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  1. The single entry Non O visa based on marriage to a Thai should be OK in either Hanoi or HCMC. However, the embassy in Hanoi is unfriendly. As mentioned above, there is often a wait to get an appointment in HCMC. They may ask to see financial proof.
  2. This is not true. The spouse of someone with a work permit and one-year extension of stay can get a visa and extension of stay to live with their spouse.
  3. Hah, 42 includes everything (including every possible necessary visa). The mice never got around to determining the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything, excluding visas.
  4. As a matter of interest, did you consider the Special Tourist Visa, provided during Covid and allowing a 270-day stay to be a tourist visa? Were people using it tourists? In your view, is someone who stays from August until April of the following year on tourist visas a valid tourist (not resident for tax purposes) but someone who stays from January to July not a valid tourist? When is a regular single or multiple entry tourist visa a "valid" visa, and where can the rules that document this be found? I have always considered that any visa issued by an embassy or consulate is valid, and ought only to be abrogated by Immigration subject to Section 12 of the Immigration Act (a policy followed by almost all land crossings and some airports, but ignored by some Immigration officials elsewhere).
  5. I might go for a Thailand Elite membership A Thai investment visa is a terrible idea. An Education visa is not possible at all if you need to travel, and is not a long term option these days, unless you want to study at university. Marriage? Are you suggesting a marriage of convenience? Personally, I would never consider it to solve my visa issues. Those in same sex relationships are out of luck, even if married (abroad). Most people who are working (digital nomads with overseas clients) do not qualify for any of the visa options you suggest.
  6. A word of warning if planning the KL run. There is no issue with a same day return as far as the Malaysian authorities are concerned, BUT EVEN WITH A MULTIPLE ENTRY TOURIST VISA, immigration at Phuket airport MIGHT deny you entry if you are a long stay tourist doing a same day visa run. It depends on your immigration history and luck.
  7. Apart from tourist or education visas, what other visa options do you suggest for those under age 50? Thailand Elite membership, never a cheap option, is now really expensive.
  8. For many people, the cost of travelling to their home countries and staying for a few days is substantial. That is without considering that people might not want to do that. They might prefer to spend the time in Thailand. Also, bear in mind, that people have been refused serial METVs, and it has even been known for people with tourist visas to be denied entry. EDIT: Yes, you can try to circumvent the rule that you must apply for an METV in your home country by using a VPN (and falsifying the passport copies you submit) but that involves risk.
  9. They were originally planning to set the price of the 5-year membership even higher! My suspicion is that it will kill the Western market. I am not sure about Chinese, Russian and Middle East buyers. I think for many of them, the price is elastic. Time will tell.
  10. Following a revamp of the Thailand Elite program last year, the minimum membership is now 900,000 baht (5 years)
  11. That was true until recently. I departed January 12th and you now apply for a re-entry permit AFTER passing Immigration. You do so by walking all the way to the left after passing through Immigration.
  12. Some officers, on exit, will advise you that you might need a re-entry permit. However, this cannot be relied upon.
  13. Do you mean a Non O multiple entry visa (90 days on each entry valid for one year from the date of issue)? If so, do You have a Thai spouse? Those are the main grounds on which you can apply for a multiple entry Non O visa. If instead, you are just intending to entry Thailand as a tourist, wishing to be here 90 days, get a single entry tourist visa (60 days on entry) and extend for a further 30 days at an immigration office here near the end of the initial permission to stay.
  14. Indeed, transfers, each and every month, of 65,000 baht or more into your Thai bank account is the only option for those who cannot get an income letter from their embassy. That is very different from an average pre-tax income of 65,000 baht per month or more whether brought into Thailand or not. Note that there is no need with an income letter to transfer money to Thailand when you are not there.
  15. This is abnormal. Certainly, it is not a Thai immigration requirement.
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