Non-immigrant multi-entry visa -- Category "O"

Post by **HansMartin** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:04 pm

Does anyone have experience with this type of visa. It is a multi-entry visa for visiting family.

My wife is Thai, but a US citizen traveling on a US passport. I have an opportunity to work on Guam while I park my wife at our house in BKK. I will be going back and forth regularly and spending less than 30 days in Thailand, but she wants to stay and visit her family in Thailand. She has a large family so this is not a scam.

Any + or - to this option.

Spitfire · Post by **Spitfire** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:23 pm

HansMartin wrote:I have an opportunity to work on Guam while I park my wife at our house in BKK.

Funny!

New one on me.

Sure Lomuamart will be around soon regarding the question.

Post by **lomuamart** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:44 pm

The multi-entry Non Imm O is a perfectly valid visa. Once issued, it will be valid for a year. On your first entry to Thailand, you'll be given a 90 day permitted to stay stamp. Before that expires, you must leave the country and re-enter, getting a further 90 days. You can do this as many times as you want - as long as the visa is still valid. If you depart say one day before the visa expires, you'll get an additional entry of 90 days, thus making the visa work for almost 15 months.
You don't have to worry about arriving at the airport. Land crossings will give the 90 days as well.
Your wife is in an unusual situation is as much as she's Thai but traveling on a US passport - otherwise she wouldn't need any visa. I can't imagine she'll have any difficulty getting the multi-entry. I'm afraid I can't advise you on Thai missions in the US, but generally The Embassy are more strict about issuing them (married to a Thai - but your wife is Thai - or applying on the basis of retirement). Consulates, especially honourary consulates, are less strict and certainly in the UK this type of visa is easy to obtain on the basis of visiting family and friends.
I think Houston is regarded as being user-friendly, but as said, don't treat that as gospel.
The benefit of the visa is the 15 months stay it can give you. The downside is having to leave the country every 90 days. Still, if your missus dosn't mind a day trip to Aranya Prathet and over to Cambodia every now and then, it won't be a problem.

Post by **PeteC** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:52 pm

The Honolulu honourary consulate is very visa friendly. Pete

Post by **STEVE G** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:10 pm

A good friend of mine manages to get multi-entry O visas easily enough in England, on the basis of marriage to a Thai, to enable him to do long visits in the manner that you describe.
If you can get it as an Englishman, I would have thought a Thai-American would have no problem.

Post by **pinky** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:28 pm

Getting a non imm o mulitple entry is no problem, especially if you use Hull. We used to have to state 'visiting friends or family' to qualify.. but they have now added 'extended stay' to the list. Which seems to be a step in the right direction. This obviously applies to the UK, but dont think you will have any problem.

Spitfire · Post by **Spitfire** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:57 pm

I have also heard that there is a consulate in Cardiff and it's supposed to be friendly like Hull. Not 100% sure about it but have heard things along those lines.

Do you know anything Lomuamart, or anyone else, about it?

Post by **lomuamart** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:09 pm

spitfire,
I think that's correct. There are also honourary consulates in Birmingham and Liverpool, I think.
Ah, here we go:
http://www.guidetothailand.com/thailand ... europe.php
and for the OP:
http://www.guidetothailand.com/thailand ... ericas.php

Post by **chopsticks** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:01 pm

Seems as if these honorary consulates have some historic links with shipping and ports from many years ago - which would explain their locations in Liverpool, Hull and Cardiff (not sure about Birmingham though !). and just consist of an assistant at a desk in a solicitor's office etc. Convenient though, as avoids the need to go the main embassy.

Post by **hhfarang** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:58 pm

I went to one of those honorary consulates in Miami for my original O A longstay (retirement) visa and it was like that. It was just a person working part time out of a law office.

They just took my application, checked to make sure everything was there and sent it to the main Thai embassy in Washington D.C. for processing. Three or four weeks later they gave me a call and said it was ready.

Post by **Paderborn** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:05 am

The Thai Consulate in Liverpool takes some finding..... If it is still the same
It was a wooden post box mounted on a wall in a very high class Jewellery Shop, on the main shopping street.
We went along a few years ago expecting to find a person behing a desk, but only found rows & rows of wedding rings etc.

Does anyone know if you can get a same day multi entry O visa in Liverpool?
We had no poblems getting one in Hull earlier this year.
Cheers Paderborn

Post by **Big Boy** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:05 am

spitfire wrote:I have also heard that there is a consulate in Cardiff and it's supposed to be friendly like Hull. Not 100% sure about it but have heard things along those lines.

Do you know anything Lomuamart, or anyone else, about it?

I've always had good service from Cardiff

Post by **HansMartin** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:53 am

Thanks

Seems like an ideal solution. Although Hull, Cardiff, and Liverpool probably won't work.

One time we had to get an immediate extension to a Thai passport. My wife called ahead to the LA Consulate. Then flew from SFO to LAX, somehow found the consulate and flew back that night with everything resolved.

No way a farang could have done that one.

Post by **PeteC** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:03 pm

HansMartin wrote:Thanks

Seems like an ideal solution. Although Hull, Cardiff, and Liverpool probably won't work.

One time we had to get an immediate extension to a Thai passport. My wife called ahead to the LA Consulate. Then flew from SFO to LAX, somehow found the consulate and flew back that night with everything resolved.

No way a farang could have done that one.

Honolulu may fit for you Hans. If you're going to Guam and wife with you, you'll stop there first, then on to Guam, then wife can go Guam-Manila on Continental then Thai has one or two non-stops a day Manila to Bangkok.

Anyway, the Honolulu consulate is a small office so best to email them first as to what you want them to do. You can find their location and contact details on Google. Pete

Post by **HansMartin** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:23 am

Last time I went over in Feb., one of my associates went from SFO-HNL-GUM. He went United/Continetal and his rt fare was $2000.

I went SFO-NRT-BKK-MNL-GUM. I went on United/Phillipinnes and the air fare was $1350--go figure. Of course this only works if you can stop in BKK. My wife and I have a house there so it works. So I "park" her there and go to GUM or HH for that matter. She is not a beach person.

Of course, she "parks'"me at home in CA when she goes off to the local Inidan casinos with her girlfriends as I am not a casino persons.

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