@Henry *********

I think you are in for a real disappointment. To Immigration, it doesn't matter if you used visa-exempt entries or entries on single entry tourist visa.It's called "touristic entries" and they now get stricly measured. . . . . .Once you are extending you total stay within a rolling 1-year period, over the 180-days mark, you can be denied entry, both at airports AND at land borders

@Donald *********

correct! The issue of “onwardtickets” was subject of a Phuket Immigration meeting recently. A fake onward ticket will raise a red flag, however until now only in case the traveller falls under closer scrutiny anyways.

When the new measures aimed at “visa-runners” were announced, an interesting remark was given by a Phuket based Immigration top official, regarding “onwardtickets”

“Many passengers create fake tickets by booking without paying or confirming their return flight”, Col. Rasarin said.

“We have strict measures in place to detect this. If a ticket is found to be counterfeit, or if payment has not been made, the traveller will be deemed to have not declared their innocence from the start and will be immediately deported.”

book three days in a hotel on booking com, upload the receipt, and cancel after you have submitted the visa application

Paul Green . . all copies can be black n white. However your signature on each copy must be in blue ink

@Lloyd *******

"based on the visa-class" I would say, not only "on the visa". And the rest of your comment is 100% correct

@Russell *******

wrong. The 12-months extension is the 1-year extension of the 90-days stay permit you got stamped into your passport when you entered Thailand using a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa. You don't have a "visa" any more after you got stamped into Thailand . . . . .On Immigration you show them your originally issued Non-Imm-O Visa, and they will issue a "1-year Extension of the Stay Permit" . . that's what the EoS stamp says. Many people here don't understand the difference between a visa and a stay permit, that's why you read so much utter nonsense in the Facebook groups . . this is what you wrongly call "visa extension" . . . WHERE is there ANY mentioning that this thing is a "visa" ?

@Colin ********

thank you, I shall enjoy

@Colin ********

" if the OP were to go to try to apply for the first extension of stay any more than 30 days before that original Visa expires" . . . . . this is wrong. It is 30 days before the 90-days admitted STAY PERMIT expires, which he got stamped when he entered Thailand, not "before the visa expires". Because the visa already "expired" i.e. it became used and void when he entered Thailand on it. Why people always confuse the visa validity with the lenght of the stay permit stamped, it's out of my range of understanding, mainly because almost every Thai Embassy website is mentioning the difference so you can avoid this mistake

@Edward *********

it is always less expensive to buy the re-entry permit at the Immigration office. The best method is, buy the re-entry permit right after you have been issued the "1-year Extension of the Stay Permit" stamp in your passport. In most Immigrations, you will need two passport size pictures for the application to a re-entry permit

@Edward *********

" One time is only ฿1000 but multiple reentry will set you back about ฿2500." . . . . . . . . .that was definitely wrong and you didn't really understand what they said. A multi re-entry permit is 3800 THB on every Immigration office in Thailand. At the airports you have to add 200 THB to the above fees of 1000 for single and 3800 for multiple, if you don't bring readily prepared application forms and passport size pictures