@Joseph ***

Inferior to those across the pond. You having a laugh?

It looks like none of the Thai Embassies are offering non 'O' multiple entry any longer.

@Glenn ****

with respect I think that is wrong. You say 1st year you must have 800k in your bank. Second year you have to have 12 consecutive deposits of 65k. If you don't touch the 800k you deposited for your first years extension, you wouldn't need to deposit 65k in your second year every month.

@Steve *********

Well Steve I read so many expats on here regarding you've got to do everything by the book so to speak, so if that is the case twelve times 65k = 780k. And there's more repeats on FB about visas than there is repeats programs on the TV in the UK and there's a hell of a lot. 😂

I travelled into Thailand on numerous occasions in a calendar year by air and never had a problem. I got Red stamped on one occasion at a land border. The IO let me in but it was going to be the last time by land that year.

@Kevin *****

Ok, the Problem with Thailand, well previously they let everyone and anyone into the country, who were doing monthly border runs and some of those farangs and from what I've been told, mostly from the UK, have gone to Thailand with a few grand in cash and expect it'll last forever. Then everybody gets tarred with the same brush so to speak. The reason I stayed there mostly on visa exempts was because I worked offshore all over Asia, so if I got a visa from an Embassy or consulate other than in my own country, if say a week after getting stamped in at Don Meuang, or Suvarnabhum I got an email, or phone call from a company, several of which I contracted too, then getting a visa and only using it for a few days was a waste of time, that's why I just did border runs near where I was living. The only visa that was good for me then was the multiple entry 'O' visa, which now I believe has been discontinued. On the e-visa portal they only offer a three month one entry 'O' visa. Now I'm retired if I wanted to move back to Thailand wouldn't be any use, as at the moment I don't have the required 800k baht required for the extension based on retirement. Also if you have that sum in a Thai bank as I believe it is liable for tax if your in the country more than 179 days a year, everything is a catch 22. Also to be able to transfer 65,000 baht a month might be ok for pensioners from some countries, but with only my state pension from the UK doesn't come anywhere near that figure.

@Kevin *****

Well I unlike most expats in Thailand I brought millions of baht into Thailand in my eleven years living there, but as with all rules they apply the same to people who bring money into the economy, as those that are living there on scant budgets.

@Steve *********

Exactly that Steve. UK pensioners who move abroad their pension is frozen at the rate the are getting while living in the UK, so no annual increase, unless you are moving to certain countries that the UK has a social security agreement with, whatever that is supposed to mean. Just a UK Government form of discrimination against those of us that have worked and paid into the UK system for over forty years in taxes and a NI compulsory earnings connected rate of assessment. Pure discrimination. Better being an illegal immigrant in the UK, you get looked after better than indigenous British people.

How things have changed. I used to sometimes do half a dozen in a year.

65k a month for twelve months doesn't add up to 800k. 780k actually.