I have around 170 (last I checked) stamps and stickers from around the world over the last 7 years. She thumbed through it and did not take time to see when I was or was not in Thailand, just that I had 11 SETVs.

Just one from a little over a year ago.

Kuala Lumpur told me no last year after too many visas in a row from them. 😉

I’ll check a new place in Malaysia and see how it goes. Worst case scenario I’ll go to Bali for a week or the states for a couple of weeks and sort it out.

I need to go to the US this year anyways, would just be moving things around a bit.

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, I suspect that if I pushed and showed that I had stayed only around 6 months total this calendar year, that it may have been approved, but her level of English was not strong enough to get in to a nuanced conversation about what is and is not permissible. I already have plans to go to Malaysia later this week, so I’ll just give that a shot.

People at Thai consulate.

Proof of funds and onward travel. I think Laos is the only embassy around here that doesn’t require those.

Where are you in Bali? If Kuta, then yeah, that place is pretty lame. Try Sanur or somewhere on the north side of the island.

Probably not a problem, but it is good to mix it up just because there are interesting places around that are worth a visit. Try Bali or Vietnam. If you have the means, hang out and be a tourist for a little bit. I try to spend a few months out of the year outside of Thailand. Pretty easy to get a 30-360 day visa to some of these other SE Asian countries. It also demonstrates that you are more like a tourist than you are an illegal alien using the tourism system to work without the proper permissions.

Be sure to tell your taxi driver to wait for you. It's a residential area, so you have to walk out to the main street and there aren't really good sidewalks or anything... You will literally be there 3-5 minutes unless there is a line of one other person. Then 4-6 minutes.