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An established member with a number of posts and time on this forum makes such more of a credible source. Pity the same dude has to create multiple new accounts to post the similar story each time.

The same old bored farang jealous of people who are here on tourist visas keeps on creating new accounts and fake denied / almost denied first posts.

Man, the Mods really need to ban this same old dude on a retirement visa setting up all these new accounts and troll posting these nonsense crap about being denied entry all over Thailand on a tourist visa. Old dude has nothing better to do with his time than to post troll nonsense on every new account with one post.

Lots of Thais are making Tiktok videos lipsinking to this song. It's been popping up every time I've scrolled though Tiktok. Are they being racist against themselves? :)

Someone must have really bad vision to leave a CLEAR plastic bag full of cash on the side of the street. Probably thought it was full of rubbish and left it on the side of the street for the garbage truck people to come and pick it up

Good news for all the hookers here, they're gonna be rich a lot quicker as more and more customers are coming

Honest & aggressive lawyers. That's an oxymoron.

Why hasn't the Mods moved this topic into the Money, Banking & Investments section as this clearly has nothing to do with Visas. Mods, are you asleep at the wheel for a week already? OP wants to know where he can get the best ROI on his 800k money

Did the Thai man mistake the Thai woman for a male Indian tourist somehow?

Racism?

At least 350 million baht of the OP's friend shouldn't even consider coming to Pattaya

1000 baht fine and/or potential lockup in immigration detention if caught on overstay.

90 days isn't exactly 3 months. 31 days + 30 days + 31 days = 92 days in total for a 3 month period.

I don't see any issues with that

Why are you concerned about having an ED visa? Lots of people have had ED visas in the past, or was yours something dodgy to be concerned about?

I would hope they identify me as a "man" when entering an airport or a land border crossing. I do tick the "Male" checkbox on the TM6 arrival card when entering by land. Hope they aren't identifying me as a female, ladyboy, or any of these pronouns that's going around these days.

Might be nice to mention which shopping mall it was at rather than just a vague "prominent Thai shopping mall"

Why was it when people were using agents for dodgy visas like volunteering visas and doing fake visa runs where the foreigner stays in Thailand but the agent takes the passport to get stamped with dodgy stamps, why was it always the foreigner gets in trouble and has issues down the line, not these agents?

Yep, too many dodgy folks here on this forum willing to bribe their way out of everything.

Then don't bother with an agent, because you will certainly be doing something illegal, dodgy and fraud. Don't talk BS that you "are keeping your conscience clean" when you are bribing immigration officers via bribes paid to an agent. What a load of BS you wrote about keeping your conscience being kept clean when you clearly know bribes will be involved. If you're not looking to do anything illegal, you won't be renewing your retirement visa as you were below the 800k and the only way to fix this is via bribes. So your option is to leave the country and get an alternative visa.

If committing fraud to produce false documents, instead of paying an agent to commit fraud on your behalf, couldn't the OP or you in this case just make fake bank statements yourself and save yourself the 10,000 baht? I guess you'd need to be decent with Photoshop or a similar computer program. Benefits being 10k saved and you are still committing a crime of fraud either way but you have an extra 10k in your pocket at the end of the day.

How do these auto gates stamp your passport with an exit stamp next to your entry stamp? Curious to know this.

I'd be more worried about the multiple tiny hidden cameras they've got set up in your bathroom and bedroom. You get one of those hidden security scanner things to find them asap.

Any particular reasons? Seems a little bit further on the map travel wise.

Yes, I'm certain. I've asked Jomtien Immigration two times already each time I've gone to do a TM30 and they've said the exact same thing.