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@Wannikea ********
Uhm, you could stay 365 nights a year in Thailand, so it depends how pedantic you want to be. 😂😂
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@Stephan **********
You can stay the full year by continually bouncing
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They're not missing. You get 180 days each time you enter
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@Aslam *****
Great that you heard differently! Chong Mek an hour pulls it up 😂😂
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Yes, and at the end of the extension you will be required to leave the country (even if only for a few hours) and get a new 180 day entry stamp when you return
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@Luit ****************
From my own perspective (and others I know) the DTV works. I am a frequent traveller, travelling overseas 3-4 times a year, so the DTV suits me 100% over the non-O. The advantages are clear:- a much cheaper visa over the five years, no requirement to visit immigration for five years, no requirement to be in the country on a specific date to apply for extension, no requirement to transfer 65k each month from overseas. These alone outweigh the clunky cumbersome requirements of the non-O and having to put up with the nuances of immigration every twelve months. I wouldn't need specific border bounces as my pattern of travel would negate this. Of course, for those that just want to sit in Thailand and not travel, the non-O is still the better option, but definitely not for me
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Yep. No reason why not. This visa is here to stay, such is its popularity. I'm not so sure about non-O retirement visas. I think everyone will be switching to DTV
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@Stephan **********
Thai government merely wish to flood Thailand with long term "tourists" - some will spend big, others not, but with the comparable failures of Elite Visa and LTR, they've obviously worked out that foreigners with real BIG money are going to the Riviera and the Greek Islands, so they've had to drop the requirements and go instead for quantity over quality. There won't be any changes to the visa, but if course, immigration will take it upon themselves to get stupid as they do with other visas for extensions of stay, so I'll be border bouncing and simply getting a new 180 day stamp each time
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@Wannikea ********
You can rest assured that immigration will come up with some ridiculous extension criteria. I agree - border bounce is the way to go