Total experience in obtaining a Thai visa in Cambodia based on personal experience of the reader and reviews of people in RuNet. I decided to raise this topic because most readers already understand something what to expect in Laos, Malaysia or Myanmar. But Cambodia to most recently was not considered as a place for obtaining a Thai visa. And information on the nuances of this process, in network is not so much. I mean it is the fresh nuances that very relevant in connection with the last crackdown on all Thai embassies, starting in Moscow. For example, pay a thousand baht helped and get a visa twice as fast without availability of certain documents (as it was in 2012) you have no longer work.
The content of the article
- 1 Registration of a Thai visa in Cambodia
- 1.1 General Information
- 1.2 Consular fees, term of registration
- 1.3 Consular hours
- 1.4 List of documents for visa in Phnom Penh
- 1.5 Where to stay in Phnom Penh
- 1.6 Personal experience of one of the subscribers
- 2 On the map
Contents
Registration of a Thai visa in Cambodia
The Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh has the exact same choice. tourist visas as everywhere else: tourist one-stop and tourist multivisa. Tourist multivisa represents a lump of hassle and unimaginable sums in bills that will have to be confirmed, so I won’t even consider it in within this post. Moreover, in Cambodia it is given only Cambo citizens, or those who are able to confirm their place permanent residence in Cambodia.
Visa in Cambodia can be done only in Phnom Penh (Phnom Penh).
general information
Single entry tourist visa valid for 3 months from the date of issuance and allows the passport holder to be in Thailand for 60 days with the possibility to extend the stay for another 30 days, in total is 90 days (not three months, please note). For extension you have to go to the immigration office in place stay, from one and a half hours of your time, and 1900 baht for every passport.
Attention! At the time of this writing (February 2018) I would not recommended to “forget” about the extension of the visa to children. Now frequent cases where, due to a child’s overstay, they are denied entry family, and everything goes to the fact that they will soon begin to be fined as adult oversteers as well as children.
Consular fee, term of registration
For a tourist trip they ask for $ 40. For a multivisa – $ 200.
Pay necessarily in US dollars and without delivery, notes of 2004 and older are not accepted.
The term of registration is 2 working days (as it is written on the website of the embassy), but in fact – 3 business days. On Monday morning, passed – in the afternoon on Wednesday took. Passage Cases Accelerating Visa Passports (very often they wrote about such in the 2007-2012 reviews) more not.
That is, there are still offices in Cambodia that help to prepare and apply for a visa, but bribe they now take only the work itself and have no effect on speeding up the process. Against this background, I would recommend using the services of offices-visors, who take care of all the troubles with documents and settling customers for three days in budget accommodation.
Consulate opening hours
The schedule of holidays can seriously affect the date of registration. Thailand, so always calculate your travel dates in advance. Here is here you can see a list of official weekends in government institutions of Thailand. Embassy works with Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.
The reception of documents: from 08:30 to 11:00. In fact they can pick your nose until 9:30, until you finish all your morning business. So far this deficiency is smoothed out by a small number of visitors, but if the flow grows, it will be fun.
The time of issuance of documents: from 15:00 to 16:00. Here, too, are possible purely Thai amendments to the wind, but in general, after dinner they are already move livelier.
Consulate of Thailand in Cambodia
List of documents for visa in Phnom Penh
A burning question for beginners and experienced ones, considering how Thais like to make sudden corrections or recall overgrown moss laws with restrictions and requirements. So that requires Embassy on its website for one visa:
- Completed Visa Application form (download in advance, print and you can fill it here).
- Two photos of size 3.5 x 4.5 cm. If the pictures are old, where clearly visible difference in age – they will not accept.
- Passport with at least 6 expiration months at the time of filing.
- Copy of the passport
- Tickets to Thailand and back. And it is not stated that it should be exclusive airfare. “Travel tickets” are travel passes. documents.
- Confirmation of financial status. For a one-time $ 1000 per person, and $ 2,000 per family. How to confirm cash show or bank statement – not written.
- Confirmation of booking accommodation.
Well, then follows the postscript that the embassy officer is in the right require any document if necessary can hold interview without warning, and that money that you pay at filing a visa in case of refusal are not refundable. And now shortly about what we have in fact, from the personal experience of the author and accomplices in Runet.
- Tickets to and from Thailand are preferable to present. Avia, despite the lack of direct hints. As shows practice, land transport tickets are often not taken as travel document. And the tickets are back and require and check. on the bases, then do not require or give back. Actually, the wonderland and momentary mood.
- Do not forget to invest, and do not lose in principle important Thailand departure card. The site is not written about it, but ask at the embassy.
- A copy of the passport is usually returned at the time of submission documents. But I do not recommend not taking it with you, for their buddha knows at what point they will need these copies.
- Bank statements meanwhile check in half-eyes. That is not control calls are made to the bank (yes, there no one will be explain anything), do not find fault with the absence of live seals, and in In principle, if there are adequate numbers on the account (not three million euro and not 1000 rubles) questions on references does not arise.
- What is typical of Phnom Penh – I have not found any mention of that a family member who travels at the expense of another family member, must submit a sponsorship letter. So you can write it just in case (in English), well, and if there is someone in the embassy will hit the insight, then show.
Where to stay in Phnom Penh
- Double Leaf Boutique Hotel
- La Rose Boutique Hotel & Spa
- The frangipani living arts
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- Double Leaf Boutique Hotel
- La Rose Boutique Hotel & Spa
- The frangipani living arts
Personal experience of one of the subscribers
As it turned out, to apply for a visa was necessary account statement, and that there was money for the whole family and for entire stay And round-trip tickets, these two points. I was disturbed the most. With money, in principle, problems are not It was, except one – how to get the original extract from Moscow in Phnom Penh. Already even pondered and calculated the option with UPS, and then I decided to take a chance and printed out the document on the printer. Printer turned quality, made almost perfect color copy. To this copy I added a listing of really booked plane tickets with dates that correspond to the entry-exit from Thailand.
Money for three of us turned out 120 dollars, plus one by one photo for each person and one completed application form, more no papers were asked. I filled out the questionnaire immediately at the embassy, handed over documents somehow suspiciously quickly, and just as quickly received in due time. Obviously, the bank statement they are not can check, and if she looks convincing in appearance, then Especially carefully it does not inspect. Most likely the same with tickets, but here I can not say for sure whether they were checked or not – but the embassy has such an opportunity. ”
In general, after a thorough study of English and Russian Internet segment, I got the impression that representation in Phnom Penh is classified as hemorrhoids. Not looking at their (for the time being) sloppy attitude to verification provided proofs, it is worthwhile to come here only in the extreme cases. Not the most friendly staff, carping a passport with a long history of travel to Thailand, free to schedule work, well, stuff like that. Each trip to them is a lottery. Some write – in general, the fool slipped with a number of poddelok in documents. Others spit and cannot leave for two weeks due that did not fall in the stream with holidays or innovations, or embassy mood.
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