Tourist Visas (TR)
Current · Last updated 03/10/2026
Key facts
- The visa gives you
- TR1: single entry within 3 months, or multiple entry within 6 months
- Stamped on arrival
- 60 days
- Evidence needed
- No bank balance set — a booking and proof of accommodation instead
- Fees in Thailand, first year
- 1,900 THB plus the embassy's visa fee
- Staying longer
- Up to 60 days on each entry, plus one extension of up to 30 days at an immigration office. The single-entry visa is one such stay. The multiple-entry visa is valid 6 months: you leave and come back on it as often as you need while it is valid, so it can cover about half a year.
- Medium risk
- Tourism only, no work. On the multiple-entry visa every re-entry is the immigration officer's decision.
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Who can apply
Anyone coming as a tourist who cannot, or does not want to, use visa-exempt entry. In practice that means one of three situations: your passport is not on the exemption lists, the 30 days the exemption gives you is not enough, or your purpose falls into one of the specific categories below. TR1 — ordinary tourism and leisure. This is what most people mean by "tourist visa". TR2 — participants in the MICE industry, meaning meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions, supported by the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau. Period of stay 60 days. TR3 — recreational learning or training: scuba diving, boxing training, Thai massage training, Thai culinary courses. Period of stay 60 days. Longer or more formal study belongs under the education categories instead. TR4 — visiting family residing in Thailand, for less than 60 days. A longer stay with family moves to the Non-Immigrant O categories. TR5 — medical treatment lasting less than 60 days. Longer treatment also moves to Non-Immigrant O. TR6 — football trial. Period of stay 60 days. TR7 — Filipino holders of ordinary passports, for a stay of no longer than 59 days.
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Current requirements
TR1 and TR7 are issued either single entry, with three months' visa validity, or multiple entry, with six months' validity. Every other TR category is single entry with three months' validity. The distinction that catches people out: visa validity is the window in which you may enter Thailand, not how long you may stay. A three-month single-entry TR1 does not mean three months in the country — it means you must arrive within three months, and your period of stay is set separately when you are admitted. For every TR category, the period of stay granted on arrival is up to 60 days. Every TR category requires financial evidence of no less than 20,000 THB: bank statements covering the last three months, with a closing balance at or above that figure and issued within one month of applying, or a sponsorship letter. This is far lower than the Non-Immigrant categories, where thresholds start at 30,000 THB, but it is not nothing. Approval is never automatic. The embassy or consulate may ask for an interview or further documents, and the fee is not refunded if the application is refused.
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Documents you need
Common to every TR category: the biodata page of your passport or travel document, a photograph taken within the last six months, a document indicating your current location, a travel booking confirmation, proof of accommodation in Thailand — a hotel booking, or an invitation letter from family or friends there — and financial evidence of no less than 20,000 THB, shown as a bank statement covering the last three months or a sponsorship letter. TR1 needs nothing beyond that list. TR2 adds a letter from the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau. TR3 adds a letter of acceptance from the institute or company organising the activity — the dive school, the Muaythai gym, the cookery course. TR4 adds the personal details of your family in Thailand: ID card, or passport with the visa page or stay permit. TR5 adds a letter of appointment from the hospital or medical centre. TR6 adds a letter from the football club. TR7 needs only the common list.
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What it costs
The application fee is set by each embassy and consulate in its own currency, so there is no single worldwide figure — check the fee page of the mission handling your application. The published structure distinguishes a single-entry tourist visa from a multiple-entry one, the latter costing more. Payment is made inside the e-Visa system by Visa or Mastercard, and the fee is non-refundable whatever the outcome. Beyond the visa fee itself, the only amount to budget for is the 20,000 THB financial evidence requirement covered under Documents — far lower than the Non-Immigrant categories, where thresholds start at 30,000 THB and run into the millions, but not nothing. Two figures the Immigration Bureau does publish in baht, for once you are in Thailand rather than applying from abroad: extending a stay costs 1,900 THB, and a re-entry permit — which you need if you leave and come back without losing your permission to stay — costs 1,000 THB for a single entry or 3,800 THB for multiple. Approval and the length of any extension granted are at the officer's discretion.
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Where to apply
Through Thailand's official e-Visa system at thaievisa.go.th, to the Thai embassy or consulate covering where you live. Apply before you travel. A tourist visa cannot be obtained on arrival — the only at-the-border option is Visa on Arrival, which exists for three nationalities only and is a different thing entirely. Allow time, but not too much. The mission may request an interview or additional documents, and since the visa's validity is a window for entry rather than a period of stay, applying too early can mean the window closes before you fly.
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Most people arriving in Thailand as tourists never need this page, because they enter visa-free. If that is you, Visa-Exempt Entry is the one you want — it has the country lists and the rules that changed on 15 September 2026.
The tourist visa proper is what you apply for when the exemption does not fit: your passport is not on the list, 30 days is not enough, or you are coming for something specific like a diving course or a course of medical treatment. The categories are worth knowing about, because TR3 in particular covers Muaythai and diving trips that people commonly, and wrongly, try to do on a visa-exempt entry that is meant strictly for tourism.
Two things to keep straight. Visa validity is not length of stay — it is the window in which you may enter. And TR’s 20,000 THB financial-evidence requirement is considerably easier to satisfy than any Non-Immigrant category, where thresholds start at 30,000 THB and run to 3,000,000.
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This is general information, not legal advice. Regulations change — always check the official source linked above before making a decision.
