@Mitch ******

the people having the issues are those who have been in and out of Thailand over the past year and spend around half that time or more in the country (or over the past 2 years have spent around a year or more entering and exiting). That is the type of history that the border immigration are looking at in particular.

If this is true story, there is a risk going to the police station to report it stolen if already in overstay. They can arrest you on the spot and be banned from Thailand simply from being in overstay. A new passport from embassy may take a little time which he may not have. An emergency travel document may be quicker / safer and then get back to home country asap while paying the 500 baht per day. Yes talk to your embassy as people already mentioned. The longer the overstay becomes, it becomes harder to come back, get new visa etc, so need to weigh up time to get replacement passport to go to a nearby country or emergency travel document to go back to home country.

If you are wanting to spend these longer 7 month trips in Thailand on METV (maxing out the METV as its sometimes called), etc then you really should be extending your 5 months in UK (or elsewhere) out to at least 7-8 months each time so that you are in Thailand under half the time over a longer 2 year period. With the travel pattern you describe you are likely sitting at around 58% time in Thailand on a long term average basis.

@Terry ******

Oh price wise it was 2 -3 time more in home country for same procedure. You may had been thinking of a bridge. My tooth was at back next to the wisdom tooth, so either have no deep chewing tooth there or get it done. Not able to have bridge done there as no two strong teeth around it

@Terry ******

the difference between something lasting 5 years or 50 years

I had an implant done around 2-3 years ago at Bangkok Smile. The surgeon who performed mine was also a head trauma surgeon who fixed up muay thai, and traffic accident facial injuries so was very experienced.. Depending on where you currently are in the implant cycle you may need a year more in dentist procedures or you may require less than 6 months. It might depend if you have already had the old tooth extracted yet or not as this adds addition time until completion. After my old tooth was extracted, the bone required 4-6 months heal time. Then the tooth implant gets done. It then requires a further 4-6 month healing time before its strong enough to have implant fitted. If you have already had the tooth extracted and had the healing time then that may take your remaining time down for appointments to be around 6 months and in that case you may only need a 6 month METV. If you still require the full treatment that I had then your treatment plan can be spread over a longer period of time and might have more cause for having the DTV granted based on dental.

@Sue *********

either the teachers or students mostly have Xmas celebrations (depending on the language taught)

20k equivalent in cash is what is being asked sometimes for repeat entries, along with outward ticket, accomodation.

@Paul *********

he did say evisa so he must had gone through the online visa system to get his original entry permit

@Michael ******

useful for airline screening, but be wary of presenting it to immigration if they ask as they are watching for these unpaid tickets now for people with long recent history in Thailand.