Many reports from people indicating that no 3rd extension possible for visa exempt.

10 days is nowhere near a long time.

You can only count "business days"

The 9th was a holiday.

It's high season and they are receiving a high volume of applications.

The websites of most embassies state 15 business days is the normal processing time for a visa application.

@Alan ****

visas are issued by the MFA. The people who decided if you get into Thailand or not are part of immigration, a completely different government agency with different rules. The only thing a visa does is determine how many days you'll receive in your passport if you're allowed in.

What appointment are you talking about? Everything is done online.

@Mike *******

Yes, they are one of the rogue offices, along with Koh Samui and Koh Phangnan that love to jerk people around. During low season you can usually get away with a week early at Jomtien but high season they get more unreasonable.

This isn't even a question. You CANNOT live in Thailand as a tourist. People are getting interrogated at the airport after leaving and returning 2 times back to back with an METV. Try it with 2 METV in a row and good luck on your flight back home after you are denied entry. This plan is simply not possible.

You shouldn't have any problems getting the non-B nor entering with it, but you MUST cancel your education extension before you leave. If you don't do that, there are multiple reports of people not being allowed to exit through land border because they didn't cancel their extension, reports of people not being allowed to apply for a new non-immigration visa because they didn't cancel their extension, and people not being able to apply for a new work extension in Thailand because they didn't cancel their education extension and then having to pay a fine of 500 baht per day for failing to do so.

Sure, $15 for the TRANSFER, but you're going to be completely hosed on the exchange rate. And you won't get to know how much baht you're actually going to end up with until the transfer is complete and it has been exchanged, so it will be a mystery.

With Wise you know EVERYTHING up front, what they charge and what the exchange rate will be.

@Yaoyu **********

You can either get it from your immigration office or at the airport on your way out.

@Charmae ******

That would be the most useless trip ever, because each immigration office has their own policies. So what one office tells you have absolutely zero relevance in another one.