Welcome to Thailandblog.nl
With 275.000 visits per month, Thailandblog is the largest Thailand community in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Sign up for our free e-mail newsletter and stay informed!
Newsletter
Language setting
Rate Thai Baht
Sponsor
Latest comments
- Rudolf: Quote: What are the current estimated costs of building a house per m². That just depends on what kind of requirements you meet
- Johnny B.G: In the 50s-80s/90s, Dutch regularly grown food also contained poison and yet there are 20% elderly people in the Netherlands and in TH that is also the case.
- Johnny B.G: The interpreter bases himself on a number of sources, but there is of course much more to it. In Isaan since 50-60 years ago r
- rob: On average I stay in Thailand 6 to 8 months a year and enjoy the food there every day. I will never, ever be told
- Eric Kuypers: Robert, do you know how big the Isaan is? Say NL three times, so it makes sense if you give a little bit of direction like the pro
- RonnyLatYa: Yes, I say that Kanchanaburi is just an example and that you can change that. You can also do this on the web page itself and then see
- william-korat: In the dry period the line is bottom of Bangkok and lower and east of that to just above Khao Yai National Park usually we
- Eric Kuypers: If you change the command line, such as https://www.iqair.com/thailand/nong-khai, you will get a different city or region. But you
- Cornelis: Well, GeertP, I am absolutely not a 'Brussels sprouts supporter' or THE Red Brand addict, but that does not mean that I don't like the Thai cuisine.
- Rudolf: It depends on what you are looking for in Thailand, but to be honest you don't have much choice in my opinion. The big cities are falling apart
- RonnyLatYa: Also take a look at this. https://www.iqair.com/thailand/kanchanaburi Also scroll down a bit and they will also give you some explanation
- Peter (editor): I also enjoy the Thai food and yes, the price is very attractive. But it's just a fact that Thai farmers are unbelievable
- Jacks: It is best to go in the period November to February. Someone with asthma should absolutely not come here from March to May
- GeertP: Dear Ronald, I completely agree with your story, I also enjoy Thai cuisine every day and even after 45 years of Thai
- Eric Kuypers: Wilma, bad air is not in all of Thailand. Thailand is more than 12x the Netherlands! These are the big cities (traffic) and some
Sponsor
Bangkok again
Menu
Arrivals Bangkok Airport
DOSSIERS
Learning objectives and topics
- Background
- Activities
- Advertorial
- Agenda
- Tax question
- Belgium question
- Sights
- Bizarre
- Buddhism
- Book reviews
- Column
- Corona crisis
- The Culture
- Diary
- Dating
- The week of
- Dossier
- To dive
- Economy
- A day in the life of…..
- Islands
- Food and drink
- Events and festivals
- Balloon Festival
- Bo Sang Umbrella Festival
- Buffalo races
- Chiang Mai Flower Festival
- Chinese New Year
- Full Moon Party
- Christmas
- Lotus Festival – Rub Bua
- Loy Krathong
- Naga Fireball Festival
- New Years Eve celebration
- Phi ta khon
- Phuket Vegetarian Festival
- Rocket festival – Bun Bang Fai
- Songkran – Thai New Year
- Fireworks Festival Pattaya
- Expats and retirees
- state pension
- Car insurance
- Banking
- Tax in the Netherlands
- Thailand tax
- Belgian Embassy
- Belgian tax authorities
- Proof of life
- DigiD
- emigrate
- To rent a house
- Buy a house
- In memoriam
- Income statement
- King's day
- Cost of living
- Dutch embassy
- Dutch government
- Dutch Association
- News
- Passing away
- Passport
- Retirement
- Drivers license
- Distributions
- Elections
- Insurance in general
- Visa
- work
- Hospital
- Health insurance
- Flora and fauna
- Photo of the week
- Gadgets
- Money and finance
- History
- Health
- Charities
- Hotels
- Looking at houses
- Isaan
- Khan Peter
- Koh Mook
- King Bhumibol
- Living in Thailand
- Reader Submission
- Reader call
- Reader tips
- Reader question
- Society
- marketplace
- Medical tourism
- Environment
- Nightlife
- News from the Netherlands and Belgium
- News from Thailand
- Entrepreneurs and companies
- Education
- Research
- Discover Thailand
- Opinions
- Remarkable
- Calls
- Floods 2011
- Floods 2012
- Floods 2013
- Floods 2014
- Winter prices
- Politics
- Poll
- Travel stories
- Travel
- Organizations
- Shopping
- Social media
- Spa & wellness
- Sport
- Cities
- Position of the week
- The beach
- Language
- For sale
- TEV procedure
- Thailand in general
- Thailand with children
- thai tips
- Thai massage
- Tourism
- Going out
- Currency – Thai Baht
- From the editors
- Real estate law; and
- Traffic and transport
- Visa Short Stay
- Long stay visa
- Visa question
- Flight tickets
- Question of the week
- Weather and climate
Sponsor
Disclaimer translations
Thailandblog uses machine translations in multiple languages. Use of translated information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for errors in translations.
Read our full here disclaimer.
Royalty
© Copyright Thailandblog 2024. All rights reserved. Unless stated otherwise, all rights to information (text, image, sound, video, etc.) that you find on this site rest with Thailandblog.nl and its authors (bloggers).
Whole or partial takeover, placement on other sites, reproduction in any other way and/or commercial use of this information is not permitted, unless express written permission has been granted by Thailandblog.
Linking and referring to the pages on this website is permitted.
Home » Reader question » Reader question: Can I remove old visa stickers from my passport?
Dear readers,
I live in Thailand and need to renew my passport. Not because that passport has expired, must actually renew passport before 02-09-2015, but because it is full of visa stickers for Cambodia. But now some stickers are peeling off.
Can I remove these stickers so that new visa stickers can replace them or do I have to apply for a new passport?
Thanks in advance,
Geert
As far as I can tell, it is illegal to change anything in your passport yourself. You can get into real trouble with that. I would call the embassy to inquire about this if I were you.
That strikes me as a special link. Suppose all those visas are registered in a database and your next application shows that you have removed visa stickers from your passport. I wouldn't take that risk. And what are you actually going to lose financially? Another six months to go is a loss of a few tens at the most.
I advise against it.
Call the Dutch embassy in Bangkok, ask the question and post the answer here as well.
Geert, why not put a packing tape over it or some glue underneath to glue them back?
You live in Thailand, so they are probably old visas for Cambodia that are no longer valid.
As soon as you have a new Dutch passport, I don't think anyone will look at old visas for Cambodia anymore, they will not be included in your new Dutch passport. Or am I overlooking something here?
Nico B
No that is not allowed. The passport is the property of the State of the Netherlands. You are not allowed to make any changes to it yourself, including removing VISA. Leave it as it is. It's punishable. Your passport CAN be taken and you really have the dolls dancing. So don't. As said, go to the Dutch embassy. Very simple right. For example, may I make notes in your borrowed book. I don't like you. Neither does your passport!!
You are not allowed to modify your passport. But of course you can't do anything about what spontaneously falls out!
I have a few lines to complete, so please wait for the answer.
Can you pick out the stickers?
Short answer: NO.
Visa stickers are part of the passport, and you are not allowed to take anything out of it, attach it, tear out leaves, and so on.
You are not allowed to make any changes to your passport yourself
there must be at least 1 blank page in your passport for a new visa application
passport must be valid for another 15 months when applying for a new annual visa for Thailand. At 2 Sept. so you don't get that anymore.
If you travel often, apply for a business passport or a second passport. There are options for that.
Morning Ko,
We got a new retirement visa at the end of May and our passport must be renewed before 09-10-2014.
So that's only 5 months.
The immigration officer reminded us not to forget to renew everything.
So who knows can say it.
And now that the passport is valid for 10 years, I advise anyone who goes out of the country a lot to take a passport with more pages, otherwise you won't even make it to 10 years.
Normally 25-30 I thought, but then about double.
I don't know the exact numbers, but one can easily find out.
Asia loves stamps and stickers.
Just look at the immigration burros.
LOUISE
Louise, I don't know the details yet, but it seems to be possible that when applying for a new passport you can also tick ... business. Then you get a passport with a double number of pages, otherwise the passport would be exactly the same as the private passport. That would pretty much solve the problem. If anyone knows this and has experience with this I'd love to hear it.
Nico B
Louise, my passport expires in mid-2016. In Hua Hin I was informed a few weeks ago that next time I cannot get a 1-year visa, but only until the expiry of my passport and was advised to apply in 2015 (for applying for a new annual visa) to apply for a new passport. New passport, new visa! Anyway, a lot is possible in this country. Have you checked until when your visa is valid? You now run the risk of having to pay 1900 baht twice within a few months. Of course you get your visa but is it also for 1 year?
No, have you not yet noticed that people always stamp the visa stamp a little over the edge…., that was done to avoid what you want to do, so there are traces of it !! Glue it down with a dry glue stick and it's ok again, otherwise we would all be able to continue with our Visas in SEAsia for a very long time, and daddy will of course miss income.
Do you also have a question about the first single page after the ID page, which is never used for visas, but may be used in an emergency, for example, or a departure stamp on it ….?
@David H
Regarding your question (and as far as a Belgian passport is concerned)
The page 3 (after the plastic page) appears empty, but it is not.
This page contains examples of some of the security details that are included in the passport, and which they advise you to check.
So it is not a visa page.
The word is on the pages that may be used for visas, stamps or other comments
“visas”. Those are pages 5 to 30 on a regular passport.
Of course, if an authorized official puts a stamp on page 3, it is not your fault…..
@Geert (questioner)
The last page of a Belgian passport states that only an authorized official may make changes to it.
But even without that note, it's never a good idea to make changes to a passport, remove stickers, or make repairs. even if it is with the best intentions.
So I wouldn't put tape over it either, because it will almost certainly raise questions about what's underneath and whether you want to hide anything. It may take a while before you pass through immigration.
Tip – I don't know where you live, so maybe it's too far away for you, but recently I made a visa run from Bangkok to Htee Khee (Myanmar) This is not far from Kanchanaburi.
You will not get a visa pasted or stamped in your passport from Myanmar like in Laos and Cambodia.
Only Arrival/Departure stamps are received from the immigration posts Htee Khee and Kanchanaburi.
This way you save the visa pages, especially now that the passports remain valid for 10 years.
I made a little report of it.
You can read this in my response to the article below.
https://www.thailandblog.nl/expats-en-pensionado/visa/ervaringen-met-een-visa-run-vanuit-bangkok/
Perhaps to consider if it is practically feasible from your place of residence.
@RonnyLatPhrao, sorry, I miswrote myself a bit, I meant right page 5 (the few with the left "comments from competent authorities" ) which always remains unused, understand that people prefer not to place visa stickers there, but may / can this page in an emergency as a last resort ? For example for simple in & outs, for example if your passport would be full ..; (is not applicable for me because I already renew a small number of pages long before the expiration date), but it is good to know as an extreme emergency solution.
If you look again in BE. manages to get a government on its feet…..and it also starts working, and ratifies the new approved laws, then our passport would also be valid for 10 years, provided that an intermediate solution “à la Belge” is Could. decides to temporarily increase it to 7 years, this was answered by the person who submitted this bill. (Guido De padt)…..de “à la Belge” of course not, that is my added sarcasm, why we BE. just don't do what our neighboring countries NL & UK have recently adjusted to make their passports valid for 10 years, my additional question to his services at the time was also why a multi-page passport must be so incredibly expensive, could it also be done as a normal application? be treated….without that urgent TAX, we expats “devour” namely pages to meet the standards!