Timeline for Is it illegal to visit the Philippines for a few hours for a visa run? If so, how can I know in which SE Asian countries it would be okay?
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| Jul 17, 2022 at 20:36 | vote | accept | uhoh | ||
| May 20, 2022 at 8:08 | answer | added | uhoh | timeline score: 3 | |
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| S May 20, 2022 at 7:36 | comment | added | Rory Alsop♦ | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| May 15, 2022 at 16:10 | comment | added | uhoh | @jcaron alternatively you could edit it into the other answer if you don't want to post it separately. | |
| May 15, 2022 at 16:05 | comment | added | uhoh | @jcaron bingo! If you post your comment as an answer I can accept it right away. That's exactly what I needed; now I understand. Thanks! | |
| May 15, 2022 at 16:02 | comment | added | jcaron | dfa.gov.ph/list-of-countries-for-21-day-visa Only lists “tourism” and “business”. Don’t think “visa run” qualifies for either. If your reason for a visit was tourism and incidentally that allowed you to reset your visa it wouldn’t have been an issue (other than possibly alerting them to other possible issues highlighted above). Just going there for that it at least borderline. Of course your answer must match your actual intent. Can’t say “tourism” if you didn’t even have enough time to visit anything between your two flights. | |
| May 15, 2022 at 15:50 | comment | added | uhoh | @jcaron thanks, so all we need is a list of the allowed activities/reasons for visa-free entry for the Philippines to answer this question? | |
| May 15, 2022 at 15:43 | comment | added | jcaron | In any case, whether this is actually allowed or not by Taiwan, it remains that it is a “visa run”. A visa run is a quick visit to another country with the intent of resetting the clock on the limited duration of a visa (whether that is legal, illegal, frowned upon or anything else does not change the fact it’s a visa run) and I doubt it is part of the allowed activities/reasons for visa-free entry of many countries, if any. | |
| May 15, 2022 at 15:34 | comment | added | uhoh | @jcaron thanks for your information. The goal here was to find out if the Philippines has a written law or rule or at least an official "frowned-upon activities list" that mentions staying there for less than a day. It may be hard to track down but it seems like there should be one. | |
| May 15, 2022 at 15:28 | comment | added | jcaron | Visitor visas (for tourism or business) are not designed to allow you to live in the country for extended periods of time. That’s why they have a limited duration. Using two visas back by doing a visa run is usually at least frowned upon, and even when there are no explicit rules (like the Schengen 90/180 rule) to prevent it, there are often at least vague rules or rules of thumb (like in the US or the UK). | |
| May 15, 2022 at 13:32 | answer | added | David Morton | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 21:21 | vote | accept | uhoh | ||
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| Mar 19, 2022 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackTravel/status/1505288009662488579 | ||
| Mar 16, 2022 at 5:54 | answer | added | lambshaanxy | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 0:01 | history | asked | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |