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Maestro, on Yesterday, 04:26 , said:
CrankyCarrot, on 2012-05-27 22:49:20, said:
...Mario - you say you can only change passports when travelling by air. What's your source on that? Personal experience, or have you heard about other people doing it or read about it somewhere? ...
I'll answer this while Mario is offline for the night. The information is based on posts made by ThaiVisa members, mostly with reference to the border with Cambodia and Laos; don't know if there have been any about the border with Malaysia.
Put yourself into the position of the Malaysian immigration officer. A tourist comes across the land border from Thailand and presents a pristine British passport to you. No exit stamp from Thailand. Is there any reason why you should not get suspicious that this passport might be fake? It was probably part of your training as an immigration officer to look out for such irregularities.
At the very least you would have some explaining to do, as you said yourself, and this could take quite some time and your minivan might not want to wait for you. If you do try it, please report your experience here after your return.
this matches with my experiernce. Tried once to leave Thailand in Nongkhai with passport A and enter Laos with passport B, as Lao visa for passport A is more expensive.
After submitting visa application with passport B, I was called back and questioned about lack of Thai exit stamp. Long story short, I had to fill out another visa application, submit passport A and pay more money.
