@Jon *******

You meant to say "committed patient."

A lot of people are not paying attention to your concern about the airline rule. Par for the course here, unfortunately. Now, while all airlines are supposed to enforce that rule, I only had it happen to me once at check-in. Others do occasionally have to show proof of return/onward tickets, but the odds are greater that you will not.

That said, as others mention, wait to see if this new policy even gets implemented. If it does, either call your airline and pay to modify your ticket or do look up "Onward Ticket," a service just for this purpose. You'll get an e-ticket to show at check-in which will, in actuality, be automatically cancelled shortly after. I believe it costs about $20.

@Stan *****

Yes, mostly likely so, unfortunately. I don't know if you need a politician, but a connected attorney--especially one that donates to judicial election campaigns(if they're elected where you are)--can ask a judge to strike that from your record. OR get your record sealed. I live in Las Vegas where that's how it works.😬 Records get sealed here all the time and then employers, etc. never know the better. You were 16 at the time so it might even be a routine ask. If a lawyer quotes you too much, a clerk at the relevant court might tell you how to submit your own petition?

Anyway, you probably don't need this. I won't butt in any more. 😅

It sounds like you will not have a problem. But can you petition a judge in your juresdiction to expunge your record? Compared to a lot of the disheartening crap they have to deal with daily, a judge might even be happy to see your subsequent upstanding life and grant this. They do it often here and there. Good luck!

@Jim *******

And with this supposed condition, he waits until 3 days before his visa expires.🙄 Why should any responsible immigration agent WANT this person remaining in Thailand? Will become a ward of the state. Staying is a privilege, not a right. This is just contrived clickbate.

@Brian ********

OP, himself, said he was warned this time. The IO didn't just do that for his jollies.

@Brett ****

We know Ashey's type. He doesn't live "up" anywhere. It's all down for him.

@Brett ****

I heard Thailand gets the bottom-of-the-barrel, most vile scum of the expats in Asia, but Ashey Pooh is a whole new level of waste matter. If we distillled some of the more miserable, cliched utterances of failures whiling away their final hours in beer, urine and vomit, with only FB to keep him company, Ashy would be the embodiment of this foul excrement. He won't wake up some morning soon, buried in a pile of cheap beer cans, half-smoked ciggies and all the bags of trash in the street waiting to cleared away. The blunder from down under will be incinerated and rightfully be rendered into Ash. Nobody will notice, care or miss it.

@Mike *********

I don't disagree with you that today's expats spend more money in the local economy than backpackers ever did. But they still don't contribute to the tax base(though that supposedly will change) and now that Thailand has seen how much Chinese tourists drop on short stays, they have moved on from dependency on Westerners. Thailand also hoped to move up the food chain in manufacturing, but I sense they might be treading water in that area.

@Werner ***********

I'm going to steal that. 😄👏