@Derek *********

this is the webpage of Immigration where your GF can register her house

@Derek *********

So, your girlfriend got the blue housebook She first has to register the house in the TM30 Online System. She will receive a login-ID and a password. She will be asked by the system to change the password.

After this is done, your girlfriend can report your arrival at her house in the TM30 online system - as having arrived at this accomodation.

You, the foreigner, usually don't register the house in the system by yourself, as you would need the blue housebook and the data it contains to do so.

However, if your girlfriend gives you the login-ID and the password, you can register every of your arrivals by yourself.

Instead of this proceedings, the two of you could also visit Immigration, together with her blue housebook and her Thai ID card and you with your passport, and register the TM30 directly at the Immigration office

@Vito *************

you seem to misunderstand the DTV issued on a "soft power". You cannot work on it inside Thailand. You are supposed to attend seminars, classes and schools. As attendances aren't checked by Immigration, you are litterally free to live, but not allowed to work.

@John *******

asking any Immigration inside Thailand won't get him anywhere. It is as I already commented: It depends on the individual decision of the Immigration officer at the border, and person's recent stamp history

@John *********

it's not possible to be a dependant of a daughter who is older than 18 years. A mother can get a dependent Non-O visa for a child that is going to school in Thailand on a Non-Imm-ED visa, but when this child is over 18 years old, she can't be on a dependant visa any more. The daugther is on a Non-Imm-B visa and working in Thailand, and I have never heard that a mother can get a dependant visa based on a daughter working in Thailand

As of July15th, 2024, the limit of two visa-exempt entries across a land border per calendar year, was removed.

As of now, there is no limit cited in any Immigration policy. There is no more rule in the writing that says how many times within a calendar year you can enter Thailand on a visa-exempt entry.

But that doesn't mean it's unlimited.

Every entry is at the discretion of the Immigration officer you are standing in front of, and if they feel you're not a tourist, or if they think you are abusing visa-free entries by trying to stay in Thailand long term, you'll be pulled aside, questioned and possibly denied entry, or being told to use a visa next time. Then you will be allowed in but your name is “flagged” in the central computer, so every other border official will see that you have been warned.

Right now, we see many reports of this happening to people after only one (!) single 60-days visa-exempt entry topped with a 30-days extension.

There aren’t any 2-times limits nor are there any 4-times limits, regardless if you enter by land, sea or air

You can take one 30-days extension on a 60-days visa exempt entry for 1900 Baht at the immigration office serving the area where you stay. But that shows that you are apparently maximizing every stay.

Keep in mind, after your first visa-exempt entry, across any land border you're going to run into problems trying to bounce by yourself out/back to get a new free 60-days entry stamp

and even by bouncing via an airport you could run into problems.

If you try to bounce by yourself, you should know that some crossings with Laos and Cambodia require you spend at least one night and sometimes 2 nights out of Thailand before you can come back.

You could post your question on a group related to where you stay in Thailand and ask for recommendations for an agent/service that bounces people out/back from there.

These “visa-run agencies” have it set up with the Thai side of border control, so you can benefit. They grease the palms so you can get out and back on the same day.

Flying isn't all that much better, because a short bounce out/back (a few days) isn't going to fool the Immigration officials at the passport control when you go to stamp back in. They'll know you're doing it just to get a new free 60-days entry stamp and you could be questioned about your entry.

These Immigration officers all have their own say in the matter. To be allowed consecutive visa-exempt entries is upon their sole discretion. If Mr. Officer Somchai has a bad day, he might not like your trousers and deny entry.

To answer your question about how many times you can do a visa-exempt entry into Thailand within a 365-days calendar year, the point is, any visa exempt entry, by air or across a land border or by sea, gets you 60 days now (since July 15th, 2024)

So, it doesn't matter where you enter - you will get 60 days stamped – if the border official comes to the conclusion you are a “real” tourist, he/she will let you back in

I am not trying to scaremonger at all, just letting you know this isn't the same Thailand it was back when they were giving 30-days admitted stays when you were doing yearlong consecutive visa-exempt entries.

But - since July 15th, 2024, when they went to 60 days for 93 countries, they got really, really hard on people trying to live in Thailand long term on visa-free stamps.

They look at it as you got 60 days, you could have extended that for 30 more giving you three months, and you have maximized your stay. This makes you a real tourist and not someone who tries to milk the visa-free system.

In case the officer at the passport control feels you should have either applied for a long-term visa, he might think that if you were a real tourist, you should be going back to where you came from after these three months

That's why I say look for a service to bounce by land, as they have the wheels greased so you get out/back without hassle, that's why they cost some money for what they do.

But you should expect problems if you try that too many times consecutively. A longer stay abroad between two visa-exempt entries makes you look better. It might work or might not work. We don’t know for sure.

Good luck with it, safe travels

a mother cannot get a spousal dependent Non-imm-O visa from her child. Only possible vice-versa. You would need to apply for the 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement visa if you are already over 50 years old and can fulfill the financial requirements, in your home country. Enter Thailand on this visa, get stamped in for a 90-days stay permit, open a Thai bank account and transfer a minimum of 800,000 TH B onto it. From up to 30 days before the expiry of the initial 90-days stay permit, you can then apply for the "1-year Extension of the Temporary Stay Permit based on Retirement"

@Gabriel *****************

No. Your company will have to adress the specific Immigration office in a letter containing their company letterhead. However it is okay to take the contract with you when you visit the office

your company confirming your employment and asking Immigration to issue a "1-year extension of the temporary stay permit in the kingdom" to you

@Paul ******

actually, for an "extension of the 1-year stay permit"