Hello everyone,

I was wondering if I’m going to have a problem entering on a Thai tourist Visa in late June to phuket for 10 days because of my history and immigration becoming stricter.

My history.

At the beginning of last year I stopped using my retirement visa that was forced to get during COVID.

I flew in and out of KL in February last year without a entry permit to return on a visa exemption

I returned to the UK to work for the summer season there in mate April 2024 but had some time off in work in July 2024 and came back for about 10 days before heading to the UK 🇬🇧 for work again.

So that’s twice last year I entered on a visa exemption.

I returned in mid October 2024 on a 6 month METV.

I got a 30 day extension after I entered the first time and then flew out twice for the day to KL and both times I didn’t get a visa extension.

However the last time I flew back from KL in February 2025 they questioned me about when I was coming back.

I told them October and they said that should be ok and make sure I had a return flight.

I plan to get a marriage visa in October 2025 when I come back from working in the UK.

If I make sure I get an actual tourist visa before I plan to come back in June and have at least 20,000baht in cash & book a hotel at least for 3 days, with a return ticket should I be fine to enter Thailand into phuket for 10 days?

I wanted to get a marriage visa at then end of last year 2025 but we had a proper wedding last October and bought a new house so things were tighter than normal having to pay for the house and the wedding.

Thanks in advance 🙏

I see a lot of people saying your border run and extension history on tourist visas will either impact getting a DTV or can create problems once you already have it- how extensive of a history do you think causes those problems?

I am currently in Thailand on visa exempt for 60 days. Returning home 6th April.

Are there any restrictions as to how long I have to wait before returning to Thailand again?

(I want to return to UK for 3 weeks then back to Thailand for 21 days)

I've done a lot of visa runs, extensions, including land border runs in Laos and Myanmar. But I've been mostly living out of Thailand for over a year, but still visited and extended. When I use this passport I get asked what I'm doing in Thailand. Should I not get a DTV until I get a fresh passport? Or is this not a problem?

Looking for someone who was on a student visa in 2024 and is now on a DTV visa now 🙏🏼 because I saw on a French group someone who has to pay taxes on the years he spent in Thailand

Question, I had a few years of education visas. Been like 6 months. I’m back in the states and getting a new book. Can airport immi see past history of previous books if I have a new book?

Hello I have an American passport. I'm 30 years old. I have been on 2 education visas, 1 volunteer, 1 work permit and then different border runs and tourist visas on this current passport.

I have been told I'm not allowed to make another visa with my passport until I get a new one.

I have 20 days left on this visa and then I can do a border run for 45 days (from what I've been told).

Questions:

• can I simply go to the border and cross out and then easily come back in? Is anything required to do that other than my passport? I am in phuket and probably will go to Malaysia?

• can I get a new passport if I still have 5 years until it expires?

• if I can will they transfer all of the previous visas or just current?

•in 45 days, what if US embassy hasn't finished my new passport and it overseas before I received my passport? Any info on making new passport?

• would leaving to another country and going to that American embassy be of any use so they don't transfer all of the information?

Thanks u very much 🙏

Just after some advice 😃 Australian passport

Entered Thailand 21/8/19 on 30 day exemption

Extended 30 days

Visa run to Vientiane 16/10/19

Extended 13/12/19

Left Thailand 6/1/20

Almost 5 months stay all up with the 30+30 initial and then the 60+30 TV

(Only entry before that was a 2.5 week holiday January 2019)

Im coming back in a month. I’m fighting Muay Thai at a decent level and would love to get an education visa however it is a bit out of my price range at the moment

I plan to get a tourist visa next week in brisbane and enter at DMK on that

With that previous history (I know it’s not a lot compared to some people), could it cause problems at immigration?

Is there another way? I’ve thought of flying into neighbour country and crossing by land but costs a lot more

Thank you

Sorry Tod, I know you closed the comments on an earlier post of this story but I think it's important to acknowledge "recently" embassies and consular affairs were given access to immigration systems- thus now when applying for Visas using new passport to hide previous history of travel will not work - they can now see everything!

hello to all

yesterday i landed at don mueng with my fifth tourist visa obtained at vientiane. the fifth was stamped with a remark that this was my last tourist visa. A don mueang immigration did not want to let me go. After long discussion the reponsible asked me to buy a plane ticket out of thailand no later than November 30 is just 30 days. in the end I left with my passport stamp until December 31 is my 60 days visa .... my questions are so do you think I can stay until December 31 and then extend my passport to 30 days cheang watthana and then do 2 visas run? and then, with a new passport, could I do it again or does immigration have my history in mind?

Thank you