johnsukame

I don't understand why some many people here are "confused" it's really very simple. If you're legally working or retired in Thailand then it doesn't affect you at all. The only people it affects are the people who are illegally staying in Thailand exploiting the tourist visa and visa exemptions issued to certain countries. If a Thai person applied for a tourist visa for the USA or any EU country and they were granted the visa, they would not be granted a second tourist visa on the completion of their original tourist visa. Most countries in the EU make you wait a minimum of 90 days from the expiry of your previous tourist visa before they let you apply for a new one.

YOU are confused.

The first part of what you describe is the intent of as yet to be defined policies. Intent and actual policy are not the same thing or else there would be no crime, anywhere, ever. Since none of the details have been announced, and you must have secret sources, please tell me;

How many days does a person have to stay outside Thailand before they are no longer a 'border runner' 2? 3? 10? 100? If not some number of days, then how will immigration decide? Are they psychic? Will it be by lottery? Don't tell me 'they know.'

The rest of your post makes no sense at all. US tourist visas are 10 year multiple entry. And yeah; you can just apply for them back to back. Not that it matters at all.

Tell your secret sources that their messenger is an idiot.

Seems you and your psychic friends take things a little personally.

I was never implying I knew what the new policy for Thai immigrations would be I was merely stating the policies of SOME EU countries as a reference.

The point of my post was that the new Thai immigrations regulations only affect people who are misusing their visas as the only thing you should be doing on a tourist visa is being a tourist.

I don't understand why some many people here are "confused" it's really very simple. If you're legally working or retired in Thailand then it doesn't affect you at all. The only people it affects are the people who are illegally staying in Thailand exploiting the tourist visa and visa exemptions issued to certain countries. If a Thai person applied for a tourist visa for the USA or any EU country and they were granted the visa, they would not be granted a second tourist visa on the completion of their original tourist visa. Most countries in the EU make you wait a minimum of 90 days from the expiry of your previous tourist visa before they let you apply for a new one.

we did everything by post, no websites.

Maybe the post lost your application or it was never delivered or delivered to the wrong desk.

If you submitted the application properly then everything is automatic. There was a website set up by the relevant government agency where you registered with your Thai ID. Once you were registered you filled out all the forms electronically online on their site and basically you couldn't progress until the system registered that each step was completed properly. Once you finished, it had you verify all the answers were correct, then it sent you a copy to your email and told you to print out a copy and mail it to ........... address and that you would receive the money 1 year from the date you registered as the cars owner.