I was planning to get a tourist visa (TR) and I took a flight for 20th March, return is like 89 days later.
Now my passport took a long time to be renewed and I'll only get it on the 7th March.
Asking for TR visa seems to take roughly 3 weeks/1 month, therefore this is no longer an option.
I'm from France so I'm elligible to visa exempt entry of 45 days (until 31 March), however if I get that right I'll need proof of exit to enter this way.
So I'm thinking to do a trip to Vietnam at the end for 45 days, two weeks in Vietnam, come back to get another 30-days visa exempt and extend it 30 days to reach my return flight date.
That would be 45 + 15 (in Vietnam) + 30 (back to Thailand) = 90, so my return flight should be ok to serve as proof on the second entry.
Then I could still move it and ask for another 30 days extension for a total of 120 days. This seems like the easiest so far.
If I understand correctly, I can't just go on visa exempt, while asking for the tourist visa from France and make it start when I come back from Vietnam to Thailand because I would be in the country while the visa is processed.
Otherwise I was thinking to do roughly the same thing but ask for a tourist visa in Vietnam instead, but I'm not sure how much time I'd need to stay there to get it.
In those cases I would do 45 + 15 + 60 days (tourist visa) + 30 days (extension) for a total of 150 days.
I'm a bit lost with all this stuff, I would very much appreciate some help in figuring this out ????
Are all those options doable or am I missing something maybe ?
