@Dominic ******

i got mine approved for a cosmetic procedure (botox)

why can't you ask your gf to go to the bank and update 'her' number to your phone?

@Kevin ******

made me google, villa market

The Goose cost you a pretty penny??.. isn't it like 1200thb or so?

@Naja **********

I like to think I speak English better than Americans do, because I had to learn it formally as a second language when I was young. And that's why you might want to learn from someone who had to actively learn it rather than someone who just learned by osmosis.

OTOH, I definitely would not want to learn English from you ;)

@Kevin *******

in several years of coming with a tourist visa (non exempt), I have never filed a tm30, so clearly that hasn’t even been a point of verification on entry. Unless someone else has had hands on experience being questioned about it, I would venture immigration officers don’t look at that field.

@Luit ****************

any minimal critical thinking when they thought these up would reveal that there’s no soft power option that would need to have a 5 year validity. Or even work-ation for that matter, if they are going to be re-checking qualifications at entry, they could set the visa at one year.

@Dave *********

I got a 2x month cosmetic treatment for 8 treatments for hair loss. Got approved.

@Werner ***********

I've been on and off Thailand for years on back to back tourist visas (not exempt). Granted I'll stay 2-3-4 weeks out sometimes, and sometimes a week. But tracking visa issues in these groups, I don't see much of anything different with other long term'ers having issues.

@Deepak ******

which is why i wonder about why would they be strict about it 'now', when obviously they didn't care much when people were doing back to back border bounces, _and_ people can still keep doing it on tourist visa/exempt.

It's not like they're cleaning up the regular tourist visas by restricting that, and the DTV people are a new class of people, if anything the vast majority are the long term'ers already.