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Hi. What's the risk of being denied entry to Thailand? My latest experience: staying in Thailand from July 2024 to June 2025. During this time, I had four border runs and extensions at the immigration office. Previous years involved short visits of two weeks each. I haven't been to Thailand since June, which is nine months. Now I'd like to go for two weeks. I don't have time to apply for a different visa type because I'd like to fly to Thailand tomorrow 😂
Are Swedish Kronas SEK ok as equivalent to 20,000 baht?
Hi there! Does anyone have more info on the new visa (purchase 30 million baht property/rent 80K property)? I can’t seem to find much info online and was wondering if anyone has done this recently and has experience. Would love more info, thank you!!
November 2025: accepted a job as a teacher at a school in Thailand with a start date of January 2026.
December 2025: applied for and received a Thai Non-B 90 day visa by the Embassy in London.
January 2026:
- entered Thailand on Jan 1st and had the non-B visa stamped in my passport (valid for 90 days).
- started the job on January 5th. Was told by my employer that they were in the process of applying for my work permit.
- by my second week working there I had realised the job was completely not as described, management were verbally abusing me, and still no work permit (they then told me that they would wait until my probation was finished to apply for the work permit. Probation was 2 months. I knew this was illegal).
- I quit at the end of my third week there due to the lack of work permit, the not as described job, and the horrendous abuse. My resignation (with immediate effect) was followed by a week of abusive emails from management and them refusing to pay me for the time I had worked.
February 2026:
- they eventually paid me and the abuse/all contact stopped.
- I called immigration 5 times and was told each time that I was allowed to stay in Thailand until my 90 day non-B visa expired. They said it didn't matter that I wasn't working - I was still allowed to stay until the visa date in my passport.
March 2026:
I'm now a few days away from the Non-B visa expiring. I have a flight out of Thailand tomorrow. I'm very worried about the following:
1. I worked for 3 weeks without a work permit. Will I get in trouble for this tomorrow when I'm at the airport?
OR
2. My former employer did secretly have a work permit for me (without my knowledge) and I've therefore over stayed by around 60 days because I didn't leave when they cancelled it when I quit. Surely they couldn't have obtained a permit for me though without me knowing?!
Also, I plan to re-enter Thailand as a tourist 4 days after my non-B expires. I will stay for 2 weeks and then leave for good. Will I have difficulties trying to enter Thailand so soon after non-B expiring?
If someone arrives to Thailand from the US on a Non- O retirement 90 day visa through 65,000 route. Is that person expected to deposit 800,000 for the extension? Or is 65,000 per month statements per month enough.?
I have funds in a joint bank account that will cover my income requirement for the DTV. Will that be an issue, or does the account have to be just in my name?
I started the process to extend my non-resident O visa today and had a disagreeable surprise at the bank. When they issued me my bank letter, they said that I would have to go to Immigration TODAY to do the extension, otherwise the letter would be invalid.
Used to be it would be accepted even if it was several days old. Luckily, my Immigration office is not terribly busy; I can't imagine what it would be like to do everything in one day if I were in Bangkok or Chiangmai. Is this common throughout the kingdom now?
I’m from the UK and wanting to apply for a DTV at the beginning of 2026. I’ve been doing lots of research online but figured it’s best to ask people who have experienced the application process themselves so I’m 100% sure on what to do.
The DTV stands for 5 years, whilst living in Thailand, do you have to visit the embassy every 6 months or do you have to leave the country every 6 months and then re-enter? Can you also be denied re-entry at any time?
I know you need 500K THB when applying, do you need to keep this balance in your account at all times so they can check you still have this much money when you get re-checked every 6 months?
Any answers/advice to the above questions would be super helpful, thank you so much in advance😊
Also, feel free to DM me, I’m up to have conversations with people about their DTV experience!
the law. It was suggested in my previous post on the Bank not wanting to allow me to open a Bank account even though I was on a type O visa had my lease agreement and everything.
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