urgh really? Guarentee letter from wife? What would that say? Also certified ID card of wife and certified house reg? Certified from where? Also visa more than the 5000 bahts at Savannakhet?

If you can afford to travel that much why not just get the elite visa, problem solved

@Alan ******

maybe he failled 3 times then because of that went to agent and got cold feet about using fraud stamp? How did he know if it was a fraud stamp if he never tried to use it? :-)

@Tod ********

in LHR they get fined £10 000 if caught letting somone fly with no out ticket.

LHR yea but emorates at Gatwick dont care, well did not before not sure if do now.

You also cannot do the TM30 yourself without written permission (form) from the owner. I also had to do a 160km round trip to get one when I had issue trying to get extension. I wont do that again and dont plan going to immigration again to get extension.

Thanks, I will keep it in mind, this would be in about 12 months time. Would save me a lot of hassle for sure.

@Chris *******

I might then not retire until I am 64 so would get 2 of them free lol The HK criteria is similar to this.

Looking at the criteria seems I could satisfy e or t but the T looks best with 4 years multi entries and yearly reporting

Well currently I work in APAC and getting non o from savannakhet as you suggested. Not working in Thailand. But as it happens there is a strong possibility of a new system going into a BK hospital and my job is installing and training people in APAC so I would be required to do that in BK as no one in APAC can do this task yet, so my question was about switching to the 4 year smart (thought it was 5) once project starts. Ialready had to get a 2 year via for china and another for HK.