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Thai Visa for Polish peeps

  • 18-05-2011 1:02pm
    #1
    con1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,

    Going to Thailand in June for 3 weeks. I'm Irish and the girlfriend is Polish. Most information i found says that poles can only stay for 15 days in Thailand before they have to leave and re-enter. This is on the UK Thai Embassy website. Contacted the Thai Consulate in Dublin and they said all EU nationals are exempt from travel visa requirements if they arrive by air and stay less than 30 days. The Thai Consulate in Dublin want 40e visa fee to process my girlfriends application so she can stay 30 days. Anyone out there have any experience with a similiar situation or Thai Consulate. The girl from the Consulate seems to say yes to everything. Why does she need 40e if Poland is in the EU?

    Regards,
    Confused


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  • #2
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    con1982 wrote: »
    Hi All,

    Going to Thailand in June for 3 weeks. I'm Irish and the girlfriend is Polish. Most information i found says that poles can only stay for 15 days in Thailand before they have to leave and re-enter. This is on the UK Thai Embassy website. Contacted the Thai Consulate in Dublin and they said all EU nationals are exempt from travel visa requirements if they arrive by air and stay less than 30 days. The Thai Consulate in Dublin want 40e visa fee to process my girlfriends application so she can stay 30 days. Anyone out there have any experience with a similiar situation or Thai Consulate. The girl from the Consulate seems to say yes to everything. Why does she need 40e if Poland is in the EU?

    Regards,
    Confused

    You could always make a border run to Cambodia or Laos with her and come back to Thailand again for her to get another 15 days.


  • #3
    MyAmber.net
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭MyAmber.net


    Unfortunately not all countries treat EU members the same. That's how it is, Polish people can stay in Thailand for up to 15 days on the visa given at the airport.
    I applied for my 30 days visa in Warsaw and paid about 20e, but that was a year ago.
    You can go to Cambodia for a day as someone mentioned or I would recommend Malaysia - 3 months without a visa for Polish citizens.


  • #4
    con1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭con1982


    MyAmber.net wrote: »
    Unfortunately not all countries treat EU members the same. That's how it is, Polish people can stay in Thailand for up to 15 days on the visa given at the airport.
    I applied for my 30 days visa in Warsaw and paid about 20e, but that was a year ago.
    You can go to Cambodia for a day as someone mentioned or I would recommend Malaysia - 3 months without a visa for Polish citizens.

    I spoke with someone else in the Thai Consulate and was informed that if my gf applies for a Tourist Visa before we travel she can stay for 60days. Costs E40.

    Sent off the passport, just arrived today with a Tourist Visa stamp. The visa doesn't specify a duration..........


  • #5
    killbillvol2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭killbillvol2


    con1982 wrote: »
    I spoke with someone else in the Thai Consulate and was informed that if my gf applies for a Tourist Visa before we travel she can stay for 60days. Costs E40.

    Sent off the passport, just arrived today with a Tourist Visa stamp. The visa doesn't specify a duration..........

    Her visa is valid for 30 days, as they told you originally. Link

    No idea why Poland isn't treated the same as Ireland but that's amother issue.


  • #6
    Stinicker
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    killbillvol2 wrote: »
    Her visa is valid for 30 days, as they told you originally. Link

    No idea why Poland isn't treated the same as Ireland but that's amother issue.

    Poland was quite a difficult country to get into during Communism and I suppose the Thai Government still remembers that. Alot of Eastern European countries like Poland are still treated the same way requiring visas for countries Ireland and the British are used to sauntering into.

    In terms of Visa free access to foreign countries Ireland and Switzerland enjoy the most valuable passports in the world in terms of ease of access to other countries. The KGB and Mossad are both known to have operated under false Irish passports due to their high travel value. We really are quite lucky and I wish our Government would try and get Russia to open up to us as its one place I'd love to visit except for the whole bureaucracy of getting a visa for there is putting me off!


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