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Old Jun 6, 2012 | 1:48 am
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Originally Posted by zhaobao
This is a million-dollar question that has not been cracked as yet.

Should you be eligible for Visa on Arrival in Thailand, but say you are connecting to a domestic flight immediately from Bangkok - per the normal procedure, you actually go through immigration (in the transit corner) in Bangkok before proceeding to catch your flight. But then, I don't recall a VOA facility at the transit immigration location. So if you are eligible for VOA, are your only options

1) Go through VOA procedure and proceed through immigration to ENTER Bangkok and go back upstairs to enter security, hence you have to buffer at least 3 hours ? or

2) Get visa BEFORE going to Thailand ?

I think this is the real question that anks329 is trying to ask at
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/thail...n-bkk-hkt.html
If you are entering the Kingdom of Thailand, and BKK is your first landing point, then you will go through immigration in BKK. It doesn't matter if Bangkok is your destination or you're going to any other domestic airport.

If you're eligible for VOA then you need to factor in the time that it might take to queue up and process that visa.

I don;t know if procuring a VOA restricts your use of transit immigration, but quite honestly heading upstairs and then back through security will not take more than 15 minutes with recent immigration lines.

The question anks329 posed was read by me in the same way it was read by transpac. Immigration will be performed in BKK but customs will be gone through once collecting bags in HKT.

Of course, if you are inclined to get a visa before departing to Thailand you don't need to worry about the VOA line.
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