Why do Indian immigration officers interrogate frequent travelers to Thailand?

@Conor ***

they had an even cheaper tier than "Bronze" before the DTV, "Easy Access", I had it myself. It was 500,000 for 5 years or 1m for 20 years. They are clamping down on DTV, yes, but they are also clamping down on Thai Privilege, there are a load of new restrictions there. Used be no problem getting the visa on arrival at the airport, now they want a ton of documents and you have to prove to them where your money is coming from and how you paid for the visa, on arrival in the airport. A lot of people are being denied as a result. It's a big change from a few years ago when it was truly a pay money no hassle visa. This is part of a general "clampdown" across the board coming from the top, it's not an attempt to move people onto Privilege.

@Ivan ***********

I'm talking about the lower tier like the bronze that they are abandoning next month, released AFTER the DTV. They are continuously going to make the DTV harder and harder until they remove it all together, which is what I wrote on my last comment. Forcing applicants to apply from a permanent resident status country is ridiculous, and dtv entry is still subject to the officers discretion, despite how many documents you have, they can't demand/ copy countries with a high-income economy immigration system while barely scraping passed an upper middle economy, especially while hi-so / elite foreign connections can completely bypass immigration altogether. no-ones going to stay or take the country seriously enough to be there long-term.

@Conor ***

Privilege card was around for decades before the DTV, it's not a new thing.

DTV_BegPecker The whole purpose of the priv card program is to eliminate the dtv. They don't seem to realize if they totally gut and make the dtv application too bureaucratic, everyone's gonna ditch Thailand instead of buying a priv card, the opposite of their intention. Not to mention they already have turned 10s of millions of potential general long-term visa applicants away already with the mandatory report system alone since they tightened the rules.

@Conor ***

they can cancel it, sure. But there is no evidence that they will be doing that. The fact that they changed the requirements recently implies that they probably won’t be canceling it, because if that was their plan, they would have done that and not wasted their time changing the policy