I just wanted to go ahead and share my experience. I have been living in Thailand for two years now initially just doing boarder runs and then on a 1 year student visa. My student visa ended in September 2024. I did a boarder run to Malaysia and came back on on a 60 day exempt and extended another 30 days. I left Thailand December 20th. I applied for my DTV visa in Vietnam was approved under the workcation category. I entered Thailand and was denied entry initially. I had an interview/interegation my Thai language was tested. I do know quite of bit of Thai but didn't understand some of the questions asked and ultimately failed my interview. They asked for my outgoing ticket I didn't have one I bought a ticket on "OnwardTicket" that I have used in the past with no issues. This time didn't work and was denied entry all together. After my case being transferred to another officer and almost deported. I paid an additional 20k baht and was finally let in the country. Don't know if there was really an issue or just wanted bribe money. But Just thought I'd give a warning to those in similar situations.

Can you go from exempt entry to marriage visa or do you need to go from tourist to marriage?

ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS:

We say over and over to check your stamp when you get stamped in. but still every week people make posts about how they were stamped in wrong and didn't notice it.

One more time, we urge everyone to;

CHECK YOUR STAMPS BEFORE YOU WALK AWAY FROM PASSPORT CONTROL

If you get bad stamped it is YOUR responsibility to get it corrected.

NOTE:

If you get a bad stamp at a land crossing no immigration office will correct it except that entry point. <- meaning if you don't catch it there you slog on back to get it fixed..

If you get a bad stamp by passport control at an airport, it's often faster to go back to that airport to correct the stamp rather than going to the immigration office and waiting in the queue to get it done.

This is an example of a visa exempt entry (ผ.30) but they got stamped in for 90 days. The officer picked up the MAY stamp rather than the MAR stamp 😮 This does not mean the person gets to stay until May, their actual date is Mar 23 like a visa exempt entry would give

Hello

Im from Israel and i plan to get the visa on arrival of 30 days and then to extend in emigration 30 days more then to leave to laos and come back and get again the visa on arrival

Can somebody tel me

What is the law regarding the total number of days per year that a tourist is allowed to stay in Thailand per year and how many times a turist is allowed to leave and enter Thailand per year? Is it a calendar year?

Thanks in advance

Moran ofer

I'm from the US on a 45 day exempt and now a 30 day TR extension. I got a 60 day TR e-visa from the US but it came 3 days after I had already arrived to the Kingdom. Can I still use the 60 day visa on say a RT flight to Singapore and back to Thailand .. or is the TR visa only good from the country that issued it? Thanks for your info and time.

Multiple entry Tourist visa

Hey guys I'm an Irish national currently in Ireland. But in January I'll be moving to KL, Malaysia - living and working there legally.

I want to spend a lot of time in Thailand, so I'd like to get the Multiple Entry Tourist Visa to start...

M question is do I have to get that visa in my home country Ireland, like now?

Or can I apply for it in KL when I get there in January?

Thanks!

I will be going to ChiangMai Jan 7 to start proceedings for a retirement visa. I am a US Citizen so I can enter on a Visa Waver entry.

Question is, can a Visa Waver entry be converted to the Non O retirement? I would apply the 60 day tourist visa but I am in South China and the covid chaos here prevents me from being able to go to the Thai consulate to do so. I have also read that US will not issue one without me being in US (my plane ticket would give it away).

If it can't be, then I need to figure out another way.

Thanks in Advance!!

G’day everyone, a friend of mine is hoping to retire and live in Thailand next year. He was convicted of a crime in the UK approx 30 years ago and since his release has a clean slate. Will this cause a problem when applying for a retirement visa? Thank you in advance

Hi all,

Few days ago I was almost refused entry to Thailand, just bc previously I stayed there 1 year (March 2021-March 2022) using covid extensions to my TR visa (everything fully legal - not even 1 day of overstay or anything). Immigration even threatened about giving me a few years entry ban... For any future visit, will changing my passport to a new one be enough to get 'clear' and enter without problems? Or it's a chance they will keep me on some black list? Thanks a lot for your advice!

Can get a extra mth on your visa in phuket any ware