@Andy ****

then FIND a resort which properly registers you per TM30. I am not your nanny holding your hands, buddy. You gotta GROW UP and get things done

@Michael *******

a foreigner cannot get a house registered to him. he cannot get a blue housebook with his name in it, nor can he get named as owner on the Land paper the house is sitting on. WHAT are you talking about?

@Marianne *******

he is asking what to do NOW. Not what to do later when the house is finished and his wife got a blue housebook for it . . as this takes some time . .Thai bureaucracy

@Andy ****

so leave the resort and book into a REAL hotel which does properly register you per TM30

@Michael *******

oh we all know this, Mister Wohl it all. He but cannot get registered in a house which is not finished, yet, because it doesn't have a blue housebook, yet

@Marianne *******

his wife cannot register him in an unfinished home as she would not yet have a blue housebook for this house .. sorry but you are wrong

and if you stay in a rented accomodation, then make the landlord register you by TM30, and be ready & fit to apply for the extension

I would not overcomplicate matters. Just book into a cheap motel near where you are building the house, shortly before you want to apply on Immigration, and make sure they register you properly by TM30. Use the printout from the accomodation or a screenshot, and visit Immigration to apply for the extension

@James **************

you don't have to show the QR code if the Immigration officer sees that you fulfilled the TDAC, when he scan in your passport. That's why they won't ask you . . avoiding extra surveillance

It doesn’t matter if you enter multiple times on a visa exemption or on a tourist visa you bought outside of Thailand

Having been in Thailand visa-exempt or on a tourist visa doesn’t cut any ice, in regards to your collection of “touristic entries”

*** In the end it is the Immigration officer at the border, who will do a quick count of how many days you have spent in Thailand on “touristic entries” within the recent 365-days period

If he counts more than 180 days, he might think you are abusing the tourist entry system for a long term stay in Thailand. He might pull you aside and starts to ask question like those:

*** “do you have any proof of onward travel leaving Thailand within 60 days?”

*** “which are your intentions in Thailand? Do you have a girlfriend, do you work ?”

*** why don’t you buy the right visa for your purpose of visit?”

If he would really start looking for a reason to deny entry, he would ask you for a proof a funds which you need to carry on you in the form of CASH money bills.

The official requirement is that you must carry cash of the equivalent of 20,000 THB when you want to enter Thailand. Credit cards are not accepted as proof of funds.

*** this, you should know and have run a calculation by yourself of the total number of stay days in the recent 365 days, so you know what to expect.

*** some people will tell you they did 7 or 8 visa exempt stay within a 1-year period. However they don’t tell you that each stay never got maximized to the full extent of 60 days, and never got maximized to the 30-days touristic extension for 1900 THB. They obviously had only accumulated short stays, and Immigration officer can see it by your stamp history.

Many of these people are roll-on, roll-off oil platform workers who like to spend the leisure time off work in Thailand, and if questioned by Immigration, they can show proof of what they do.

*** So it is all coming down to the question: Are you a “real” tourist, or are you just looking for a way to spend as much time as possible inside Thailand?