Anonymous participant You don’t even have to be there, anyone can do it for you.

@Paul ******

it’s a multiple entry visa. You can come and go in ten minutes if you like. There are other multiple entry Thai visas which people bounce out/in with by just walking across a border and walking back in again. There’s no ‘I need to make this look reasonable’ like it’s a genuine trip or visit. You can use the multiple entry aspect of it exactly how you want.

If I’m in Phuket, for instance, and I have any kind of multiple entry access to Thailand (examples of which are; multiple re-entry permits on an extension of stay, a multiple entry tourist visa, and the, seemingly discontinued, multiple entry one year Non-Imm O) I could decide I want to go shopping in kuala lumpur for the day, fly out in the morning and fly back the same evening. There would be no questions as to why I didn’t stay for the weekend, or what was the purpose of my visit to Malaysia. It’s a perfectly normal thing to do, it takes the same amount of time as flying to Bangkok, and if your current visa or extension allows for it, you can easily do it. People fly to Singapore for the day quite regularly, it’s under two hours.

I think you’re inventing restrictions and limitations on this visa that don’t exist.

As for the cost, there are visa run companies charging around ฿6000 for hours in a van whereas a same day return Phuket to KL on Air Asia 08:15 outward, 19:35 return flight is less than half that.

Take your passport, TM30 receipt. That’s it. Fill out the form they will give you when you say you want to do a 90 day report.

It’s probably the easiest, and least significant procedure in an immigration office.

Try not to overthink it.

If you’re on a tight schedule just fly to Malaysia and back on the sane day. There’s no visa fee to enter Malaysia either

Filing a tax return and paying taxes are slightly different things

Why would you sit in a van for 15 hours for the best part of 6 grand when you could fly somewhere nice for the day and come back for less than that?

They might be surprised, but you’re allowed to surprise them 😊

It’s just proof that you’re in Vietnam whilst applying for the DTV

What people usually provide as that proof is; the entry stamp in their passport from Vietnam immigration at the airport. Their boarding pass from the airline, and their accommodation proof, which an AirBnB booking/receipt is.

If you are in the country for 90 consecutive days you report that fact to your immigration office (your TM30 designated which office is ‘yours’). That is what a 90 day report is.

If you’re not in the country for 90 consecutive days, then you don’t.

You dreamt all this up by yourself, right? You read tea leaves as well?