What are the challenges expats face when seeking advice on Thai visa rules and regulations?

Well said Robert

And also what happen about showing a bit of application for the help you guys offer many seems to not get it's a free help

Many behavious like they paid for it

Regarding talking about the "rules and regulations": firstly, as far as I am aware, there is no rule prohibiting a visa-exempt "border bounce" after a METV, but someone asking about that the other day was advised by one poster not to do it. There are no rules limiting how many tourist entries one can make in a year, yet certain people in this group constantly complain about anyone posting about doing a visa run and predict doom and gloom with no basis other than their own personal prejudices. So what "rules" are we talking about here exactly?

Secondly, if someone just wants to know the "rules" they can do that by simply looking up a website, whatever, but as we know well, there is very variable enforcement. As such I find it very valuable to get actual feedback from people as to their actual experiences. If we went strictly by "the rules", Malaysia have a "rule" posted on their website that they require hotel bookings (not condo rentals- hotel bookings) and they require them for the *entire duration* of the proposed stay in Thailand. If you stay in a "house" you need to provide a copy of the ID/passport of the owner of the house. Now as we all know, they don't actually require that. But if we were limited to only discussing officially posted rules, you need a hotel booking for every night of your proposed stay in Thailand of a copy of the passport of your landlord to get a tourist visa there. So I think it's helpful to get reports that they actually will take bookings just for the initial few days, as has been reported.

If it just about "the rules" as written there is no need to have a group in the first place, "the rules" are the rules but it's the ever-changing interpretation of the rules in actual practice that makes a group like this useful.

What I like about the replies from

@Rob***

and Todd etc, is FACTS It makes life a whole lot easier to deal with facts rather than heresay.

I'm diagnosed Aspergers Syndrome and have some difficulty dealing with the "I heard" "he said/she said"

I was gonna respond this to a post earlier today but didn’t for obvious reasons. Why do people not do some research and then ask questions if something’s still not clear?

True. This is the very reason I started interacting with this group. Even when you quote a law they respond with calling you names and being an idiot and so on.... it's beyond me how the 3 of you

@T**

@Rob***

@Ll***

are still sane of mind and not in the nuthouse yet

😎😎😎 kudo's for all your patience

I think your pretentious get elite visa is as annoying..

Always fantastic advice and help, thanks heaps

My all time favorite "advice": You don't need to show proof of onward flight out. I've been here LOADSSSS of time (read 2) and was never asked!"

I couldn't agree more. When the time comes for me to retire and my wife and I to live in her village in Thailand I sincerely hope this group is still running.

By the book or not at all

Rules and Laws are there for reasons which we may not understand or agree with. However they are still LAWS

@Robert ******

well spoken, agree. 👍