{"id":7252,"date":"2026-09-08T03:28:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T20:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/thai-legal-news\/land-border-visa-exempt-entries-twice-per-calendar-year-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T03:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T20:32:38","slug":"land-border-visa-exempt-entries-twice-per-calendar-year-2026","status":"publish","type":"tlo_legal_news","link":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/th\/thai-legal-news\/land-border-visa-exempt-entries-twice-per-calendar-year-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Two land-border entries per calendar year: the counter does not reset on 15 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clause 3 of the new thirty-day notification limits visa-exempt entry through a designated channel of an immigration checkpoint, or at a land-border checkpoint, to <strong>not more than twice per calendar year<\/strong>. Nationals of Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Singapore are excepted, and the Minister may designate other nationalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cap itself is not new, and that is exactly what people are getting wrong this week. It carries forward into the new scheme, and it counts by <strong>\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e1b\u0e0f\u0e34\u0e17\u0e34\u0e19<\/strong>, not by scheme. Anyone who has already used two visa-exempt land entries during 2026 does not receive a fresh pair on 15 September. The counter resets on 1 January 2027, not on the day the new rules start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two details worth keeping in mind. First, the Thai wording caps entries at a designated channel of an immigration checkpoint <em>\u0e2b\u0e23\u0e37\u0e2d<\/em> a land-border checkpoint, which on its face is wider than the phrase \u201cland borders\u201d used in most reporting; in practice it has been applied to land crossings, and these notifications place no visit cap on airport arrivals. Second, the parallel fifteen-day notification for Seychelles and Mauritius carries the same twice-a-year cap but does <strong>\u0e44\u0e21\u0e48<\/strong> name Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore as exceptions. Only a nationality designated by the Minister is excepted there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Notifications of the Ministry of Interior, Royal Gazette Volume 143, Special Part 207 Ngor, 31 August 2026. More detail in our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/th\/border-runs-limits-in-thailand\/\">border runs and entry limits in Thailand<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The twice-a-year land-border cap carries into the new 30-day scheme and counts by calendar year. Using it up before 15 September does not buy a fresh pair.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":7255,"template":"","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"tlo_news_type":"royal_gazette","tlo_source_url":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/border-runs-limits-in-thailand\/","tlo_impact":"medium","tlo_effective_date":"2026-09-15","tlo_source_ref":"Royal Gazette Vol. 143, Special Part 207 Ngor, clause 3, 31 August 2026"},"tlo_news_topic":[138],"tlo_news_profile":[],"tlo_news_impact":[151],"class_list":["post-7252","tlo_legal_news","type-tlo_legal_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legal-news\/7252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legal-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tlo_legal_news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tlo_news_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tlo_news_topic?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"tlo_news_profile","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tlo_news_profile?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"tlo_news_impact","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tlo_news_impact?post=7252"}],"curies":[{"name":"\u0e14\u0e31\u0e1a\u0e40\u0e1a\u0e34\u0e25\u0e22\u0e39\u0e1e\u0e35","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}