Totally open, no issue at all for foreigners to bounce out/back (other than the typical issues people bouncing themselves at the cambo borders have faced in the past)

Ban Laem and Ban Pakard in Chanthaburi province open later than normal. They used to open at 6am - 10PM <(really until about 9PM)

BUT

Now with the "disagreement" going on the thai side opens at 8AM and the Cambo side opens at 9AM <- meaning that's the soonest you can get out of thailand into cambodia 🙂

You got your wires crossed a bit

As an Aussie wouldn't get any "entry visa"

People from 90+ countries (Australia included) get stamped in FREE for 60 days on the "visa exempt" entry program (which has been 60 days since July 15th 2024)

Once you're here you'd go to your immigration office, get the hand out listing the documents needed to apply for the in country 90 day Non-O visa based on retirement for 2000baht.

You need a minimum of 15 days left on your entry stamp to apply for that visa at most offices. When you apply you will get a receipt that says to come back to the office in 2 weeks. When that time runs out, you return to the immigration office and they ink in the Non-O visa, and a new 90 day stamp.

Then you wait until you have 30 days or less left on that stamp, go back to the immigration office with all new documentation and apply for a yearly "extension of stay" based on retirement for 1900baht. That gets issued on the spot

Thank you for the update,

That's great you Chiang Mai-ese-ians 😮 can use either the main office (which has the 90 day drive thru window) or the immigration location in the Central Festival Mall.

@Phil *****

as Graham Seal correctly pointed out (y) the Departure Information field is for when you are LEAVING Thailand

It is NOT a mandatory field, just leave it blank.

People do this quite a lot

What you do is show BOTH passports when you go to stamp IN to thailand, they will stamp you in on the new passport and make a note that you entered on a "retirement visa/re-entr permit" from the old passport.

THEN

You need to go to the immigration office that issued the extension and get the stamps moved to the new passport

Just so you are clear you file the TDAC (Thailand Digital Arrival Card) using the new passport number 🙂

some consulates are getting wise to people applying and then going back to thailand, they will wait 4 days or so after you applied then email you for EVERY page of your passport including blank pages <- to see if you bailed out of their country or not 😮

@John ******

it really was a problem from Phnom Penh (and a few other consulates)

nope won't affect you at all, believe me you're not the first person who didn't qualify for a visa at a consulate

@John ******

they applied at a consulate before they all switched to eVisa online PDF's,

AND

Some consulates would put the sticker visa in your passport, then if it wasn't approved they'd stamp VOID on the sticker 😮

Phnom Penh was FAMOUS for doing this for people who were applying for various visas

Here's a Tourist Visa from the thai consulate in P/P with the VOID stamp

We always advise people USE A SERVICE if you're border bouncing from Bangkok because there are many MANY reports that they are NOT letting DTV holders who go to the border themselves bounce out and back the same day.

They can legally make you stay 24 hours in cambodia before they let you back into thailand.

AND

they often ask for a "processing fee" to let you back in OR tell you to just go back to Cambodia and fly in

That "I'm going to save money and bounce myself" scheme rarely works out well with the thai/cambo borders even for DTV holders.

That's why services charge DTV holders more money because the border charges them more to let you out/back and give you a new 180 day stamp the same day

Report back on how it works out for you if you would