Vets won't know.. you have to find out the countries requirements yourself and then instruct the vets to do accordingly .. bringing into the country is easy but your own country might require that you have extra vaccinations or an electronic chip inserted into the pet. As they are concerned that you may want to take your pet back home after it has been in Thailand for a while.. i brought cats here several years ago.. no quarantine here... flight costs are expensive for pets. You pay buy the animals weight.

You have family here who are Thai nationals.. and they are also blood relatives to you.... so i cant see why you couldnt have a non 'O' visa..( visiting family)

Depends what passport you are using.. what

@Robert ******

said is true for the type of passport i have. But im not sure that it applies to every nationality. . In the same way that not every passport holder will be given 30 days to stay if they have no visa.. permission to stay without a visa i believe is only 15 days for certain passport holders.. and im not sure whether this can be extended at immigration or for how long.

I have also heard of tourist visa's being changed to 'B' visa's at immigration.. too.. how true it is and how it may have been done. I have no idea.

WTF ???

I personally cant see how they will accept anyone trying to extend a 'B' visa ( working visa) based on the fact that your no longer working (retired)

I would have thought you would need to get an 'o' visa.. and you would probably need to go to another country to get it. Then extend it here at immigration

So yes do get back to us and let us know how you got on.. be interesting to know.

The law is that yes you do have to.But.. they dont ofter implement to law..

TIT .. 555

Agreed.. sometimes they do sometimes they dont.. in 22 years ive never been asked to prove anything.. but i do believe that some people have.

I flew in to bkk 3 weeks ago with no visa and they didnt ask me for proof of onward travel or money or hotel... nothing..