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[ALFREDO]

Europe
Countries and Territories Entry Rights Albania Along with a valid Schengen visa Andorra Along with a valid Schengen visa Kosovo 90 days Russia 30 days
[edit]Oceania
Countries and Territories Entry Rights Cook Islands 31 days Fiji 4 months Federated States of Micronesia 30 days New Zealand Unrestricted residence and employment rights, provided holding Australian Permanent Resident Visa Palau 30-day visa issued upon arrival for US$50 Samoa 60 days Solomon Islands 3 months Tuvalu 1-month visa issued upon arrival (free of charge) Vanuatu 30 days

[shawndoc]

NewlyMintedThai, on 2012-02-28 23:10:43, said:

Interesting.  My girlfriend and I traveled to Oaxaca from the US and they were very careful to check her Mexican visa.

If you walk across the border into Tijuana there's no immigration check at all.  Just stroll through a one-way revolving gate and you're in Mexico.  There's several small buildings there, I'm sure you're supposed to stop at one of them, but there were no obvious signs, ques, gates, or official looking people standing outside any of them.  I was on the streets of TJ before I knew it, and didn't feel like going back to see if there was some place I was supposed to check in first.

[yougivemebaby]

So what are the visa requirements for an American and Thai gf to get into Japan?

[cardholder]

Anyone have personal experience of a Thai traveling to Myanmar ?

[NewlyMintedThai]

cardholder, on 2012-03-27 23:17:15, said:

Anyone have personal experience of a Thai traveling to Myanmar ?

Yes, visa required like everyone else (unless you are talking about a border day pass).  Any travel agent can arrange it for you with no need to go to the Myanmar Embassy yourself.

[NewlyMintedThai]

yougivemebaby, on 2012-03-27 21:37:52, said:

So what are the visa requirements for an American and Thai gf to get into Japan?

No requirement at all for an American.

Stringent requirements on par with US, UK, etc. for Thais.

[ALFREDO]

So the nearest you can bring your GF to Central Europe or England, without a Visa, is the nice country of -Kosovo- LoL.

[NewlyMintedThai]

I think I'd rather go to Kosovo than England.

Edited by NewlyMintedThai, 2012-03-29 17:50:34.

[Tomtomtom69]

Border passes can only be used for a day or sometimes 3 days but not further than the border province. So a passport is required for a Thai to travel (legally) to Phnom Penh even though there are no internal checkpoints. I have travelled by taxi between Poipet and Phnom Penh/Bavet (for Vietnam) many times and it would theoretically be possible to bypass the need for a passport but I am not sure if Thais can even use border passes there (Poipet) but may require passports anyway (to go past the casino zone). In any case, passports are always better since there are no restrictions on travel and in the case of Laos and Cambodia where no visas are required for short stays, border passes cost money and time to make and are only valid for a short time and restricted area. I went with 3 Thai friends to Vientiane 2 years ago and one of them had a passport that was nearly expired so was refused exit from Thailand and forced to get a border pass for 120Baht that took an hour to process. A photograph was also required and this delayed our short trip significantly.

[Tomtomtom69]

BTW some countries that require visas from Thais generally don't present much more of a problem than countries that don't demand visas. For example, I have never heard of the Chinese embassy refusing to issue a visa to a Thai. Similarly, the Myanmar Embassy would issue a visa to all Thais except the small number of people that are known to be anti-Myanmar government or have some sort of other politically sensitive agenda. In other words, Thais can go everywhere without a problem except Japan, Australia/NZ (up until 1996 they could still travel to NZ visa free but not anymore), USA/Canada and western Europe (Schengen zone and UK/Ireland),

[NewlyMintedThai]

Passports are currently required for Thai nationals to cross the Cambodian border at Poipet.

[NewlyMintedThai]

Tomtomtom69, on 2012-05-06 00:19:45, said:

BTW some countries that require visas from Thais generally don't present much more of a problem than countries that don't demand visas. For example, I have never heard of the Chinese embassy refusing to issue a visa to a Thai. Similarly, the Myanmar Embassy would issue a visa to all Thais except the small number of people that are known to be anti-Myanmar government or have some sort of other politically sensitive agenda. In other words, Thais can go everywhere without a problem except Japan, Australia/NZ (up until 1996 they could still travel to NZ visa free but not anymore), USA/Canada and western Europe (Schengen zone and UK/Ireland),

Add Israel to that list, also Mexico.

[homelyboy]

Tomtomtom69, on 2012-05-06 00:19:45, said:

For example, I have never heard of the Chinese embassy refusing to issue a visa to a Thai.

Yeah. I'm now trying to help my friend to arrange a transit visa for Ukraine (just to have a good sleep in hotel during a 14-hour layover in Kyiv), and can't even simply reach them over the telephone.