If you have a DTV it's a 5 year multiple entry visa. <- That means the re-entry permit is built into it and you can enter thailand as many times as you want to with each entry getting you a 180 day entry stamp.

PRINT out the PDF file that they sent you in the approval email <- that is your visa. Hand it and your passport to the officer when you stamp in and CHECK your entry stamp before you walk away from the counter to make sure you got stamped in for 180 days :)

Also don't forget to fill out a TDAC (Thailand Digital Arrival Card) before you come back to the country (you can do it from 3 days before your arrival right on down until you're standing in the arrival hall waiting to stamp in, <- there are free kiosks at the airport.

I think what you're asking is can you bounce out/back at the Ranong / Kawthaung border with burma to get a new 180 day entry on your DTV

No issue at all doing that. Right now that's the only "land" border with Burma that's open to foreigners

Nope you won't have any issue at all,

Show up at the airport with BOTH passports

They'll stamp you in on the new one, make a notation that you have the extension/re-entry permit in the old one and

Then you go to the immigration office where you got your extension and get the stamps moved to the new passport

this has NOTHING to do with entering the country and getting stamped in for a new year with proof of insurance. As I said I don't even think passport control has access to this web-portal. It's looked at by thai immigrations when you get a year extension of stay

There were some reports that the airlines which fly from UK thru the middle east (dunno the names sorry) were asking for proof of onward travel when people were checking in with valid 90 day Non-O visas :O

You just have to hammer them and say that it's not required (as it is indeed NOT required if you hold a valid visa to thailand)

And now I'm the one going off topic :O

BUT

People were mentioning the TGIA ( Thai General Insurance Association) website where the immigration offices can log in and view insurance (if it's a thai approved carrier)

This is what that looks like.

This is a print out of the proof of mandatory insurance for getting yearly extensions on an OA visa

You can see the change in coverage when they increased it from 440K to the 3.5M

I do not think that the passport control officers at the airport have access to that system thru the longstay website which is why they ask for the print out of your insurance

@Mike ******

something is not right with that story. IF you had a OA visa that you got from your country before you came here, got stamped in for the first year, then exited/re-entered with new proof of a year mandatory insurance coverage before the VISA expired you would have gotten stamped in for a whole new year (or as long as your insurance was valid for up to a year)

Are you sure you were comin' back in before the visa itself expired? (The enter before or must be used by date on the PDF) and not before your entry stamp expired?

I messaged you about this comment too as I'd like to see the stamps and visa if possible

i think they might have asked because they wanted to know IF you'd gotten a new policy and would get a new year stamp OR if they would just stamp you in for the old insurance expiration date

@Lonnie *******

strange they would have asked for proof of insurance seeing as it should be written on the PDF print out of your visa and it also should be written on your first entry stamp in Thai where it says allowed until insurance expiration.

We're getting off topic people, let's keep it on topic who has had an OA Visa, exited / reentered the country just before the Visa itself expired presenting a new years mandatory health insurance and gotten stamped in for another year.

Those are the people the O/P wants to hear from.