Ian Whyte Some agents provide fake stamps which make people overstay.
Some agents provide real stamps from real officers, in which you are in the same situation as anyone else. This is not rocket science. The audit already happen during the under consideration period. The immigration office choose to give you the stamp = you are here legally. That same immigration office will not re-audit you, and a random office which didn't give you a visa won't audit because you are not in their system.
There is no catch, you pay a premium price to by-pass financial requirement. Some agents will put money into your account for 10 min to get a screenshot, but some won't because office the they work with won't require it. Once you get the stamp, it's the same stamp as anyone who got it without using an agent. So there nobody to hunt down, you are there legally. Each office decide on the restriction (how long the $ need to be in the account). It's arbitrary in which if they work with agent, the requirement will be very loose.
Visa exempt is 60 days. There no news about reducing to 30 days. Even if somehow it become 30 out of nowhere, can extend 30 more days at immigration. She will have no issue coming in no matter what she's on. You read too much fearmongering which doesn't apply to her situation (no prior visa runs).
If you leave Thailand and try to come back, please use an agent for safe entry, or you will 100% get denied. People in your situation all get denied entry because officers assume that the Ed Visa was part of a scheme where you didn't go to school.
Your best bet if under 50 is to get married to a Thai and use an agent to get Non-O + 1 year extension.
There is no other options for you unless you have the $ for DTV. Everything John mentioned doesn't fit what kind of foreigner you are while in Thailand. You are here to find the cheapest way to stay long term with agent (and without stacking a lot of cash).
To answer your question, fast track with an agent will guaranteed you get back in. It usually cost 2-4k baht, but it will likely cost you 10k+ baht given your history, which is still not much.
You admitted below that you payed the 20k fine (maximum), which mean that you got blacklisted 1 year for overstaying between 91 days and 1 year (in which you surrendered at the aiport upon departure). If you had being caught it would have been a much longer ban. So I don't know why you are being nebulous while literally admitting to paying the overstay fine, lol!
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