Is there a limit to visa-exempt entries in Thailand for US passport holders?

@Tracy ********

Arrogant.. only if your from the US.... get a life..

@Graham *****

I proved him WRONG.

Yet, stubborn people will always be stubborn people, no matter what, and they are known for refusing to learn something new

On an APEC Business Card, he can enter, gets stamped in for 90 days, and the need of a visa is "waived".

He should have mentioned the APEC card right by the beginning of this fruitless discussion. It would have avoided a lot of misunderstanding.

However he kept calling his entries on the APEC Card “visa-exempt” entries. And that’s technically spoken the wrong wording. I am a Thai visa adviser, and I am used to the correct termination

He did NOT enter on the visa exemption scheme, this is a completely different process.

Technically speaking, I was absolutely correct when I disputed his claims.

I always try not to sound pedantic, but this stubborn guy literally forced me to use pedantry

@Nongnuch *******

Yeah right

@Anthony *****************

i don't drink and I don't smoke, maybe that's why my advice is accurate

@Nongnuch *******

That is your limited thinking Mate suggest you stay off the substance abuse.

@Anthony *****************

well, then you may call it "Business Card Entry" however, when experts here in the groups mention a "visa exempt entry", they mean the 60-days stay permit when arriving WITHOUT a visa, The APEC Business Card is a special issue in visa advice groups, and since you missed to mention it and called it "visa-exempt entry", no wonder you have been misunderstood. We do not mix a "visa-exemption" up with other RARE commodities outside of the E-visa online system. You may call your APEC a "visa-exempt" but then you will be misunderstood by many people, that's a fact

False. Do you not read

@Anthony *****************

There NEVER EVER was a visa-exempt entry that got you stamped in for 90 days. The APEC Business Visa does not grant you a visa-exempt entry, it actually is an entry on a valid visa!

@Anthony *****************

you call yourself "well informed" ? 😂😂 I am gonna post that in my group and let the readers decide where to stuff your info (it is the place where the sun never shines onto)

@Nongnuch *******

I do not need it I am well informed on that issue thanks. It is you that is misinformed. I just stated the facts.

@Anthony *****************

go open your own thread if you need information on the APEC Business Visa 😂😎 and stop using Google 😎

@Anthony *****************

😂😂do you hold an APEC Business Card? No, you don't. Now you are getting funny, trying to dig out something to prove me wrong! 😂 You are sidetracking, you have left the topic we were about. Stick with the topic, matey 😂😄 The topic was tourist visa, Non-imm-visa and visa-exempt. NOBODY here wrote about the APEC visa

@Nongnuch *******

I suggest you write to Siam Legal it is their web site.

@Nongnuch *******

Again I have an APEC Card it entitles me to a 90 visa exempt stay Multiple Countries) . I have used it a number of times, I should know, so you not that well informed are you. APEC Rules have not changed.

@Anthony *****************

“You implied I was lying about my 90 visa exempt entry, indicating to me that you are not well informed”

there NEVER EVER was a visa-exempt entry that got you stamped in for 90 days. the APEC Business Visa is NOT a visa-exempt entry, it actually is an entry on a valid visa!

You can however get a 90-days “admitted until” stamp when entering on a 90-days single entry Non-imm-o visa type

You are trying to make us believe in a barstool story, when you wrote: “I get 90 days on each arrival”

My criticism is on the claim of “each arrival”

Getting stamped in for 90 days on “each arrival” was possible on the 365-days multi entry Non-Imm visa types (family and retirement). These visa types, however got discontinued by October 2023.

Only on a single entry 90-days Non-Imm visa type, you will get stamped in for 90 days, but never on “each arrival”. On “each arrival” you will only get stamped in for 90 days, after you have been issued a new (!!) 90-days SE Non-Imm visa

On a SE Tourist Visa you will get stamped in for 60 days

(maybe you confuse the visa validity of the tourist visa with the length of the stay permit. The validity is 90 days, however the stamp you will receive upon entry is for 60 days)

@Anthony *****************

things changed in July, I bet some of these websites stay say it's 30 days too

@Anthony *****************

there NEVER was a visa-exempt entry that got you stamped in for 90 days. . . . . . This was possible until last year on 365-days multi entry non-Imm visa types (family and retirement) but all these visa types got discontinued by October 2023. All that grants you ONE SINGLE TIME 90-days stay permit stamp, are the single entry 90-days Non-Imm visa types

@Nongnuch *******

Hmm You implied I was lying about my 90 visa exempt entry, indicating to me that you are not well informed. .... I know what visa entitlement I had. Thanks/ I agree it is confusing but many sites talk about a calendar year and limit on the number of entries

@Anthony *****************

Thaiembassy dot com is a private website, who by their name try to look as if they were a Thai official website. It is run by Siam Legal. A lot of their info is outdated or plainly WRONG

@Anthony *****************

you see. neither Siam Legal and their website full of errors and false info, nor you, are up to notch. . . . before July 15, 2024, visa-exempt entries across a land border were limited to 2 times per calendar year. And this was THE ONLY "calendar year reset rule", there doesn't exist another one! Siam Legal is known for not updating their website! The limit of 2 visa-exempt entries across a land border was discontinued by July 15th. Matter of fact, or I would not be the admin of my own visa advice group.

@Graham *****

is one of the few well informed experts in some Thailand related groups, and you can trust his expertise

@Anthony *****************

on the calendar year reset - me

@Graham *****

That is a concern in itself but there are other sites that say the same thing. So who is correct, Siam Legal? or You?

@Anthony *****************

that is not an official website and is full of errors or outdated information

@Nongnuch *******

I hold an APEC card which issues a 90 day visa exempt entry to multiple countries. (Thailand Included)

The advice I have provided links to can be found here.

that's absolutely correct,

@Graham *****

, and

@Anthony *****************

, claiming that he gets a 90-days stay permit on each entry, seems to have used a multi-entry Non-Imm visa type, which get no longer issued since October 2023. So he is wrong on two accounts

@Anthony *****************

The January reset was for the two land border Visa Exempt entries before the change to 60 days, nothing else

@Tracy ********

What a friendly approach to people reacting at your questions. Please troll somewhere else!

@Tracy ********

I am not a Thai officer, but you must be pretty ignorant thinking visa exemption is the only option to get access to the country for some groups.

Thailand has a lot of visa possibilities, I think too much.

When none if those fits your purpose, visa exemption will also not fit, it is as simple as that.

The fact that a lot of people in this group find there pleasure and challenge in trying to enter the country as many times as possible, does not change this.

@Alma **************

yeah what are they. Over 50 cashed up.

@Sam ****

you don’t need to actually retire to Thailand to get a retirement visa!

@Sam ****

METV is good for 6 months and you can stay almost 9 if maxed, the nee DTV is great if you can get one

@Sam ****

we did the same thing for years but we tend to stay here maxing up our visas and extending. But with dtv now it's not possible that's why we need to get the dtv..do the same thing and you are set for 5 years.

@Jared *********

I am over 50, but don’t want to retire here. We travel other countries as well, just end up in Thailand 3 or 4 times a year because it is our favourite. Have cash also not a problem. What should we do? Advice