Hi there
We are intending to travel from Thailand into Malaysia during October, does anybody know if we need a VISA?? I have looked on lots of websites some say we don\'t need one, some say we need one but there is no charge, some website say we do need one.........?
Any information would be wonderful, many tkanks.
Charles
Reply to this Hi Charles,
Which passport do you have?? That's the main question...if you are from the EU, USA, Canada...the answer is no, you don't need a visa.
Have fun,
Peter
Reply to this Hi Peter
Oh that's good news, I'm from the UK. I guess that was a key piece of info I forgot to add in!!!
Thanks
Reply to this Hello Charles 😊
As far as I know UK citizens(as well as some other nationals) get free of charge tourist stamps in their passports on entering Malaysia. I am not sure how long they are valid for though. 30 days maybe. You get these stamps at the borders and at the airports. You dont need to apply for then in advance or anything.
Mel
Reply to this Hi Mel
Thanks for the information, we are sorting out our VISA'S for lots of places and I couldn't seem to get to the bottom of whether we needed one or not to enter Malaysia.
We don't need one for Singapore either do we?
Thanks
Reply to this According to my Lonely Planet book, citizens of the UK dont need visas for Singapore.
Reply to this Yeap, no visa either for Singapore. Just check the number of days, but it should be each time at least 30 days without problems.
Reply to this I read on a webiste that i have just seen that a return flight out of the country is required for Malaysia but no visa. Does anyone know much about this?
Thanks
Sharne
Reply to this They could ask for it...but it never happened to me. This rule is the official one all around Asia..funny enough...the only places where I've ever been asked to show a return ticket where US, Palau and Mauritius!
Peter
Reply to this Hi all
I am flying to thailand tomorrow, and need a pretty quick answer.
On arrival, i am aware that i receive a 30 day tourist visa. I am planning on a whirlwind trip to kuala lumpa malaysia on the 25th november for 2 days, flying from phuket thailand (im aware from the above that a visa isnt needed for malaysia!). Now will my 30 day thailand visa still be valid on the return trip to phuket on the 27th november? or will i be issued with another 30 day, or a 15 day visa?
Only going to malaysia to 'visa run' with my girlfriend, who has just crossed into thailand via the cambodia border, and was only issued a 15 day visa for thailand, so we need to head to kuala lumpa to get it extended as we are there for 29 days!
Reply to this Hello Jonny 😊
You will likely get a free of charge visa for Malaysia at the border to Malaysia. Citizens of many countries get this. But, on reentering Thailand, you will probably only get another a 15 day stamp again, rather than a 30 day one. They often change the rules, and I think this is the latest one.
Mel
Reply to this Doh, so technically i would be voiding my 30 day and replacing with a 15 day! 15 days from the 27th takes me to the 11th december, which is the day i fly home from bangkok! Its going to be tight, but looks like it might work!
Reply to this What you could also try is getting visa extensions at the immigration offices, in Thailand. It costs something, but maybe they will give you more than 15 days.
Reply to this Yeah
My girlfriend is in bangkok now and is looking into getting a visa extension fastracked, for 30 days so we can go about our month in thailand as normal. If not we will have to go back up to bangkok from surat thani come 25th november(when her visa expires)and get the new 15 day extension! Then travel back down to surat to continue with our holiday!
We have had nothing but grief with the visas! She aquired her vietnam, nepal and cambodia one last month b4 her travels, then applied for her thailand one,(shes there for more than 30 days) and the thai embassy in london england lost her passport, so she had to reapply for all the visas, bar the thailand one, and a new passport a week before her travels.
That meant a lot of travelling around england to get fastracked visas! The embassy are not refunding her either!
So you can imagine when she got to the border from cambodia this morning she wasnt best pleased that they could only issue her a 15 day visa into thailand, rather than a 30 day visa, which she would have got had she flown to bangkok rather than the 10 hour bus ride!
Reply to this There are immigration offices in more places than Bangkok. You might not need to backtrack. There might be on in Phukett or on Koh Samui.
Yeah, getting visas is always an annoying nuisance whenever they are needed.
Reply to this I dont suppose anyone knows what the penalties are if you overstay you're Malaysian visa do they?
I traveld into Malaysia to Penang from Phuket buy air and I got issed with a 90 day stamp. But as its worked out. . . . . .my 90th day lands on the same day as the Malaysian F1 GP that I have a full even ticket for.
Does anyone know if I will be ok if I left the country the next day? Thailand you get a small fine for being late but Im not sure about Malaysia?
Reply to this Maybe you can extend the visa Andrew. Or you probably only need to cross the border to Thailand or Singapore and then get a new visa on reentering Malaysia.
Reply to this Andrew, as a general rule in thed region, if you lerave the day after the stamp date on your passport, you are safe and won't be fine. Fines start the second day after only. hope this help.
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