Applying for a Thailand visa, but I don’t have a guarantor yet
I’m applying for a visa to Thailand. The visa requires:
- Purposed address in Thailand
- Name and Address of Local Guarantor
- Tel./Fax.
- Name and Address of Guarantor in Thailand
Do I 100% need a real contact in Thailand? Or can I put down a hotel name or some random organization? I'm traveling with a group and we haven't reserved a house or hotel just yet, but I'm the only one who needs a visa. Any chance my visa will get denied if they think I'm not being truthful?
Best Answer
After reading this, back in 2018, I asked a related / followup question to fully understand the guarantor thing.
This webpage of the Thai Embassy in Italy still states, among the documents required for several types of touristic visa:
- Hotel Reservation or invitation letter from the person who provides accommodation stating period of stay and full address of the accommodation. Signed copy of the accommodation provider’s identity card is also required.
I then wrote them an email and their explicit answer was:
As regards point 5), it is sufficient to present a copy of the hotel reservation.
I finally booked online my first three nights in Bangkok and attached the full address of the hostel to my visa request. Then I was in Thailand for over one month, visiting a dozen different cities and islands counrtywide but I firmly believe that - reasonably - including the address of your first stop-over is enough.
Of course all considerations apply to non-covid times but this item in the list of requirements is not really pertinent with the pandemy: other conditions may get more restrictive but not this one in particular.
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