The rule is usually that you must stay in the country you’ve applied at until the visa is issued.

That said some have done exactly as you mentioned and gotten away with it. If issued in Vietnam you don’t necessarily need to return there to activate it. Any border bounce will do.

Yes it is now a requirement to have an up to date filed TM30 (with a Phuket address)in order to get a re-entry permit at the Phuket immigration office.

You are correct that at Phuket airport they’ll issue one with just your passport. They do however charge an “admin fee” of 500 baht if you don’t have the form, copies and photo.

Also I believe they will only sell you a single entry one not a multiple entry one.

@Ant **********

Airbnb is not illegal in Thailand for stays under 28 days in all cases. If the owner has a hotel license then it’s perfectly legal. In certain types of dwelling it’s perfectly legal.

For someone like a condo owner then it probably isn’t but in some cases it is.

A non O for visiting Thai family is a “marriage visa” if that’s the reason you applied for one.

Perhaps you meant you may eventually apply for an extension of stay off of that Non O based on being married to a Thai national. That’s not a “visa”. That’s an extension of stay.

As many as they’ll let you.

Ok. What office? You might be meaning a blue book (house book). Did you have a filed TM30?

@Pete *********

Yep. They think it’s that they’re clamping down on western foreigners but it’s got nothing to do with them. They are just caught up in the happening. To stop the huge money laundering that’s been happening from a certain country they’ve had to curtail foreign accounts.

@Max ************

whoops. Typo.

NornVPN works well.

@Gary *****

Thanks. I believe a tool is something that is useful to do work with. Humans evolved to use tools to make that work efficiently.

How a moron uses a word like “tool” to try to insult someone just defies me. But there again morons make up stupid stuff.