How many times a year can I visit Thailand on a tourist visa?

@Pat *****

With a multi-entry Tourist Visa you can stay almost 9 months with two border bounces and three extensions

@David ******

maybe if tourist numbers fully recover you'd have a point but most hotels have low occupancy due to decline in tourist numbers. Fact is accommodation is much cheaper in Thailand than UK and the Philippines too

@Tim ********

rubbish. Majority are economic migrants. Same as Mexico border. I'd do same in their shoes but let's be honest about what it is. Genuine refugees would not need to destroy travel documents. The ubiquitous smartphone and feedback on generous assistance (free accommodation foods allowance etc) is the big pull factor.

@David ******

You're either ignorant or a liar. And it's nothing like Mexico. So for your enlightenment, travel documents often get destroyed when bombs hit houses in several Middle East countries, or when your country arrests you for political reasons, or drive you from your farm so they can steal it and sell it, such as in Sudan. They are sometimes lost when boats are repelled by EU border force between Turkey and Greece, or between Africa Libya and Italy. Sometimes they are stolen by traffickers in lawless Libya. If they get to France with their documents, the French riot police have been known to take them and destroy them, sometimes by just bulldozing camps while people are sleeping. Germany and France have far better welfare benefits than the UK, so they don't come for that. Most leave their home countries' destruction and flee in fear, looking for the best place to try to build a new life in safety. Get out a bit and learn for yourself what the world is really like, instead of swallowing RW propaganda where rich people tell poor people they're poor because of foreigners.

@Tim ********

always 98％ young men escaping. Rarely women and children. Do they abandon their women and children? You're the liar not me. It's well known many destroy passport and claim to be minors or from Iran and an oppressed minority LGBT＋. In uk they have fake conversions to Christianity to help their asylum claims. Uk is far more generous than France that's why they leave SAFE France and risk lives crossing to UK. I've heard French politicians explain the UK benefits system is more attractive to migrants. Economic migrants. Mostly young men. Passing through many safe countries. Destroying own passports and claiming other nationality to game the asylum system. Fake asylum seekers. Very few women. They want MONEY and UK gives them hotel accommodation which UK denies to British citizens who are homeless. Fact. That's why the British protestors too to the streets and why Kier Starmer has a negative approval rating 6 weeks after winning general election.

@David ******

I'll give you another example. Young girls and boys flee Eritrea in equal numbers, to avoid being drafted into the army at 14. The boys are made to fight, while the girls have to provide 'entertainment' to the officers. They run alone or with a small group of friends, leaving their families behind. It's estimated that 50% of the girls don't make it. I met young mothers in Calais, the result of being raped on the way. Some women were promised a safe journey to England by traffickers who raped them, sometimes killed them and dumped them in the French or Belgian countryside. Eritreans are predominantly Christians, by the way.

I'm done with educating you now. I suspect we both know what you really are, and why the truth is so inconvenient for you. I dont know how you reconcile your filthy views with living in Thailand. You don't deserve this privilege.

@Tim ********

you're so judgemental. Who the fuck are you to decide who deserves what? NGO headbanger. 98% men. They ain't all from Eritrea. Fuckwit.

@David ******

Wring on every count. I worked with many women and families escaping to the UK. Although it's true many of the females died on the way, so maybe they arrive in fewer numbers. I didn't say there are NO economic migrants who destroy their documents. I talked about the vast majority being genuine asylum seekers who do not behave that way. France is not more generous and asylum seekers are NOT safe in France - read some proper news of attacks by French police. I didn't call you a liar, as I offered the reasonable alternative that you may be ignorant and perhaps this is the truth. I'll add a third option, that you are stupid.

@Wayne ********

spends like the OP wants to visit Thailand multiple tomes as a tourist, I couldn't see where they want to live there. 🤷‍♂️ I used to go 4 times a year, others go more times. All on either tourist visa (real visa) or visa exempt (no visa)

@Stephen *******

I go every month have done for years. I never been stopped but always have a return flight every 2 weeks. I also know the risks of eventually being stopped and questioned hence I got a retirement visa and still go every 2 weeks.

Refusal can and does happen, well known people have been given last warning and some declined entry from coming to often, doing border and visa runs.

@Wayne ********

I understand, but I didn't pick up living long term from the post

@Stephen *******

Some one wanting to come in and out many times on visa or exempt is normally trying to live here. Very common hence why border runs and visa runs are also popular.

@Wayne ********

I get it with visa exempt, but with tourist visas there's less chance of being stopped

@Stephen *******

Bottom line you simply can not keep staying in Thailand on tourist visa. Go ask some of the others who have also said you can't.

@Wayne ********

does the ip want to live in thailand or does he want to visit a number times as a tourist? I think that's my point, a tourist visa is a proper visa for that purpose.

@Stephen *******

Omg can still be refused entry

@Wayne ********

omg highly unlikely if coming in say 3 times a year for a month at a time

@Stephen *******

and where did anyone mention 3 times ? That's in your head.

My comment was come as often as you can until an IO says you can't

Go back and read it.

Go troll some of the others who said the same

@Wayne ********

as is the OP living there on tourist visa 🤣🤣🤣

@Stephen *******

many try it obviously your not switched on enough to know

@Stephen *******

you still dribbling. Go troll elsewhere

@Stephen *******

it happens. Embassies sell visa for $. Immigration doesn't work with Embassies. As said believe it or not I don't care but it's upto the IO of the day. If they don't like the look of you they will find a reason even ask to see the cash you must carry and decline entry if no cash visa or not.

@Stephen *******

As I and others said you can eventually be refused if going with a tourist visa or exempt if going to often, the IO will decide on the day like it or not it happens.