@Kim ***********

Are you a Korean citizen?

You can stay in Thailand for 60 days without visa if you’re entitled to visa exemption, but it’s still only 30 days upon arrival which can extended with additional 30 days at your local immigration.

@Randy *******

Then it’s up to you if you just want to apply for a Non O visa based on retirement for your self or as married to a Thai. It’s less paperwork just for yourself. You probably fulfils the requirements for both. Elite visa or Thai privilege visa as its now it’s called it’s quite expensive and basically an option if you don’t fulfil the requirements for a Non O visa (over 50 years or married thai) as you do.

Depart before 4th of august😉

@Todd ********

I don't think I've tried to claim anything more than him either. There’s a limit to how long time you can stay in Thailand as a tourist without a long stay visa, and a tourist visa itself does not guarantee you entry.🤷🏼

@Bart *************

Agree, I’m so happy I opened in Bangkok and Krungthai Bank some years ago by myself just on visa exemption and just kept them going from Norway after we’ve seen what happened.

@Todd ********

I can’t say this better than Tod. How long can I stay in TH on visa-exempt entries on how many entries can you do as a tourist ?" is like asking "how long is a piece of string?"

NOW read it HERE - the classic reply of Tod Daniels to the never ending question “how often can I enter Thailand”:

“You can keep doing it until you can't.

After the first 1-2, it becomes a gamble. It all depends on which IO you're dealing with. Some people have been ok on just visa-exempt entries (and extensions of said stamps) for periods of over 6 months or even a year.

However, in the past year or so they've really been cracking down on people with back-to-back tourist visas & visa exempt entry stamps. Especially those with long ago Covid extensions.

We RARELY let posts prevail, where people ask if they're going to have a problem getting in get posted on this group and we get a LOT of people wanting to post questions like that.

It's not that we deny those posts because we don't want to answer/help you, the reason we don't let them on is because there are WAY too many variables in that answer and truth be told there is NO real correct answer.

Things that factor in to you entering Thailand successfully are

-previous entry / stay history

-what airport you fly into

-whether you were here over Covid

-whether you have an old ED or Volunteer visa in your passport

Unfortunately the real deciding factor is the officer you're standing in front of when you go to stamp in - and that is beyond your control.

There is NO rhyme or reason on why some people with extensive entry stay histories skate in and other people are pulled aside and grilled after one entry

There doesn't appear to be any specific nationality they're targeting, no number of days in Thailand, no previous number of entries, although ED and Volunteer visa. Especially those b/s back door ones people got during Covid and those Covid extension stamps are considered "stamps of death"

When flying in with extensive entry/stay history airport choice DOES seem to factor in to it. BOTH Suvarnabhumi (BKK) and Don Mueang (DMK) seem much harder on people than say Phuket or Chiang Mai (which has no reported denial of entries)

All you can really do is be prepared by having

*** proof of funds (20K baht or the equivalent in CASH)

*** proof of onward travel within the number of days you will get stamped in for - that means if you're comin' in free stamp for 30 days have onward travel IN 30 days (because that "I've got onward travel in 60 days because i going to get a 30 day entension" line doesn't always work

*** proof of lodging for the time you're here (at least for a week)

They (officers at passport control) CAN ask for any of those things, all of those things OR none of them. Please remember the fact you were never asked does NOT mean those are requirements to enter, nor does it mean no one is asked, it just means you weren't asked

Also remember the fact you have a tourist visa doesn't guarantee you get in (especially with an extensive entry/stay history) all having a tourist visa guarantees is IF you get in, they stamp you in for 60 days.

A new passport doesn't "wipe the slate", your entire entry/extension/stay history is available to every officer at every entry point to Thailand with a click of a button.. Now it can help for them just paging thru the passport but IF they wanna really see how much you've been coming here, a new passport isn't gonna help that much.

@Bart *************

I don’t have any oversight and opened in two banks myself without any rental contract, but things are getting more strict now and the requirements are definitely more stiff.

Practice varies between branches as Brandon states. This is from Bangkok Bank Jomtien and they require both a residence certificate and a rental contract.

@Todd ********

You behave and act just like I’ve watched you over time and goes to person attacks every time you get confronted with your non accurate information. You are indeed not free to enter and stay in Thailand as you wish without a visa according to your stay as everyone knows.