@Gary *********

Some offices will want it. Others wont.

They will not give 5 year if you renew when you are on a tourist visa. Some might, of course, but the latest news say they are not going to continue with that.

For some reason I can't get my replies to end up on the other comment thread I am replying to... It ends up in this thread instead..

So that's annoying.

@Gerard *************

A Single Entry Tourist Visa can normally be extended with 30 more days, not 60.

I think you can apply for a 60 day extension if you are family with a Thai citizen though.

But regular extensions are only 30 days.

You can do these same extensions on a Visa Exemption.

Border runs are not extending anything. You are just getting a visa exemption stamp if you are eligible and they let you back in.

And they are getting much stricter with people doing this.

@Graham *****

I am just amazed at how some people are so confidently wrong about some things. It fascinated me to no end.

@Wayne ********

Good luck! XD

Pretty sure Fra Nky just blocked me. Facts hurt, I suppose.

@Fra ****

I understand perfectly.

There is a Tourist Visa.

And there is a Visa Exemption.

They are not the same, and Visa Exemptions are not available for all nationalities.

They both currently give 60 days permission to stay in the country.

@Fra ****

You are saying Tourist Visa does not exist.

You are wrong.

@Fra ****

You're saying that a Tourist Visa does not exist.

It does.

And there is a whole other thing called a Visa Exemption, which is indeed not a visa.

They both currently give you a 60 day permission to stay.

Not sure what you're confused about.

Go to your local DLT office and ask what they require.

If you have a license back home and a International Drivers Permit you may be able to convert this to a Thai license without too much problems, but I heard they were changing that so you'd need to do it all from scratch. Not sure how far into enforcing that they are.

You would need to watch a 1 hour movie with some questions, and do a eyesight ( color ) and brake-test at the DLT if they still allow simple conversions.