@Lee *********

Well since foreigners can't own land, not much reason to spend time looking at buying a house.

@Kay ***********

Owning property does not confer any right to stay in Thailand. The banks care about your visa and your permission to be in Thailand, not about your property.

Immigration offices are quite clearly not wanting to give DTV extensions. You just need to read a few posts here about them making crazy requirements, and then once you meet those requirements they add new ones and then tell you to just leave Thailand and return.

@Vitaly *******

Immigration offices DO NOT want to give extensions for DTV. Each office can set their own requirements and most have made it all but impossible to get a DTV extension.

If your address is in Bangkok, and you have a DTV visa, Chaeng Watthana is the only office for doing 90 day reports. The other offices are for different purposes and not available to you.

Anonymous participant 893 Wrong, the rules very specifically state you MUST remain in the jurisdiction of the embassy during the entire process.

@Erik ******

Has nothing to do with politics. The laws recently changed in Thailand holding banks responsible for all fraud and scam losses. They are hedging their bets and getting rid of all risk.

The DTV does not have an insurance requirement.

The visa is valid as of the day it is issued, and it's valid until the expiration date on the visa. You can wait 4.5 years to enter if you want.

@Julien *********

That is not only the expectation it's the requirement. And embassies have been doing follow-up checks to ensure you are still in the country by asking for receipts from your hotel and letter from the manager, asking you to come to the embassy for an interview and checking your passport for entry stamps to ensure you didn't go anywhere else, etc.