@Patty ******

if you fly without a visa AND this on a one-way ticket (!!), you can be DAMN SURE every airline will ask you for proof of an onward travel leaving Thailand within the 30 days period you will get visa-exempt stamped into Thailand. You should NOT ignore this risk. Please be AWARE the cheap fake "onwardticket" might NOT be accepted by the airline as sufficient a proof. Only a REAL flight ticket such as for example Air Asia one-way from Hat Yai to Kuala Lumpur for 32.- US Dollars give you a 100% guarantee of being accepted

@Tony ********

you allow the ATM to run a conversion? You are losing money! Google "dynamic currency conversion scam"

the Immigration Samut Sakhon, sadly, has a bad reputation of inventing bullying new rules to a random number of applicants. You could consider, that when your application comes due, relocate accomodation and TM30 to a hotel or resort within the jurisdiction of a different immigration office.

@Stuart ********

oops, sorry, I missed to notice your soon to be departure date

your granddaughter could apply for a 60-days single entry tourist visa. She'd receive 60 days stay permit and can extend once, for 1900.- THB, for 30 more days on Immigration. This would be much easier than having to "border bounce"

@Chris *******

ah, okay. A Thai citizen can enter Thailand even with an expired passport, see the answers above. Can she check-in to the flight from the UK to Thailand, with an expired passport? That's a good question. Technically yes, because she can enter Thailand with a passport of less than 6 months validity and even when it is already expired

@Chris *******

what kind of "6-month rule" are you talking about? There isn't any such rule

First off, your husband has no visa. He has a one year stay permit based on “reason” retirement

You need to apply on the Thai embassy of your home country FIRST a 90 days Non-Imm-O visa based on being a trailing spouse to a foreigner who holds a stay permit in Thailand. you do not need to show any proof of funds.

You cannot get this visa inside Thailand

If you can get this 90 days visa based on being a trailing spouse at the consulate in Penang, is out of my reach (I guess it is not possible but others have confirmed that you can get it there)

You need to start with this 90-days visa, enter Thailand, and change the visa on Immigration into a “1-year Extension of Stay Permit based on being a trailing spouse of somebody who has a stay permit in Thailand”

@แอนโทนี่ ******

you can definitely do two visa-exempt entries and also two extensions Yet everything after this is upon the discretion of the immigration officer at the border

@Wabble *******

the owner of the premises has to report you on the Immigration within 24 hours of your arrival on the location. He/she needs the blue housebook and his/her Thai ID card . . . .. He/She could also register her house/apartment in the Online TM30 system. They will receive a Login-name and a password, and will be able to make an online TM30 for you upon your arrival