NO more 15/30 day visa exempt crossing thai/Cambodia border

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NO more 15/30 day visa exempt crossing thai/Cambodia border

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Used to be the quickest trip for those in Bangkok/ Pattaya to get another 15 or 30 days ( for G7 passport holders)

Prehaps more fallout after the bombing suspect fled to Cambodia.
Breaking News! Every Thai-Cambodian border check point and Kanchanaburi border check point will not stamp, for the time being, 15 or 30 day visa waiver stamp, effective 12th September 2015 onwards. People with valid Multiple Entry Thai Visa have no problem, it is OK to activate your second or third entry of a Tourist Visa or a valid Multiple Entry Non Immigrant Visa.
This is from ThaiVisaService.
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/855 ... te-effect/

So Thailand is saying;

Get a visa or don't come by land
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The latest rumour is that the Thais have sealed all borders and will commence rounding up all non-Thais for placement in interment camps commencing tomorrow after breakfast.

Apparently, the only way out now is on an international flight, if you can manage to book one.

Any truth to this?
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What do you mean@?

It's essential to get a Cambodian visa now, before entering? Or need to get Thai visa? Brittish never need a visa to enter Thailand up to 4 weeks as far as i know.
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for now, if ur traveling overland to Thailand from Cambodia
they are NOT issuing visa exempt stamps except to "REAL" ( whatever that means) tourists

More about it it here and possible reason why they have done this;

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Foreign workers and tourists who use the country’s visa exempt entry provisions are the unwitting victims in a high-stakes blame game being played out in the wake of the Erawan shrine bombing on August 17.

On Saturday morning Thailand border crossings along the Cambodia border, along with the Phu Nam Ron/ Htee Khee border crossing at Kanchanaburi crossing into Myanmar abruptly stopped allowing people to enter Thailand using the visa exempt entry method with some reportedly also not allowing people to depart and return (out-in border hop) to activate second- or multiple-entry visas of any class.

Thailand has six land crossing with Cambodia – Ban Pakard/ Phsa Prum, Ban Laem/ Daun Lem, Chong Sa Ngam/ Anlong Veng, Chong Jom/ O Smach, Hat Lek/ Ko Kong and Aranyaprathet/ Poipet – and all are said to be affected, with local variations as to who can enter and who can not

.....As of Sunday, September 13 Thailand land border crossings at Phu Nam Ron and Ban Pakard, were refusing to admit people using the visa exempt entry method or people attempting to do an in-out visa hop, while the Thai border crossing at Aranyaprathet and Hat Lek were reported to be allowing bona fide tourists to enter using the visa exempt entry method, but were refusing reentry to people with multiple entry visas.
http://aecnewstoday.com/2015/bomber-bla ... z3lgAQWO5z

Nothing to do with Cambodian visa
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Crazy stuff. The Thai Military were moaning about bribes, but how they can stop people from 'legally' entering their country sounds, well, illegal!

I'm guessing it's Erewan related, capture bombers related, and will soon 'blow over'. :lol: :facepalm:
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All they're saying is - come from Cambodia? Need a visa. They're entitled to do that any time they like. Want a visa waiver? Fly. Given that Air Asia now covers this as a reasonable price, it's not the end of the world. The only people really inconvenienced are those who are declined a visa and those who rely on $10 bus journeys for cross-country travel. The Thai government couldn't give a **** about either group.
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this just in from visa run company
All border check point with Thai-Cambodia will stamp only People with
valid visa. No OUT/IN for any nationality.
Kanchanaburi still refuse to accept travelers even with valid visa.

But Thai-Laos border it is still "Business as usual".
Even though flights are cheap (to me) $150 r/t to do that once/month ( + $30 for a the visa) is way out of most peoples budget if they want to stay in Thailand,

There are many many that live near the border and do monthly easy visa runs .... no more..
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phuketrichard wrote:this just in from visa run company
All border check point with Thai-Cambodia will stamp only People with
valid visa. No OUT/IN for any nationality.
Kanchanaburi still refuse to accept travelers even with valid visa.

But Thai-Laos border it is still "Business as usual".
Even though flights are cheap (to me) $150 r/t to do that once/month ( + $30 for a the visa) is way out of most peoples budget if they want to stay in Thailand,

There are many many that live near the border and do monthly easy visa runs .... no more..
But those are precisely the people that a middle-income nation like Thailand will not miss. If they haven't had the nous to work out how to get a job with a visa or signed up for an ED-visa program... they're not the people Thailand wants to retain. And most people get a 60-day visa for Thailand with an extra 30 days for just asking for it at immigration and paying a small fee. If you can't afford the $600 + $120 + $120 a year for that? You probably shouldn't be there at all.
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IF UR NOT Near a thai border the best bet if ur under 50, not working an do not want to learn anything is the
double entry tourist visa available in Vientiane or Savankhet Laos

Cost $80 for double entry
after each 60 days visa is about to expire get an incountry extension for 1,900 baht ($53) good for 30 days
so to stay for 6 month would cost you. $186 + travel expenses for a visa run to the border once
and expenses for travel to get the visa and hotel for one night in Laos.

2x /year say around $500-$550/year
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TheGrinchSR wrote:All they're saying is - come from Cambodia? Need a visa. They're entitled to do that any time they like. Want a visa waiver? Fly. Given that Air Asia now covers this as a reasonable price, it's not the end of the world. The only people really inconvenienced are those who are declined a visa and those who rely on $10 bus journeys for cross-country travel. The Thai government couldn't give a **** about either group.
You are forgetting SHV/SR expats that drive their own transport to Thailand, it will become a very inconvenient trip.
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