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Dear Thailand organic Farmers

My girlfriend and I are planning to travel Southeast Asia from this July for a couple months. We are keen to learn about organic agriculture and get some practice farming in Thailand. Both of us have some experience gardening.

We have gone through the list on the official WWOOFing website, but I wanted to check if there might be any other farmers on this site who aren’t on the WWOOFing network.

Please PM me for a resume.

I’m planning to go for a visa run next week to the Mai Sai/Tachilek border.

I’m trying to stay up to date on the martial law, crackdown, and lack of constitution, using this website, but I thought I’d pop into my friendly local immigration office to see about it myself.

The officer told me that sure, I could go out/in and get a 15-day stamp. Even considering I’ve got three tourist visa exemptions since February this year in my US passport.

Or I could ask for a 30-day entry, and “his friend at Mae Sai" would “ask me why I don’t just get a tourist visa” instead. The reason is simply, I’m in Thailand. I asked him if there is a fee, and he said, “there might be.” But I think this was his way of saying I might have to, shall we say, leave a tip, if want a month’s re-entry. By the way, he seemed unsure if 3 or 4 entries was the limit.

My question for you folks is, do you think we’re talking five hundred baht? Two thousand? The (legit) 7-day extension costs 1900B. Getting a month might be higher if we used linear logic. But I don’t want to go in and offer a baht more than I have to.

I’d really appreciate y’alls best estimates.

Hi everyone--my first post!

I went to Mae Sai today for a tourist visa run. As I'm American, I got a 30 day visa. It's free.

I'd been asking around for weeks whether or not Mae Sai (or Myawaddy for that matter) offer 30-day tourist visas. It appears that they keep changing it and people are confused. Today I saw the sign upon exiting Thailand what countries get 15 days and what countries get 30 days. The sign was old and faded, but on the list, besides some countries' names, someone had drawn little stars next to countries whose citizens get 30 days.

Unfortunately I didn't take the time to copy down for y'all which countries were specifically listed for 30 day tourist visas, but I'd say there were about 10. What khwaibah said about it being G7 could be right.

By the way, I kept reading on this forum (and elsewhere) that there's a one-day grace period after overstaying a visa, then you might pay 1000B for overstaying two days. Not for me. I paid 500B for one day overstay. The officer nearly forgot to hit me with the overstay so I can imagine some people get the easy treatment. Maybe it was because I had overstayed before and they are harder on repeat 'offenders'.