Looking for firsthand experience only, please.

I'm on a Non OA visa with a permission to stay expiring in June 2026. I'm considering the departure and re-entry method to extend my stay, arriving back into Thailand with a renewed health insurance policy valid through June 2027.

Has anyone personally done this through Chiang Mai Airport or Suvarnabhumi and been granted a new permission to stay matching the insurance expiry date? If so, which airport and how recently?

Not looking for general opinions on whether it should work, only interested in hearing from people who have actually done it. Thanks.

Good afternoon

If someone exists the country without cancelling extension of stay based on work, can the person later return to the country?

Back through DMK from a 3 day trip to Laos on a DTV. Got fast track service, skipped the normal immigration line and went to the sideline with a female IO. Stamped in for 180 days. Didnt ask for TDac nor DTV.

Hi Everyone our 180 days is coming up soon. we are in Chiang Mai any suggestions on quick out and re entry?

thank you

UPDATE: decided to fly via phuket anyway as BKK flights added farcto much journey time. We had all the paperwork with us and 20k cash, we paid the 200thb for immigration fast track, no questions (interview room) this time. First time for a long while it was smooth. If we had a smooth re-entry despite the consistently issues before i think its fair to say anyone will be fine once you have activated your dtv (as long as you still meet the requirements if asked obviously).

There are a fair few posts/threads about Phuket Immigration grilling DTV holders on re-entry. We need to do our first DTV visa run. We have previously been grilled a few times and almost denied entry twice before getting the DTV, and then even grilled with the DTV, which is what they told us to get. We are fully compliant and can take all the docs, but are debating coming back via BKK instead to see if we can finally have a smooth entry without the interrogation or stress that comes with it.

To help make this decision, I wanted to ask the group 2 questions;

1. Has anyone with a valid/active DTV actually been denied entry?

2. Are other airports, such as BKK, actually smoother, or are people getting the same interrogation there, too?

I stayed in Thailand for 30 days from December 1 to January 1 I was hoping to come back in may for a month which is 4 months out of Thailand? Is this likely to be rejected I am reading only 2 exempt entries per year (Canada passport). In the past I would come for a month 2-3 times a year without issue and maybe a weekend here or there but heard they are detaining and deporting tourists who stay for 3-4 weeks now at a time. Can anyone give more explanation

About to do my first re entry with the DTV. Just wondering if anyone has had any issues re entering and if any paperwork or anything else is needed aside from the DTV document?

Recently, I had a somewhat strange interaction with a member of this group claiming to be a visa agent.

I have a DTV, and I plan to re-enter Thailand after a short tour of a neighboring country. I searched the forum's posts and on one post I found a comment of someone claiming to be an agent and willing to help out people. So I contacted this person with the intention of gaining information, in case I had overlooked anything.

However what sounded a bit weird was that this person, who claimed to be a visa agent, repeatedly insisted upon seeing my passport photocopy and my DTV, saying they will "check the prices" with their sister working at the checkpoint. When they asked my nationality and I told them I am from India, they said it will be quite expensive for me (the exact amount in the range of 7000-9000 baht) to re-enter.

Even after I told them several times that I have a DTV already, but they kept insisting that I avail their services, and I should share my passport stamp and bio, and DTV copy with them right now, because if I get stopped at the checkpoint later on it would be "considerably more expensive for India" - quote.

This left an overall somewhat shady impression, as if they were trying to gain information and attempt to stop a lawful entry in order to extort money under some pretext. Foolish of me to talk to an agent for something I could very well do on my own, but I have never had such a bad interaction with any agents before, so I thought it might be worth talking to an agent to gain more insights. I got none, though, only a warning that it will cost me money to re-enter, and a repeated request to see my passport and DTV.

Has anyone ever had interactions like this before? Is anyone being extorted by agents at land border checkpoints even if you have a DTV?

Optimal DTV Bounce Duration

The time is here to to my first re-entry on Workcation DTV.

Is there a certain optimal trip length for immigration optics?

Hey. I just got my DTV approved earlier in November. I left Thailand to go home to celebrate xmas and new years with the family before I plan my return early January. I noticed after I got back that I didn't get a "departed" stamp in my passport. Will this matter much when I re enter Thailand?

Thanks 🤗