@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.

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

But you can stay pretty much back to back on tourist visas, which some people have been doing for years, legally at that, which DTV just takes it another step further and makes it easier.

I do wonder if you've heard of actual anything fraudulent? or it's the logical assumption for seeing apparently more people getting asked for more documents? like, anybody posting about not being approved at all for not qualifying? i mean it's not even that strict qualifiers

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

honestly what 'fraud' would it be if people can apply for the regular tourist visa? (which has little requirements beyond paying for the fee itself).

It's not like people couldn't already stay fairly long terms in Thailand.