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

Aug 30, 2024
4 months ago
Gaurav *********
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"Can anyone tell me how many times a year you can visit Thailand on a tourist visa?"
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Visitors to Thailand can enter multiple times on a tourist visa or visa-exempt entry, but there is no strict limit on the number of entries. The ability to re-enter depends on the specific immigration officer's discretion and the traveler's behavior, such as maintaining a genuine tourist profile and not overstaying. Common practice involves obtaining 60 days upon arrival, extendable for an additional 30 days, with possibilities for border runs to reset the entry count. However, frequent entries could raise questions from immigration officials, particularly if a pattern of short exits and re-entries emerges.
Pat ******
I think depends on your country? We have an agreement that for on year period cant stay longer than 6 months in Thailand ( with tourist visa ) … and its calender year period ..
Graham ******
@Pat *****
What country are you talking about because there is no 180 days limit in Thai immigration law?
Pat ******
@Graham *****
So you can stay 200 days without any visa in Thailand?
Graham ******
@Pat *****
With a multi-entry Tourist Visa you can stay almost 9 months with two border bounces and three extensions
Todd *********
There is no actual limit. At some point if many repeated TV, you may be questioned. No big deal
Jose *******
Count on 180
Ron ******
Do you actually mean visa exempt on entry (now 60 days), if so no limit.
Phil ******
@Gaurav ********
if you apply for a tourist visa prior to travel as many times as immi lets you
Nimal *************
I understand that you’ll get 2 months visa with a possibility of extending for another month depending on the country of your passport.
Kim *********
@Nimal ************
that's not a visa that's visa exempt which means without a visa.
Jo **********
Sorry but many of the comments are rubbish. It’s not the number of times. It’s the pattern and abuse. Some people like me have entered visa exempt more than 12 times in a year. but each time I leave the country for 7-10 days. Then there are people who come max out and get an extension then leave for a day and repeat. And repeat again. Then you could have a problem
Tim *********
For as long as you behave like a tourist and don't throw up suspicions of living here or being a smuggler!
Mark ********
@Talita *********
I am

doing one in 10 days time.
Talita **********
@Mark *******
This is great news! So it works.
Don ********
6 possibly but, tbh it's very fluid and dependent on the immigration officer
Mark *************************
As many times as you want until an immigration officer says no. Also, staying out of the kingdom for a while will help you immensely between border runs.
Jay *****
How many times do you plan to come to Thai in a year and how long you plan to stay per entry. If you stay 28 days, go out and come back in again maybe 2 times, you might get a red flag and immigration will question you.
Tin **********
180
Uwe ****
Just pay an agent to get a longterm visa.
David ********
Can I visit on a Visa Exempt status (US citizen and full-blown tourist) for 60 days in Bangkok; go to Cambodia for 30 days, then back to Chiang Mai for a month; before flying out to Vietnam for 3 months and Kuala Lumpur for 3 months? And still come back to Thailand 7 months later and get another 60 days? Going to do the slow-travel experience for a few years.
Willem ****
As long as its a visa. MTV as a example can be up to 9 months on that one single visa. You can go in and out as much as you want untill it expires.

Maybe you not mean tourist visa but visa exempt. Thats no visa
Michael *******
Until you get removed
Robert *********
Wonderful. Haven’t heard this one for a week now
Kees **********
Most people don't want immigrants in there country but they want to live illegally in Thailand. 🤷‍♂️
Sean *********
@Kees *********
not the same kind of migrants lol. People who come with non tourist visa in Thailand adapt and respect rules of the country
David *******
You DID call me a liar. You don't know what you write you're a lefty liberal communist. You're indoctrinated. Bullshit explanation. No men die on the way just the women? Soooo naive and stoopid
David *******
@Kees *********
yes that's me! Lol but I don't sponge off the thais like huge numbers of new arrivals do in western countries
David *******
@David ******
no you just drive up housing prices!
David *******
@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 *********
@David ******
Doh! Most new arrivals had good lives but fled with the clothes they were wearing. In the UK, for example, asylum seekers are not allowed to work so have no choice. But as soon as their claim for asylum is accepted, they are keen to work and pay taxes
David *******
@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.
Tim *********
@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.
David *******
@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.
Tim *********
@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.
David *******
@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.
Tim *********
@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.
Christopher *********
Depends on the officer and it depends on your passport.
Henrik *****
Until a Immigration Officer assess that you are not a genuine tourist, but try to live in Thailand without a proper longterm visa.
Jo **********
@Henrik ****
ok Mr Wisdom but Thailand has Visa exempt for a reason
Henrik *****
Looks like people agree with me and others that write similar, and not a single one with you
Mark ********
You may get 60 days on arrival then you can extend that by another 30. So there is 90 days. Then do a border run and repeat. So you could get 180 days.
Talita **********
@Mark *******
Is it allowed tho because I was sort of thinking the same but saw an article that said no more border runs you cant just exit Thailand into a neighbour country and re enter.

I have never tried,

Did this work for you and when?
Brandon ************
As many times as they let you
Wayne *********
Until an IO says that's enought get a real visa
Stephen ********
@Wayne ********
a tourist visa is a real visa. If an embassy issues it then it's unlikely entry would be refused.
Wayne *********
@Stephen *******
abuse the tourist system trying to live in Thailand on tourist visa you can be refused. Embassy issue but don't run immigration.

As I said they will say get a real visa that allows you to live in Thailand like non o
Stephen ********
@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)
Wayne *********
@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.
Stephen ********
@Wayne ********
I understand, but I didn't pick up living long term from the post
Wayne *********
@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.
Stephen ********
@Wayne ********
I get it with visa exempt, but with tourist visas there's less chance of being stopped
Wayne *********
@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.
Stephen ********
@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.
Wayne *********
@Stephen *******
Omg can still be refused entry
Stephen ********
@Wayne ********
omg highly unlikely if coming in say 3 times a year for a month at a time
Wayne *********
@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
Stephen ********
@Wayne ********
as is the OP living there on tourist visa 🤣🤣🤣
Wayne *********
@Stephen *******
many try it obviously your not switched on enough to know
Wayne *********
@Stephen *******
you still dribbling. Go troll elsewhere
Wayne *********
@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.
Wayne *********
@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.
Sheldon ****
@Wayne ********
they did after living here a year. They wouldn’t let me through immigration till I bought a ticket out of Thailand.
Sheldon ****
I bought a cheap $70 ticket to Vietnam. And they let me in and I went back to the uk once my visa was up.
Marouan *******
@Sheldon ***
1 year on a long term visa or border runs? I’m on a 1 year visa and I’m planning on doing a border run when it ends.

Thanks
Talita **********
@Sheldon ***
This is so interesting were you allowed to go to one of the neighbour Countries like Vietnam or Cambodia?
Jules *******
@Sheldon ***
I’m curious. Did you buy the ticket right the ? While at immigration?
Wayne *********
@Sheldon ***
correct and you are not the only one that's been stopped
Brunt *******
@Wayne ********
anyone encountered this experience before? Can share your thoughts 😂?
Michael *******
@Brunt ******
usually involves a cold cell, papa and some KY
Wayne *********
@Brunt ******
yes they have turned people away
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