What is the best way to achieve a 6 or 9 month visa or stay in Thailand while visiting other countries?

@Fąndn ******

A multi entry Tourist Visa can only be applied for in your home country.

A multi entry Tourist Visa has a 6-month validity for use for an unlimited number of entries (“multiple entry”)

The 6 months visa validity starts on the day the visa is issued. Thus, if you enter Thailand 9 days after it has been issued, you lose 9 days of the total of the 6 months visa validity.

PLEASE don’t confuse the date of expiry of the visa validity, with the date of expiry of the stay permit. These are supposed to be two different dates!

Upon each entry, you will get stamped in for a 60-days stay permit

On each and every 60 days stay permit, you can apply for a 30-days touristic extension of the stay permit, for 1900.- THB, on Immigration. You could, however, also make a border run instead, before the expiry of the 60-days stay permit.

If you take the 30-days extension, you must be aware that before the 90th day expires, you need to exit Thailand.

With the next entry, you will activate another 60-days stay permit

Which you also can extend for 30 more days.

To get the maximum number of days out of this visa, you should therefore enter Thailand as close as you can, to the date of issue

If you exit and re-enter Thailand as close as possible before the visa validity expires, you will get stamped in for 60 days for the last time.

You can then still get a 30 days extension of this last 60-days stay permit.

By this method, you can theoretically get almost 9 months of stay in Thailand out of the multi entry tourist visa

@Wayne *******

That’s why I said visa or exempt. It’s not as unclear as the squint-eyed, constipated old biddies on here who like to criticize make it out to be. They should go back to their knitting and prune juice.