What is the best way to get official visa advice for Thailand?

Use Thai embassy for correct advice

Its Facebook… full of conflicting advice by know it alls even if they mean well

David, my experience,

@Brandon ***********

and

@John *********

have provided the most accurate information. 🙏

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Immigration offices interpret the rules differently in each province and quite often the officers in the offices can also have their own interpretation...

And rules change, or some offices may have a crack down on enforcement of rules that weren't being enforced...

Hence, people have different experiences and some don't appreciate that

No sarcastic comments simply scroll

Best advice at immigration office personally or in the embassy homepage, no sarcasm there, but not very polite.

When I did my Non O Visa, 2 years ago, all of my information/guidance came from the Thai Immigration website, entire application process online. I learned about that particular visa by reading through the descriptions/details of different visa types….

Good luck with your visa adventure….

The deal is to remember that often it isn't advice that conflicts but actual practice that differs. In Thailand individual offices act differently. That applies to Immigration but also, for example, tax offices too. Don't expect either official or any other supposedly universal answer to apply on a local basis. Most here haven't reached the taxation stage, but a very applicable example is trying to open a bank account and getting different answers from different branches of the same bank. This isn't the West where there is a near universal chance that answers from different branches or offices of an organisation will correspond to the organisation's stated rules. I went into my internet supplier's local office yesterday. I will go into one or two more to cross-check. You get used to this. In fact I have bitter experience on mobile service suppliers. Being advised by one office of the supplier, acting completely in line with the advice and having to go to another office to sort the mess.

Go to your local immigration office start where you intend to finish

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There will be conflicting answers for many posts. Some know what they are talking about. Some clearly don’t.

Separating the good from the bad is just usually about working out who’s who.

If an admin or moderator answers you then you’ve had good advice. Others are a coin flip. There are many knowledgeable people in this group and there are some not so.

Obviously you’ll get the answers that say “check out the official website” but that’s the reason this group exists.

The official websites are generally run by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They are the ones that sell visas to enter Thailand.

Actual policies on whether you can enter or for how long are dictated by the immigration department.

Sometime the left hand and right hand don’t always speak directly to each other.

If you are in Thailand you can call 1111 for official info from live agents, in English and Thai, not sure if they have other languages.

Hogwash . There are massive differences between each and every application of the rules between every immigration office in every province. I spent two years trying to do it on my own. Total failure. Finally gave up and hired an experienced agent in Pattaya. Approved and issued a bank account and retirement visa within three weeks.

To start with, there are no clear advices on anything concerning Thai Visa and Thai Visa rules.

"Young" clarified this already.

This said, I add 2 advices:

- Don't ask Facebook for advices unless you want to get a lot of useless advices and bashings. Even Thaivisa, now Asean, is full of keyboard warriors who have nothing else to do in Thaiiland and give their useless advice about Thailand.

- The only place to get useful advices is the Thai Immigration website and the Thai Immigration departments. Although each officer is entitled to inpose his own rules, you will get the best advice from them.

Your stuck with it... 2 immigration offices will tell different and that might not be same as the Internet too.. And you can't argue with them. If your looking for logic, quick, smooth and easy.. Look elsewhere, your not getting it here.

If not in Thailand then Thailand Embassy at where you are now, if 8n Thailand go to immigration and ask

Well I can tell you that when I wanted a visa I certainly didn't consult Facebook. The logical place to gain the correct information is the official Thai embassy website 👍

I would take the advice of John stammers as gospel

The Thai embassy or consulate web site ,it’s all there

you can find it in official local immigration site. There is no conflict. Official guide lines are very clear. But the real problem with this is, every immigration office have own rules and can require what is not listed in official guide lines. And, every single immigration officer has own rules too. Guide line required A, but your immigration office can require A plus B or not A or C or D or E etc.. A local immigration office accepted A, but B local immigration office does not accept A, or C immigration office needs D. like this... That is why it looks like conflicted. But clear thing is to ask your immigration officer who you need to face. He is the rule and he is the guide line.

You'll see replies will say admin or moderator. Those are the ones to rely on.

Believe what the moderators of this group tell you and you will be fine, they know what they are talking about they are experts.

Right here. If you have a specific query just ask. You just need to weed the wheat from the chaff.