@Ran *****

most of the medical treatments are also doable on simple tourist visa, so the tickets and eventually advanced payments for the treatmen are not lost.

@David *******

Do you have figures of how they expected the economy boosted by DTV and how much it actually was influenced, or are you just guessing?

To me it looks pretty difficult to measure the gains.

Anonieme deelnemer when you got out the country already after the moment you should report, better leave it for now. Since yhe counter resets every time you get in, at the moment you are OK. They can see you missed one report, but normally this will not harm you, only when you need something from immigration they might fine you for this.

The reporting is only every 90 days when you are in the country, counter resetting when you reenter.

So when you travel outside the country at least once in 3 months, you never have to do this reporting.

But since it is free and only passport and TM30 is needed, it is not worth to do a border bounce only for this.

When you retire in Thailand, you will need the non-o visa anyway, so most easy is just to apply for the 3 months non-o in your home country.

That prevents all possible problems with onward flighttickets and questions, and also makes it much easier to open a Thai bank account which you also will need.

Then at immigration you apply each year for the extension. of 1 year.

Anonieme deelnemer when you stay 90 days without leaving, you have to report at immigration with TM47.

This has to be done every 90 days, but resets when you leave the country.

Did you already do your first 90 day reporting?

@Julian ******

This depends a bit on your current situation. In case you are still on a valid marriage visa, and not on an extension of stay, the original visa should be cancelled first.

From your second extension of stay on, you normally should be allowed to change extension from marriage to retirement when you comply with retirement requirements.

@Julian ******

as far as I know you can just ask for the next 1 year stay to be retirement in the country, absolutely not necessary to go to the border.

@Julian ******

It is not Thailand making people doing border bounces.

Only people who did choose wrong visa or visa exempt have to do so.

When you choose correct visa for your purpose of stay, you don't need border bounces.

@Rob ********

it might not make sense, but it are the "tourists" themselves choosing this trick to use the visa or visa exempt in a way it certainly was not meant, but it is difficult to change the rules in a way you only filter the ones that use the visa or visa exempt in an alternative way.

Authorities never planned a rule to make "tourists" do a border bounce.