@Gary *******

not true. Fake News ! . . . you can only get two extensions on visa-exempt entries per calendar year. Visa-exempt entries are not limited. . . . . . . It's only border bounces that get scrutinized. If you spend considerable time outside of Thailand or in your home country in between visa-exempt short holiday stays, you can theoretically do 4, 5, or even 6 visa exempt entries per calendar year

You can only extend visa-free entry twice per calendar year.

The first visa-exempt entry can be extended by 30 days, but the second can only be extended by 7 days.

60 + 30 + 60 + 7 = 157 days maximum per year... regardless of whether you arrive by air or land.

Only these two extensions are possible per calendar year (!).

Visa-exempt entries themselves are not unlimited, even though some believe that unlimited visa-free entries are possible by air. This is simply incorrect.

Under certain circumstances, but only at the individual discretion of the border official, multiple visa-free entries are possible, for example, five or more.

In this case, however, your entry history in your passport and on the immigration central computer must prove that your stays were short-term (!!) like two or three weeks, and the total annual stay must not exceed 157 days (some say it is 179 days)

There must be several weeks between each entry. The aim of the new regulations was to prohibit "visa runs," where you only stay briefly in a neighboring country and then immediately re-entered.

You must be able to prove the planned short stay at the immigration counter—for example, with proof of onward travel, departure, or return journey, such as a flight ticket.

I suspect (but cannot guarantee!) that a border official would consider you a "genuine" tourist based on such short trips within a year. In that case, they should be able to see on their central computer that you never extended these short trips.

The 7-day extension is a REAL extension. It's not the same as the stamp "you have 7 days to leave the Kingdom."

At least, that's how I've interpreted the changed rules regarding visa runs after following official announcements and personal accounts for days. However, I'm still NOT guaranteeing its accuracy.

What has become clear is that "per year" is defined as "per calendar year."

Those who want to be on the safe side should obtain a single-entry tourist visa in advance for stays of up to 60+30 days.

Someone entering on two single-entry tourist visas plus two extensions, with a corresponding 2- to 4-month interval between them, would reach a maximum of 180 days "per a 1-year period" (not per calendar year – this is calculated differently!).

@David ********

you are apparently confusing the visa you got. If you needed an insurance and a police check, you applied for the Non-Imm-O/A Longstay Visa. You did NOT apply for the Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, as this one NEVER required these things. And if you still need to prove an insurance for each yearly extension on Immigration, it indicates that you started on a Non-Imm-O/A Visa and not on the Non-Imm-O Visa (without the "A"). Some Immigrations allow "grandfathering" which means that the requirements that were in effect 10 years ago are still good for you in the present time, regardless of changes

you can't expect a health insurance cover a pre-existing condition. And by the way, a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa application (where ever you apply!) and the subsequent "1-year Extension of Stay Permit" out of it, does NOT have a mandatory health insurance requirement

@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"