Thanks for sorting that confusion @CO-CO . This is the first time I have ever heard of a visa exempt to non O without a brown envelope. Is this now a thing ????
My wife did not slip any brown envelope to anyone.Thanks for sorting that confusion @CO-CO . This is the first time I have ever heard of a visa exempt to non O without a brown envelope. Is this now a thing ????
UNLESS...... Mrs Dearculler slipped the envelope while hubby was not looking. . Not that I am casting for a Sturgeon.
This is very confusing statement to begin with. I mean why? "We had to update it" ? Only the land lord submits that a foreigner is lodged on the property nothing to do with the foreigner. How is this even a requirement to get a visa ?
OK then , It must be a thing now. But one thing I like to point out. Before I retired I visited every year visa exempt then when I retired I stayed 3 months on a non O. On the very next trip I came in visa exempt. I was pulled a side at Immi Swampy and they threatened me with non entry. I had proved the last trip I had a Thai wife and entering the country visa exempt was not the right way/visa to enter Thailand. It was stamped in my old passport to note no visa exempt. Fork that was 2016.
OK then , It must be a thing now. But one thing I like to point out. Before I retired I visited every year visa exempt then when I retired I stayed 3 months on a non O. On the very next trip I came in visa exempt. I was pulled a side at Immi Swampy and they threatened me with non entry. I had proved the last trip I had a Thai wife and entering the country visa exempt was not the right way/visa to enter Thailand. It was stamped in my old passport to note no visa exempt. Fork that was 2016.
Yes Yes @CO-CO It is always me.
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On my renewal, 2 months after moving into our new place, ZE GESHTAPO dropped in for a visit--no drama, scratched their nuts and left.Beware of the poster's nuances in telling the tale.
Absolutely correct. I had no argument with them over this. I was pointing out this is why Immi did not permit visa after exempt entry. But there seems to of been a policy change. Until I try. No I won't only kidding.Nothing new there @Rice (I don't mean just you being the victim all the time
The authorities don't like repetitive exempt entries - never have, and they have periodic purges. I believe that it comes under their umbrella of 'having the appropriate visa to match your circumstances in Thailand '....visa exempt is for short-term tourism; being married to a Thai (or having retirement accommodation) does not fit with visa exempt.
Classic case is workers in the oil and gas industry who typically work one month on, one month off. Visa exempt suits them perfectly - but it doesn't suit Thai Immigration who would rightly claim that the visa exempt system was being abused when they were effectively living in Thailand for half the year.
IMO the situation you described (not sure if 1 x 3 month Non-O and 1 x visa exempt is the full story) you were not abusing the system - the Non-O was appropriate for what was a longer stay and no one in their right mind would pay for another visa if they knew they were staying less than a month.