@Jim *******

Ministry of Foreign Affairs sell the visas. Immigration set out the rules.

@Jim *******

I don’t think so. Check your sources. The extension fee for the DTV is 10,000 baht. Why anyone would ever do that is a mystery, but that’s the fee.

@Amanda *********************

To extend the DTV for another 180 days costs 10,000 baht.

@Angelo **********

I don’t need to fly out or travel regularly to read the posts and comments on this forum and other visa related ones to know what I’m talking about and how often immigration ask about onward travel. For 300 hundred posts about someone saying they got stopped and asked by their airline for onward travel before being allowed to board there may be one from someone saying immigration asked them about onward travel plans. These are made up numbers. I don’t tally every post.

@Greta ****

??? Where did you hear about a 1,900 baht activation fee?

@Angelo **********

I have no idea what you are trying to say here. I’ve been here 35 years. I stated that the probability of being asked by immigration is very close to zero. The hardship if you are asked for an onward ticket and you don’t have one is the possibility of being denied entry. You almost certainly won’t be asked, but you could be.

How often I fly is completely irrelevant to anything in this conversation.

@Jim *******

Depends on the office. Previously Phuket didn’t require a TM30 for short term extensions but now they do. I suspect other offices that didn’t require one may do so now.

@Bart *************

The airlines probably have to factor in that although it’s a slim chance that extensions won’t be given it’s a possibility that they could be denied. I’ve seen it happen once (other than when an extension wasn’t allowed anyway).

@Angelo **********

Ok. Perhaps I misread what you wrote. But I think you said “I do not know why the moderators do not know that stuff.”

Marlboro, L&M , Camel sold everywhere as well as some Thai brands that you probably don’t want to try.

B&H were here 30 years ago. Not sure when they stopped but haven’t seen them at all for years.