What should I expect during immigration process at Bangkok with a DTV visa?

@Ray *****

The correct question is how many days do you wish to stay in Thailand, and then making a plan around that.

Exempt entry is not a reliable long term visa (similar to many other countries).

It is intended to make short term arrivals easier, and even allows for a longer term stay via an extension. It's not meant to be used back to back over and over.

In the past immigration was lenient on this type of activity but long term stay has never been the intention of the visa exemption.

@Arron ********

What do you mean?

The group of people who would be seriously affected by this change is actually quite small.

More than 99% of visa-exempt entries are for stays of less than 14 days, and travelers still have the option to apply for a 30-day extension inside Thailand.

For those who genuinely want to stay the full 90 days, they can simply apply through the official government portal for a 60-day tourist eVisa before arriving.

And for anyone looking to stay longer than a year, Thailand still has plenty of long-term visa options available. If anything, Thailand has never had this many options for people who want to stay long term.

@THAI *****************************

now I understand why westerners are leaving Thailand and heading to other Asian countries, I thought it was only because of the Indians

@THAI *****************************

I want to stay 90 days what option should I take???

Graham Seal I started going to Thailand because of the 60 day visa exemption, now $25 easy visa in Vietnam for 90 days is my destination

Peter Slaman it's back and Forth,Do this one day and opposite the next.

Cary Vignal

Just because you have to pay 30 euros now to get a 60 day tourist visa online you go to a different country? 30 euros and 10 min of your time is taking you away from Thailand 😅 insane

Graham Seal fed up with the Thais as they change the game plan every other day

Cary Vignal did you also go to Vietnam before July 2024 when Thailand extended the visa exempt entry to 60 days so you switched?

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@Cary *******

The change from the start was temporary.

If you want to stay in Thailand long term there are plenty of options available.

If short term there's the TR visa which is quite simple to apply for.

Steven Scott it is not any law that the Thai Cabinet Meeting passed, but a Cabinet Meeting Resolution

Search for any ประกาศกระทรวงมหาดไทย and Thai Interior Ministry Announcements have been published ( Gazetted ) in Thailand's Royal Gazette for centuries

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Dca Dca maybe you should actually read the Constitution of Thailand and understand that any law passed by the legislature has to be signed off by the King or deemed to have been signed by the King before it is gazetted into law. 1

Chapter One

Legislative Process in Thailand: A Statistical Overview

Shinya Imaizumi

Kritchapol Comsatyadham**

The aim of this chapter is to provide a statistical overview of legislative process

in Thailand. It will start from a brief consideration of the forms of Thai legislation, as

well as the features of Thai parliament system. Then, it overviews how the number of

legislation has changed since Thailand established the parliamentary in 1932.

I. Forms of Legislation in Thailand

Despite the frequent constitutional changes, the fundamental framework for the

legislative power remains unchanged. Section 3 of the 2007 Constitution provides that

“[t]he sovereign power belongs to the Thai people. The King as Head of the State shall

exercise such power through the National Assembly, the Cabinet and the Courts in

accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.”1

Any statute that is enacted by the National Assembly takes a form of “an Act”

(phrarachabanyat). A bill of an Act or Organic Act may be enacted as law “only by and

with the advice and consent of the National Assembly and, when signed or deemed to

have been signed by the King under this Constitution”, then be promulgated in the

Government Gazette (s. 90).2

Organic Act

An Organic Act is one example of the legislative reform under the political

reform movement in the 1990s. The concept of organic act was introduced into Thai law

 Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO).  Research Assistant, Faculty of Law, Chulakongkorn University.

1

The English text of the 2007 Constitution in this chapter is taken from Pinai (2007) with some

modification by the author.

2

Sections that are referred in this chapter are those of is those In this chapter, the numbesections is

that of the 2007 Constitution, other legislation referred. And by the way what are you a diplomat of, which department of the Thai government are you representing?

Steven Scott The Head of State, as Sovereign Monarch of Thailand does NOT have anything to do with these 3 draft Ministry of Interior Notices (Announcements) on changing the free Visa Exemption scheme for Tourists or Visa on Arrival scheme being published in the Royal Gazette

Please kindly do not involve Thailand's Head of State when there is nothing involved with these Ministry of Interior Announcements, past or present