@Lynnette ******
i agree with you!I have been living in Thailand for 12 years. The first two years I had an ED visa, but then, after the second visa renewal, the school prepared the documents for me late, and I was overstayed for 4 days! From that moment on, I decided that I had to be the architect of my own destiny, so for the next 10 years, I always entered with a tourist visa! But objectively, it's not fair; you can't live in Thailand or in and other country for 10 years on a tourist visa! However, after my last entry in February, after the Christmas holidays spent with my mum and dad in Italy, immigration didn't want to let me in. After 2 hours of begging and crying from my girlfriend, who had come to Italy with me, they let me in with the promise that I would get married, and I did. However, I had already decided that this year, after 7 years of living together, I would get married. I just had to bring forward the date by a few months (I wanted to do it in October, but I did it at the end of March)!