What are the limits on obtaining and extending tourist visas for Thailand?

There is nothing to stop you trying your luck with as many T/R as you can get as someone said they’ve been coming in on T/R visas for ages

Why not spend some quality time in the surrounding countries and say enter Thailand every months that way you will never get questioned about living here cos you are obviously not

Laos Vietnam and Cambodia are great places if your single adventurous and like different cultures

I already did 2x land border this year and for the 3rd time, I was able to do it in laos. Can I go to immigration again to extend this for another 30days?

Exactly, until it's not!

Keep doing it and it will stuff up your long-term plans for staying in Thailand.

Last year a guy who had stayed all through covid got a tourist visa from Cambodia and landed in Bangkok airport and they said no. They put him in the airport detention overnight and sent him back to Cambodia.

Get a tourist visa or two and after that you know if you want to stay longer term, get a proper visa, it will make your life less stressful.

It is so silly to be asking FB for info on how to get Thai tourist visa when 5 millions people visited the country last year and you will get 5 millions advices. Why don't you pick up the phone and call Thai Consulate or Embassy in your town and get the correct information right from the horse's mouth? Wouldn't that be a more logical way to go?

I have never been asked about a return ticket ever. Been there like 15 times.

I'm sure this gets answered almost every day.

You've highlighted visa free. Exempt. That's no visa.

@Sean *********

there is no such Visa thats 30 days. What you posted is the rules for a 30 Visa EXEMPT entry. I also agree with Brandon's.comment

Not everything in life is written online. There is no official source. And there are different rules for different people. Welcome to real life.

To the specifics- tourists visas are 60 days. There is no specified limit. There are people here for years on TV’s… and people whom have been denied entry on TV. What you have circled is about land or sea (not air) for visa exempt 30 day entry. Not about visas.

The basic problem is the fact that there is no official source for this. Even though you might find it on the MFA website or the Immigration Bureau website, it is not the same as this is the authorized source implemented everywhere or even commonly implemented. You must ask FB groups like this who collect a lot of reports from people entering Thailand. This way you will get to know what is the commonly established practice, but still open to the idea of the "Immigration Officer of the day"...

That is not from an official source. It's from an agency website.

Also the part you have circled has nothing to do with tourist visa. This is talking about traveling with NO VISA at all, and it's called visa exempt.

You can get as many tourist visas per year as an embassy will give you, because you can only get a tourist visa from a Thai embassy outside of Thailand.

The law regarding visa exempt (traveling without a visa) has no limitation in the law. But there was a new regulation issued by the Ministry of Interior in 2016 saying you can only enter Thailand at a land border without a visa (visa exempt) 2 times per calendar year. They did not change anything when it comes to arriving via plane. So there is no law or regulation that says there is a limit to the number of times you can enter. But EVERY SINGLE ENTRY to Thailand, regardless of if you have a visa or not, is at the discretion of the immigration officer you are standing in front of. If you try to enter without a visa after already spending 4, 5, 6 months in Thailand, eventually they are going to tell you that you are not a tourist and you cannot enter as a tourist, and will deny you entry.