After your wife gains Thai citizenship (and passport), to be here with full citizenship status she will have to leave on her German passport and return on her Thai passport. This can only be done by air.

In the meantime, it’s no problem. Her citizenship gives her the right to unlimited annual extensions to the visa that she entered on.

I think she might have to do 90 day reports and TM30 as well. I cannot remember.

@Suwan ********

It was canceled last year. You can check to see if it has been reinstated.

Also VoA was cancelled during COVID. I don't know if it has started up again yet.

@Suwan ********

Visa on Arrival is not much use to you is it? It only lasts 15 days, and quarantine will take up half of that.

@Suwan ********

Yes, he is talking about requirements for Americans to go to Thailand.

According to the MFA website, Australians are required to show A$25,000 in their account for a minimum of six months. A$25,000 is US$18,000.

@Garrett **********

You are wrong. His reply was to a later comment ... not to that one. Look at the discussion tree....

@Marc *******

But it does. In fact the IOs often advice the travelers with a lot of stamps to get (at least) a tourist visa.

(And, as Ray stated, it's not a guarantee.)

P.S. I have no reading comprehension problems at all, thank you. That is how I notice that you are contradicting yourself.

@Steve ******

The "2 visa exempt entries per calendar year via a land border crossing" thing is a regulation - not just a policy.

@Steve ******

I'm not totally wrong. That policy is mentioned on the Hull(UK) embassy site (for example), and several oil rig workers reported being refused entry for that reason (as they tried to enter once every six weeks, based on their work shift schedule.)

It is not a regulation set in stone; it is a policy interpretation of a regulation that allows them to bar entry for various ill-defined reasons .. most often applied at Bangkok airports.

@Marc *******

It was the comment that Ray responded to:

"If they were going to deny him entry on an exempt entry for some reason, they'd also deny him entry with a tourist visa."

That statement is both false and on the same topic of visa versus no visa.