if you flew in and got your first 30 day Visa Exempt Entry at the airport, you can leave by land twice and get 30 days each time and extend each one for another 30 days for a total of almost 180 days if you time it perfectly.
John Blackie Two extensions ago at CM I used two accounts with a single letter from the bank. The IO said that I should have had two letters and that the money should be in one account. The extension was granted. I use a Fixed account for the 800k.
who not only understood what and why I was asking, but his suggestion is even better than what I was trying to accomplish.
Because everyone has been so helpful, I'd like to pay that back with two suggestions:
1. Everyone using the 800k method should have their funds in a time deposit. if you don't you're leaving over 10,000 baht on the table. that more than pays for your next extension. Or a lot of beer. You're welcome.
2. If you plan your travel right, you should think about changing your visas. In 15 years I've never been to Immigration except for Certificates of Residency. No extensions, no 90 day reports, no TM 30's, no need for a Thai bank account.
David Broadfoot But I've already answered twice that I'm not on a retirement extension.
And if you do that and get divorced or the spouse with the retirement extension dies, the other spouse has 7 days to leave the country.
So we're back to my original question. Hopefully everyone will stop trying to find ways to work arond this and we can just wait and see if someone else has tried to do something so simple that I didn't even think it was a problem.
EXACTLY! That's why I'm asking if anyone has done this. Why don't we wait and see if someone else can answer the question. If the answer is always "go ask Immigration" we wouldn't need this page, would we?