So no warning in the past and they were forced to fly back to Canada. What a joke of an immigration policy. Meanwhile there are companies advertising assisted border runs……

@Ralph ******

not for people who are on their first trip to Thailand. I have more than 20 visa exempt in more than a decade. Just returned for my second 2 month trip this year from Poipet

@Doug *******

so are you like banned from ever using visa exemptions again? Ridiculous. I just returned on like my 30th visa exemption from Cambodia. True. I spend only 4 months a year in Thailand now, but telling someone they can’t use visa exempt again is ridiculous.

At Poipet if you are from a visa exempt country and bring a tourist visa they instantly pull you aside to ask you why you got a tourist visa when you can already get 60 days visa free.

@Ralph ******

who would go through the hassle to apply for DTV for a 4 month stay? Visa exempt all the way

You can easily do a border run. When I don’t have a long term visa I spend 4 months a year here, two trips by car and I never got

questioned in more than a decade, so it seems acceptable

But don’t try it more than 4 months

You can stay 4 months by simply doing a border run. Visas are for longer stays and not worth getting if you only want to stay for 3-4 months.

@John *********

I just got here yesterday at lunch

@John *********

There is no crackdown. Took me 25 minutes to leave Cambodia and enter Thailand on visa exempt. Out of a group of 60 only an Indian person with a tourist visa was questioned for like 5 minutes.

You are really behind the news. Good thing you posted anonymously you tool. I was in Cambodia during the so called “tense” situation and nothing happened. Returned today through Poipet and it took me only 25 minutes

I am going back to Thailand tomorrow. They are limiting working hours and Thais are not allowed to enter Cambodia anymore unless they work here, but other than that the border is open.

I still find what happened yesterday at Poipet a bad joke. The Thai military basically closed the frontier 6 hours before official closing time without announcing Cambodia or their own citizens and residents, telling them to stay in Cambodia overnight and come back next day