Topic: multiple entry visas

[teechaa]

advised by my Thai Consulate office that only TEACHERS would no longer be issued mulitple entry visas.

[hero]

Which consulate?

[los_teacher]

that's a ridiculous policy if true.   what the heck would be the rationale?

[teechaa]

The Thai consulate in Ottawa, Canada...ridiculous you say!  let me think!  rationale!  hmmmm!

[bomha]

maybe this is just a technicality, but isn't the Thai MFA office in Ottawa the embassy, rather than a consulate?

[teechaa]

well to get it straight, I applied at Thai consulate office in my city, they in turn phoned what I thought was Ottawa but could have been Vancouver, regardless that is the information that they received just hours before my application....so it was turned down.

[hero]

A friend of mine very recently got a multiple-entry non-imm-B in the UK - last week or something.  Thai Consulates in the UK are very liberal at handing out visas, the embassy in London not so!

OP - have you successfully obtained a multiple-entry visa in the Ottawa embassy before?

[teechaa]

my wife was issued one in my city...not Ottawa...I have always got mine in Thailand...I have to go back to the Consulate on the 2nd will check further.  ....."last week or something"  What does that mean?

[bomha]

Some of the more lenient consulates in the USA will let you send your passport by express courier like FedEx.  I'd suggest you phone a couple of honorary consulates.  Maybe in the prairie provinces?

[teechaa]

That is where I am...they are the ones who told me...

[Johnny Rotten]

Nearly all Thai consulates/embassies include the phrase "we may request further documents..." on their official websites with regard to a non-imm application. Some don't request though(most of us know which ones) and some do (obviously Ottawa). Stick with the ones who don't - simple.

You can pm me for the ones that don't in the UK, USA and Australia. Don't know a 'nice' one in Canada.

[hero]

A lot of sketchy information in this thread - it almost seems like a "guess the city" thing to be honest....

my wife was issued one in my city...not Ottawa...

....would it not be easier if you just told us where you tried to get a visa and exactly what they said?

[teechaa]

sounds like you have me on trial here....Edmonton, returned to the consulate there yesterday and was told by a very nice lady that they have now recieved "official" notificatiion that "teachers" were no longer eligible for multiple-entry visas.  This was received from the embassy in Ottawa.   Don't blame the messenger!

[hero]

Nobody's on trial mate.  It just would have been easier if you had come here and said: "I applied for a non-Imm B visa at Edmonton and was refused.  Does anyone know where I might be able to get one?"



At the risk of repeating myself, is this a new situation?  Have you been able to obtain one at Edmonton in the past?  Have the rules changed?  Did they offer you an alternative visa?  Did they suggest to you an alternative course of action?

Like I said, nobody is on trial - but these forums are designed for us to share information.



For the record, as I mentioned earlier - a friend of mine was able to obtain one at the Royal Thai Consulate in Hull in the latter half of December.  I appreciate this doesn't help your cause, but it suggests that it isn't a global policy shift.

[teechaa]

I first applied and was refused Dec 20... are you suggesting that only teachers from Edmonton cannot get multiple entries?  Yes we have received one here before as I previously stated. I, this time, planned to enter with plain tourist visa as work doesn't start until March.  Stay in Thailand for a month, then leave, go another country for a month then back on plain tourist visa.  However, usually I buy round-trip tickets but they would expire before my contract is up so only purchased one-way.  Now if you check on website you have to have tickets out of the country so we had to purchase at $40 each, tourist visas stamped in our book.  The school will deal with my non-imig "B" visa then.  The Thai consulate assured me that no teachers would recieve multple-entry visas anymore.  I guess you should check with the embassies or consulates or whatever, this is the information that I have recieved from them as strange as it may seem.

For the record, as I mentioned earlier - a friend of mine was able to obtain one at the Royal Thai Consulate in HULL ? in the latter half of December.  I appreciate this doesn't help your cause, but it suggests that it isn't a global policy shift.

Hull...Quebec?..
A friend of mine very recently got a multiple-entry non-imm-B in the UK - last week or something.  Thai Consulates in the UK are very liberal at handing out visas, the embassy in London not so!

[hero]

are you suggesting that only teachers from Edmonton cannot get multiple entries?

Nope.  Merely mentioning that folk in other parts of the world certainly can!  Those in the know would have told you that the UK, Australia and USA are "friendlier" than Canada in terms of dishing out non-Imm-B visas.  But that is quite irrelevant to you, however others may find the info useful

I am sure that you are aware that the rules change from consulate to consulate and even from day to day.  Have you checked out the thread on converting a tourist visa to a non-imm-B visa - that seems to be a very doable course of action for those with problems getting a non-imm-B the old way.

http://www.teflwatch.org/forum/index.php/topic,335.0.html