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There are no rules forbidding you from coming and going as much as you want, as long as you have a multiple entry visa or reentry permit. And there is certainly no "maximum number of exits" - Thailand isn't trying to force you to stay here against your will. Of course, if you're on an ED visa for a study program that expects you to attend courses every day, immigration might wonder how you're meeting your educational commitments if you keep missing class... If you ask a question which is specifically about how you can do your "business", people won't be able to help you unless they understand that "business" - in other words, what your situation is and what you're trying to accomplish. Being rude to the people who are trying to assist you isn't the best way of soliciting good advice.

Once again, they are arresting trafficking victims instead of providing them with assistance. This is exactly how a country ends up on the TIP watchlist (again).

This article and form are concerned with Vietnamese people applying for local retirement/pension benefits, not about foreigners getting retirement visas.

It's not just mail from the US - this is a "thing" that comes from companies or government agencies contracting with logistics companies in other countries. I received eyeglasses sent from China with a return address in Malmo, Sweden, and printer parts - also mailed from China - with a shipping address in Singapore.

They have been announcing a transition to digital lottery sales since Thaksin was PM, so I won't hold my breath.

The children acted like adults in this matter, and the adult, well, behaved like a whiny child. I'm sure the students are also just as aware as we are that in every previous case like this one, it has turned out that an administrator was siphoning off the school lunch money for personal use.

Various online publications have been posting these "Vietnam is one of the best places in the world to retire!!" articles regularly for years, and they somehow always manage to omit the fact that there's not actually any visa that would permit it. I know folks who lived in Vietnam for decades on tourist visas and bogus business visas, but the authorities began cracking down on that a couple of years ago, and it's no longer a realistic way to spend an extended time there. As noted above, marrying a Vietnamese is really the only option for an indefinite stay at this point.

Better yet, don't drive a motorcycle, period. No matter how careful you are, you will inevitably be the loser in any run-in with a larger vehicle.

Or shrimp, which is also dried on the road in some areas?

This is phrased to make it sound as though this is some silly excuse that these countries have invented, which it isn't. Unfortunately, the reality is that Thais have a long history of overstaying and working illegally in both western countries and wealthy Asian nations, and those countries are well aware of that history. For the US in particular, one of the requirements for joining the Visa Waiver Program is a visitor visa refusal rate under 3%. The refusal rate for Thais is closer to 20%, which means there's a long, long way to go before a mutual visa exemption has any chance at all of being implemented. As noted above, it's not "hubris", but reality. And yes, Thailand absolutely could decide to only exempt visas for nationalities whose own countries do the same for Thais, just as Brazil and Indonesia have periodically done in the name of third-world honor. That would be shooting themselves in the foot, though, and laying waste to a very lucrative tourism industry for no reason other than feeling a momentary glow of nationalistic pride.

This is all turning into low comedy.

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I really wish the Thaiger would stop using Chat GPT to write its articles - the overuse of adjectives becomes exhausting to read.

The place appears to be the size of a football field, so the "secret" must not have been kept very well.

"The September 15th order imposes a clearer obligation in relation to tax reporting for foreign residents in Thailand. "In any case, this applies even if they are registered in their own countries and can take advantage of tax treaties with 59 countries that Thailand has agreements with. All foreign residents, in theory, must still account for tax on an annual basis." This rather dramatic interpretation of the new rule appears to be an invention of the writer, as it isn't what the actual text of the rule says at all. In fact, we still have no idea what the precise impact of the change will be.

Prior to reorganization, Thai Airways had many A330s in its fleet, but decided to stop using them. What has changed?

It was supposed to have moved back to its original location next to the Mo Chit BTS station once construction of the BTS was completed, but instead the land there has been used for...absolutely nothing. The planned high rise over the train depot was never built, and the land in front of the depot is used for free car parking.

Those are all triple the price of what the OP is looking at in China.

So they arrested the trafficking victims rather than offering them protection - this is one of the specific reasons that they keep getting low rankings on the Trafficking in Persons Reports, and yet they keep doing it (and then keep complaining about their low ranking).

But you're not a convicted felon serving a prison sentence. If you've ever dealt with the Thai corrections system, you would know that they typically afford prisoners no privacy rights whatsoever - except, miraculously, in the case of Thaksin, where those rights are suddenly sacrosanct.

Yes but you have to register your marriage in the US , and chase a whole different paper trail . You do not have to "register" a foreign marriage in the US, and in fact there is no way of doing so. As others have noted, foreign marriages are fully recognized in the US, and are equivalent to US marriages when it comes to US immigration matters. Also, many people are assuming that the OP will need to file for a K1 in order to marry in the US. From the way he phrased his question, though, I'm assuming that his wife already has a US tourist visa, so they would just be registering their marriage during a brief US holiday (which is perfectly legal). He might get more useful advice if he could clarify that issue.

They've been running essentially the same article every few weeks for the last several months, so we already know about these grand plans. How about if we hold off on more stories until there's actually real progress to report?

If you have a passport from a country on their visa exemption list, yes. That list doesn't include the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or many others.

I really wish they would stop this idiocy of referring to everything around this time of year as "a gift to the people", as though the cost won't eventually be paid by those same people via taxes.

Every holiday season, the authorities face the same dilemma: "how can we lower the number of road fatalities in a way that involves absolutely no work on our part?"