don’t bother about it too much. They try to make us feel bad for using a scheme that has no guidelines, no rules and then they wonder why people would abuse it to live in this country. In my opinion as long as you don’t work you have no reason to feel bad. I will never pay for Thai Elite, or DTV until they make it clear how many days per year you can use a TV or Visa exemption, especially not after seeing people enter every week on back to back exemptions and tourist visas.

@David ********

what rules and regulations? Have you ever seen a law stating how many times you can cross by land to Thailand on a visa exemption, or fly in? Also, how many days can you spend in the country on a visa exemption, or a tourist visa? No one knows the answers to these questions

@Dwayne *******

What is the Republican way? Letting measles run rampant after almost getting rid of it decades ago?

@Mark ******

I am actually shocked by how cheap Vietnam is. I spent Christmas in Nha Trang at a nice 4 star hotel for 25% of what I normally pay in Thailand.

@Mark ******

Yeah, I’ve been told Poipet is a terrible border and yet I still have not seen in the 10 times I crossed a single person being denied. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the total number of daily denials is quite small, but the uncertainty has forced me to move to Cambodia until I gather the money for the Thai Elite Visa

@Ian ********

when? I have multiple 30 day extensions on my 30 day visa exemption from 2023 and 2024 before the policy change

@Andrew ******

can you read?

The deal we had before the summer of 2024, meaning visa exemptions for 30 days + 30 day extensions was not bad, so I do not see the fuss. In any case, visiting Thailand more than 4 months a year on a visa exemption is not advised

@Richard ********

bogus if you cannot read and if you cannot remember what policies they had in place before last summer. What is so special about staying 60 days in Thailand in 2022 and 2023? You just had to pay for an extension and that was it.

He does not even mention receiving a 60 day visa exemption stamp, only the ammount of time spent

@Faye ********

you could always extend from 30 to 60 days