@James *******
sadly it’s not as simple as that … work offshore so not retired, don’t qualify dtv even though many thousands of klm to closest
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…. Kids Thai but over 20 yr old so not a factor for visa … tourist visa impractical as Thai consul even further away than
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and I wouldn’t pay for 17 tourist visa a year …. I have been questioned 2 x by immigration and said same to them as there is no single visa that is applicable without lying (retirement) or business when I no intention of owning a business etc immigration colonel agreed what I said and thus far (5 years) I’ve never been hassled since. Silly really as the numbers in similar jobs etc is in the thousands every week , a new fb group just for fly in fly out workers living in Thai is already up about 400 members and that only seems to concentrate on mining out of Perth Australia