At least bring your lease contract and bill! So you can oroof hat you stayed and paid

i know someone who rents a condo for the year and only comes 4 or 5 times per year for 10 days or so! it is cheap rent and he likes his stuff here in his room instead of take it with him all the time

@Robert ******

okay chiang mai is different! How can you get proof of address if you are not booked in? And get drivers licence or bank account and visa etc?

Have you been booked in on a tm30 at immigration by your landlord or yourself? They will not allow you to stay anywhere without a tm30.... they will fine you first with 1600 baht if you did not.....

@Robert ******

the visa cost is 5000 baht but you only can get a visa if you have a qualifying volunteering job isn't it? You can get this through an agent and all of those agents offer the complete package including a job and paperwork visa contact with immigration officer etc etc. This total package incl visa is everywhere offered for 33.000 baht! Tell me if it is different.

@Lloyd *******

why don't you google it when you want to know instead of shouting what nobody sugested?

A combat visa is issued by yhai government for 1 year when you take every 14 days 2 x 4 hours of self defence training. Age and experience is not important for this one. In same schools come many police and army people. Very nice and easy type of visa. Only for chiang mai. Just google chiang mai combat visa......

Or get a volunteering visa 1 year or a combat visa 1 year. Both cost baht.....

Wow

@Tod ********

i have friends a couple over 50 and they are trying that already for a few years. They say the one time 800 fee is only when you have a thai spouse. It is all very difficult i guess! I will tell them your story and see how they react. They are 6-8 months in thailand and the rest in their home country.

U can send me a pm if u don't want to mix up this post too much as what you said...