@KC ***

education. visa is not even half that sum. 60 k maximum.

@Mark ********

you can get an extension, 30+30. At least this is how it worked in the past

You will be fine

@Brian ********

yeah, I’ve been coming here for years on visa exemptions, spending 3 months per year in the same places trying to decide whether to marry, get work, or invest in a business and I see no reason why I should be prohibited from doing so since I still live of the year in another country and make absolutely no money in Thailand and getting Thai elite visa, retirement or DTV is not an option for me.

Also seeing some people here try to define what “tourism purposes” are with the pedantry of a talmudist interpreter is just ridiculous

as if you could ever define something so vague. Why is the average Pattaya enjoyer who spends months a year there on a huge budget less of a tourist than the backpacker who has been coming to Thailand for a decade and jumping from hostel to hostel?

The simple truth is that all these problems can be avoided if the Thai government would simply offer guidelines to the number of days you can spend in a year as a tourist on a visa exemption or tourist visa. Other than that we already know that we cannot work, which is perfectly fine.

I currently now, after many years, have a girlfriend in Thailand, what would happen if when I come back after many months in my homecountry I get denied because some border guard does not like the fact that I used to spend 3-4 months a year in Thailand?

See if you can apply for the DTV from Cambogia, it s easy to get around there, small cities and it’s close to Thailand, also very cheap prices.

Tourist visa is irrelevant for you now, because the visa exemption grants you the same ammount of days

Why would they not allow you to cross by land? Just curious because I did this not too long ago and it was ok, no one told me anything when I left

they take care of all the expenses and paperwork related to customs

@John ***

จอนห์ พิวห์you can easily ship from LA with DHL, or UPS, but it’s extremelly expensive, but convenient if you can afford it and it takes only a few days for the package to arrive. I sometimes send books from LA to Bangkok

I am not retired, but one of my relatives did exactly this in 2024 and he didn’t have any problems

How many 90 day visitor pases can you get in one year?