First came to Thailand in october 2012 after I left Iraq ,needed a holiday badly , come back year after year probably about 3 times a year until I bought a villa in Phuket in 2016 and moved here permanent even though I was working in Indonesia offshore
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rotation , met my Thai wife in 2018 and we got married in 2021in Bangkok Noi ,same year i got my retirement visa ,was on visa exempt before that easy with my work rotation
When I did my first 90 day report in Phuket ,you had to turn up in person with passport and TM- 30 or house blue book at Phuket town Immigration office ,after that can do online application
During Covid there was a hotel in Jakarta I did the 7 day quarantine and they took your passport at the airport and never got it back until you complete the 7 day quarantine,I complained to general manager and he wasn't interested,so contacted the British Embassy in Indonesia and they said it was the rules of the government