@Latt****

check out is optional to fill in, a new check in at another house/hotel will end the previous one.

@Siggi ******

When you stay at another place, they have to do TM30 for you, and that automatically ends the TM30 of your previous address. How do you think immigration would know you did return to the previous address?

@Graham *****

The fact that Immigration is from a different ministry is irrelevant, it is up to Immigration to do border control.

@Graham *****

They might see on their screen.

Ken Gunderson indeed there are no rules that say you cannot come back, but visa exempt is only for tourist use, and living there a long time is not tourist use, that is the rule, and it is up to the individual immigration officer to decide if you are already tourist, that is the loophole.

A lot of other countries solved this kind of problems by saying you can stay for example 90 days in a 180 day period.

@Shake ****

the fact that visa runs happen frequently does not make it normal.

It is just difficult to stop this behaviour, because normal tourists then also get limitations.

How can you think it is normal to get in and out a country every time to stay there legally?

They invented visa for that, and in case you cannot or do not want to comply to the requirements, that simply means you are not welcome.

A lot of countries have a much stricter policy.

Here in this group are a lot of Australians, but if I want to live in Australia, that is nearly impossible.

USA about the same, so I don't really understand why those people think Thailand should let in everyone.

Ken Gunderson border run obligations??

Nobody says people should do border runs.

In fact that is most times against the rules.

Visa exempt is for tourists, not for people living for 20 years in Thailand.

The fact that immigration is trying to stop these practices is not corrupt as you call it, but just the contrary.

Vietnam more open? I need a visa when I want to stay as tourist for a few days, in Thailand that is free.

@Sam *****

there are already long term visa available quite a long time.

If you considered those too expensive, that is not an excuse.

You have 5 years to enter, but when you got the visa for soft power, it might be better to be in Thailand during the appointments.

It might give a strange impression when you book a training and arrive a year after.

@Sean ******

Doing a visa run never is something the country issuing the visa will like very much.

And about the working in Thailand before, I think they might be right.