Wiceman

Hope I explain this right. I am just about to renew my one year multiple entry visa for the first time. I retired here planing to go back to Canada for a few months each year. We also did some regional travel last year (korea and Burma) so multiple entry visa was bought . What I noticed is that when I came back a few weeks before my year was up I was stamped for another year. So my 3,800 Baht multiple entry one year visa became a 23 month visa with the caveat that the last 12 months of that 23 month period I had to stay in country. I plan to do the same thing when I renew it and do all of our international travel in the first 11 and half months and then enter back and stay put for the following 12. Hope this helps.

Not sure why you thought you had to stay in the country for those 12 months.

You got a multiple re-entry permit after you got your last one entry prior your visa expiring to keep it valid I presume. That permit would allow you to leave and re-enter the country as many times as you want up to the date it expires.

My fist multiple entry visa was obtained in Canada and was issued on the 09 of September 2014 and valid until the 08 of September 2015.

I arrived in Thailand in October of 2014 and traveled to Burma and Korea during the next six months. I went back to Canada in May of 2015 and came back to Thailand in August 2015. I was expecting to renew my visa a few weeks after coming back(before the visa expiry of Sept 08 2015). Thing is when I got home to Kanchanaburi I looked at the stamp they gave me and it says arrival 19 Aug 2015 valid until 18 Aug 2016. I deduced from this that if I left again I would have an expired visa but if I stayed my one year status would have restarted from my last arrival (Aug 19 2015). Thus the over 12 month validation. A friend here says I can get one time exit visa from the immigration office if I had a burning desire to see a concert in Singapore for example. Not sure as it's all new to me. Sure is comfortable here though.

Hope I explain this right. I am just about to renew my one year multiple entry visa for the first time. I retired here planing to go back to Canada for a few months each year. We also did some regional travel last year (korea and Burma) so multiple entry visa was bought . What I noticed is that when I came back a few weeks before my year was up I was stamped for another year. So my 3,800 Baht multiple entry one year visa became a 23 month visa with the caveat that the last 12 months of that 23 month period I had to stay in country. I plan to do the same thing when I renew it and do all of our international travel in the first 11 and half months and then enter back and stay put for the following 12. Hope this helps.

No your right MTH I'm confused and naive. I have just arrived and a little overwhelmed.

I mean usually I will research something before replying. So many others have drilled down to the differing amounts involved, the photo of the funds and the location of the incident. I only went on the words and photos of the initial story. in short I spoke to soon.

I’m amazed that there are so few here on the forum realizing that most likely the amount of money lost was about

220K not 2.2M Baht

Handing over 10K as a finder’s fee is close to 5% and maybe a bit on the low side, but still a very nice reward for a good deed.

Sorry to everyone for jumping the gun.

I let this persons title and disheveled look prejudice my opinion of his actions.

He drops 2.2 million bht = $67,600 in the street & only rewards the good lady with 10,000 bht = $307......tight fisted bas****. I hope he rethinks his reward & seeks out the lady to offer more

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Anyone else here all bitter and twisted because they missed out an a free lunch?

10,000 baht for the good luck of finding this bag and turning it in to the police if pretty fair I reckon.

That's what my wife says as well. She said allot of traditional Thais would have given the reward money back saying it's reward enough just doing the right thing. I guess I still have a few things to learn.

What an idiot!

I wouldn't have him teaching tricks to a dog let alone English to a Thai. At 63 why isn't he retired anyway?

"Why isn't he retired"? Because we don't have good pensions in America anymore and the middle class has eroded exponentially over the last 20 years. Unless you're lucky enough to have been a high paid executive or have a good government job or high ranking military job, you're left with Social Security at age 65 which is very small money (if you take SS early at age 62 it's really small) and you must pay very high medical insurance costs (we don't have the NHS like the UK or good health care like Canada that's included as a citizen benefit). Plus our property prices have not gone thru the roof and exploded like UK property owners who got lucky and became millionaires just because they bought a flat in London 20 years ago. So, unless you made big money and invested wisely most Americans have to continue to work as long as they are physically able, that is, if they even have a job that pays a living wage. Now 40% of Americans make less than the 1968 minimum wage (inflation adjusted). That's one of the reasons I live here because of financial concerns...

Well said.