@Vanessa *********

When you arrive without a visa, you will receive a 60-days stay permit. It is called "visa-exempt entry"

This 60-days stay permit can be extended on Immigration for 1900.- THB for 30 more days.

At the moment it is TOTALLY unclear, how many times in a row you can make a border bounce and receive another 60-days stay permit.

Some say you can do it unlimited times, and others say that you can only stay in Thailand without a visa for a maximum of 90 days within a 180-days period. Time will show who is right.

So, as long as it has not been confirmed, you should use a safe option.

If you want to play 100% safe, apply for a 60-days single entry tourist visa in your home country, enter Thailand, get stamped in on this visa for 60 days. Extend on Immigration for 30 more days.

Before the stay permit expires, do a “border run”. Exit Thailand and re-enter visa-exempt. You will get stamped in for 60 days. And these 60 days stay permit can get extended for 30 more days.

60+30 and 60+30 = 180 days theoretical stay permit

Vanessa Williams When you arrive without a visa, you will receive a 60-days stay permit. It is called "visa-exempt entry".

This 60-days stay permit can be extended on Immigration for 1900.- THB for 30 more days.

At the moment it is TOTALLY unclear, how many times in a row you can make a border bounce and receive another 60-days stay permit.

Some say you can do it unlimited times, and others say that you can only stay in Thailand without a visa for a maximum of 90 days within a 180-days period. Time will show who is right

@Vijay ****

you are TOTALLY WRONG. When you arrive without a visa, you will receive a 60-days stay permit, not a 60-days visa. It is called "visa-exempt entry", you arrive without a visa and you don't get a visa. This 60-days stay permit can be extended on Immigration for 1900.- THB for 30 more days. A "visa" technically cannot be extended. A "visa" will become INVALID for further use upon entry . . . . and at the moment it is TOTALLY unclear, how many times in a row you can make a border bounce and receive another 60-days stay permit. Some say you can do it unlimited times, and others say that you can only stay in Thailand without a visa for a maximum of 90 days within a 180-days period. Time will show who is right

the question rather is: which schools/cooking classes/ Muay Thai camps are "government approved"?

Will the applicant be required to upload the licence of a school, along with his contract for a course or seminar? Can I book a 4-week Thai cooking class and receive a 5-year multi entry visa on the sole assumption that I will participate to a 4-weeks cooking class? Who will control that I really attended the classes? 😂😁

I would assume that you will eventually be caught out misusing two passports, when they take your fingerprints at the borders.

A red flag will come up. And in the worst case, you can not only be refused entry, but also could get banned for a couple of years. So better BEWARE of your actions!

And what’s left to say about that little phrase “unlimited visa-exempt entries” ?

The phrase „unlimited visa-exempt entries by air” never held what it promised.

In the past, at a certain point, let’s say on the third attempt of doing a consecutive visa-exempt entry, on all airports you got pulled aside and questioned about your true intentions.

And you got warned that this would be the last time they allow you to enter without a visa that fits your purpose.

So pray tell, why would it have changed to “unlimited 60-days visa-exempt entries”? Based on only ONE report of a Filipino traveller about what he experienced at a Laos land border?

Why would now begin to think, that the phrase “unlimited” actually means unlimited entries by air and by land?

Each entry is still granted upon discretion of the Immigration officer at the border.

If an Immigration officer decides that you have stressed the visa-exempt entry long enough and “misused” it for achieving a longstay, there goes your “unlimited” down shit creek

I don’t want to put Tod Daniels’ assumptions onto a gold scale, but if you ask me, time will tell that your “unlimited entries” can indeed reach a final stage

@Cliff ********

soft power reason "medical"

@Frank-Steven **********

there used to be a "Benjamin" in the Visa Advice group, who couldn't tell push from shove. I criticized his visa advice on many occasions, because they were plainly wrong. I always wondered why a group, lead by a moderator like Tod Daniels Visa Guru, would allow a bloody rookie on the team. NOTE: I won't use the more familar term "from Sh.. to Shove" because I don't want to get banned from this group for indecent language. . . . . . Well but some FB groups are like a bar in a backwater town of Texas. If you say anything against a local, no matter if rightful or not - you get sacked, knacked and outbacked

@Frank-Steven **********

I guess it was Robert who kicked you from the group. I won't tell you about my experience with him, here in the public, though

@Radost *************************

single entry and multi entry Tourist Visa are alive and kicking. They haven't been discontinued. Just because citizen of 93 countries can now enter visa-exempt for 60 days, doesn't mean the Tourist Visa classes have been discontinued.

@James ********

how true