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Can I do another visa run at Mae Sai with a new passport after two tourist visa runs?

Visa Rules Thailand Immigration Student Visa Visa Runs Passport Issues Mae Sai Border

Oct 28, 2019

5 years ago

Dominic *************

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Hello everybody, I need some help with my current situation.

I did 2 visa (tourist stamp) run from Chiang Mai to Mae Sai this year, in the infinite wait for my Student VISA paperwork. The limit being 2 VISA runs (on ground) per year, I then went to Vietnam and came back. It worked, they let me go in. 

My student VISA paperwork is still not ready, my stamp is finished on the 30th this month. 

Plot TWIST: In the meantime, when I did my last extension, I got a new passport, since i didn't have anymore pages in my old one. So they transferred my stamp extension in the new passport.

Question: Do you think I can do another VISA run at Mae Sai or any other borders since it's a new passport with a stamp on arrival coming from the airport, or all that doesn't change anything, I am f**ked and need to get out of country and come back by plane again? 

Here's a picture of the stamp in the new passport in question.

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TLDR : Answer Summary

The user is inquiring about the possibility of making another visa run at Mae Sai after already completing two visa runs for tourist stamps within the same year. They have recently acquired a new passport which contains a transfer of their visa stamp from the old passport. Community responses indicate that having a new passport does not reset the visa-exempt entry limit for the calendar year, which remains at two land border entries. The general consensus is that the user cannot make additional visa runs by land without consequence and may need to leave the country by air instead.

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Good luck...commenting closed

5 years ago

Dominic *************

ORIGINAL POSTER

Thank you everybody for the help you rock!

5 years ago

Bob **********

5 years ago

Dominic *************

ORIGINAL POSTER

OKAY

5 years ago

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Dominic *************

Tod *********

New passport or no you can't get more than TWO 30 day visa exempt entries by land in a calendar year. period end of story

5 years ago

Derek **********

curious how many entries visa exempt by air?

5 years ago

Dominic *************

ORIGINAL POSTER

A friend working in visa stuff just said I can get a last 7 days extension, is that true?

5 years ago

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Dominic *************

Robert *******

Strange that it already take 6 months to get you the documents to be a student at a school. No, the limit is two land border entries a calendar year using the visa exempt entry. a New passport does not reset a calendar year, you have to wait till 1 Jan and in the mean time fly out and get a visa for your stay or keep your fingers crossed and keep on using the visa exempt entry

5 years ago

Dominic *************

ORIGINAL POSTER

it's because I got a new passport, they need to change the paperwork, and before that it was long because the office that makes these type of paperwork changed location, so bad timing and bad luck for me

5 years ago

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Dominic *************

Ian ***************

"I then went to Vietnam and came back"

came back how/where?

5 years ago

Ian ***************

by air doesn't count against the limit of two visa exempt LAND entries per year

5 years ago

Dominic *************

ORIGINAL POSTER

came back by plane, from Vietnam to Chiang Mai.