What are the risks of living in Thailand on visa exempt or tourist visa entries?

Dean In the article it specifically stated;

The starting period will be determined by the Tourism and Sports Ministry after its study of the proper period and details.

Dean Guilfoyle that was a b/s announcement of what the thai cabinet had passed NOT what had made it into law yet.

I think that is still tentative and not in effect.

@Christopher ********

right being denied entry by land means you go back to what ever country you were just in. By air it's a little more tricky :(

Well what I was getting at is that if you're refused entry at a land border, the worst that can happen is you walk back to Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia etc?

That's quite likely to be the reason why they limited visa exempt land border entries to two per year. To make people like this fella fly in and arrive somewhere where they've got a cell to put him in while they arrange for an airline to fly him out of the country again.

There lies the catch 22 :O You can only get TWO 30 day visa exempt entries by a land border in a calendar year (Jan 1 - Dec 31).

This means people can't just bounce out and back in to get another 30 day visa exempt entry by land after the second one. If they are going to enter on a visa exempt entry they HAVE to fly in.

Now they could get tourist visas and enter by a land border no problem though