@David ********

sorry but this is complete nonsense. For the application to a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa in your home country or anywhere else outside of Thailand, and even inside Thailand, there is NO mandatory health insurance requirement. Only for the application to the 365-days Non-Imm-O/A Longstay Visa, there is a mandatory health insurance requirement

@Jason *****

Immigration does not count like this. . . . the day you arrive is day number 1, this day started in the early morning at 0:01am, and the last day is day number 90 when you have to leave Thailand until midnight. You got stamped EXACT 90 days of admitted stay

the requirements for the "change" are listed under number 6 on this Immigration website . . yet it still pays to pick up the list at Chaeng Wattana before anything . . .

@Dennis ********

if you certainly don't know anything, you should not abuse your keypad but be willing to hold your trap and learn

@Jeremy ********

siam legal and their fakesite that pretends to be an "embassy" is full of wrong information regarding this topic. You should kick it into the bin. They are good at Thai laws, but as a visa-advice they are a complete fail!

@Jan *****************

we obviously now have a newly arrived critic in the group, a know-it-all

@Dennis ********

. I am curious how much more %&$$§?§ he is going to comment. Himself he has not offered a single good advice, yet, but has already critcized advice that came from the experts of this group. His name should be "nutter", instead of Nutting. Or better, "nothing"

@Aiden **************

this guy is fulla %&§$ and so completely and utterly wrong, 2 visa exempt entries within a calendar year guarantee you two times 60 days, and with two extensions possible, which are 30 days and 7 days, you can get the maximum of 157 days out of visa-exempt entries. But be warned: if you have maxmized your first 60 days visa exempt entry with 30 days extension, and attempt another visa-exempt border run, you run the risk of only get admitted into Thailand for 30 days instead of a second 60-days admitted stay - like I said - it's upon the discretion of the border official

Visa-exempt - - -that is, if you extend each stay for the full length of a 60-days stay . . .

what I am trying to say is, if you don't maximize each stay, your chances of being allowed more than 2 times are bigger. You actually could enter visa-exempt 4 or 5 times during one calendar year if the total amount of stays is under 157 days (some will say under 180 days) and you can show proof of an onward ticket that you will leave Thailand before the full extent of 60 days is spent, on every entry point . . . .

However I must warn you that this is totally up to the sole discretion of the Immigration officer at the entry point

*** on a single entry tourist visa you can enter 2-3 times, until the point when they pull you aside and start questioning you if you work in Thailand illegally

*** on visa-exempt entries two times per calendar year . . . . a third attempt to enter will probably raise a few brows and can be denied (nobody can foresee the reaction of the officer at the entry point)

*** on a multi entry tourist visa as many times as you want during the 6-month visa validity

*** on a 5-year ELITE privilege visa as many times as you want during the 5 year validity of the visa

@Steve **************

he isn't going to Laos. The ticket is intended to be used as an onward travel proof for the airline (and for Immigration IF they ask - which rarely happens). He is going to throw it away after having entered Thailand