Heads up!

my son and his GF have been in and out of thailand on visa exemptions for a year or so ( they do Mauy thai). long story short they came back to Australia to apply for Multiple entry tourist visa. They were approved in 3 days.. Happy - took flights to Phuket yesterday ( with flights out of the country in less then 90 days). They were totally grilled and eventually let in but told they can not return again this year! ( despite the visa being approved for 6 months). They were advised to get a DTV ( but GF under 20).

evidently to do with spending more then 180 days in one year in thailand. just thought i’d let people know.

Why are there currently increased checks and interrogations upon entry?

Is the 6 months a year rule for tourist visas / exempt stamps still in effect? Is it only crooked visa agents Circumventing this for clients ATM?

Hello. Do we have to justify every 6 months a digital activity, Thai lessons, cooking lessons, to be in order with immigration and not risk expulsion and being blacklisted? Thank you

With the new rule change at Jomtien and Siracha about TM30 reporting you must report every time you enter Thailand,I was fortunate and didn’t get fined but told next trip please come within the first three days back there is no more not reporting because you return to the same address it was a bit of a mess today lots of people

Just going to drop this info here.

I was in Thailand for 3 months in 2022 September- Mid December - came back in January and since then have done 2 border runs with extensions each time. Now I just flew to vietnam and flew back in the same day to get another 30 day exemption - I was taken to the side office when going through Thailand immigration. They were asking questions and basically said, get a ED visa or a Tourist visa OR ELSE. I told them I had read that the border runs are limited to two times per calendar year, but I thought flying in and out was essentially unlimited. That is not the case.

Anyone else having similar experiences?

Wow.

Numbers in Thailand always looks good for those who presented them. The TAT always have more tourist than the hotel branches who like Government support etc.

Immigration In north east of Thailand, also came out with some numbers of how good they do their work.

Just read it as information, it seems they do work even if the numbers are smaller of even bigger. Be careful out there.

In the period of 1st to 12th July 2,117 arrests were made of illegal immigrants (883) people on overstay (28), workers without work permits (44), those wanted on warrants (13) and 927 other unspecified violations.

Some 222 people were turned back at borders.

Source: [Naew Na]([members only]) and translation of Thai Visa News.

Is the 20k THB requirement used as a legitimate reason to prevent foreigners entering, or it just a pretext for refusal based on too many back-to-back tourist visas/exemptions?

In other words, has any legitimate tourist ever been turned away for not having the cash?