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In principle, yes, but depending on your history of stays in Thailand, they might be unwilling to give you a visa. Not known as a particularly friendly embassy.

You cannot use an eVisa for Cambodia at the border crossing that those companies use. Only a few select few land borders allow these.

Quite a few people have stayed in Thailand throughout Covid, same as you, and have managed to come back. There's no hard rule as to how long a tourist can stay, but depending on the policies of the checkpoint you use, being admitted cannot be taken for granted either. Ban Laem makes money from border run companies, so the fact that you showed up there on your own AND with an overstay certainly didn't work in your favor. I don't see any reason to wait for 6-12 months though. Make it a holiday to look less like a desperate border runner, then try again elsewhere, preferably with a tourist visa.

Thanks for the update. If you do wish to return to Thailand, I wouldn't pay too much attention to what the IOs told you, it's more or less just their local policy there with regards to border runs. You could probably travel to Laos and enter Thailand overland from there. To increase your chances further, you could obtain a tourist visa in Vientiane or Savannakhet first.

There has definitely been a change at some point. When renewing ATM cards, for example, Kasikorn Bank used to just copy the ID page of my passport, nowadays they copy the latest extension stamp as well. To me, this makes perfect sense. Not allowing banks to do business with people who aren't in Thailand legally is just one way to make overstaying more difficult.

You could study Thai at college level, to get a bachelor degree. That typically takes 4 years and is perfectly acceptable.

I've seen people pay overstay fines at the Ban Laem checkpoint before and there's a window for that, did you queue up at that window first and they sent you away? Either your overstay is too long or they are worried that you want to come back immediately, as that's a border crossing that's popular with border bouncers. They might let you out if you assure them that you'll stay in Cambodia. Otherwise I'd say fly out, that's the most hassle-free way to resolve an overstay.

Yes, no matter when you apply, it will start to run when your current permission to stay ends.

Seeing those old goats quibble would be quite amusing, IF they weren't guilty of holding the country back for many years with their dangerous mix of ineptitude and nepotism. The sooner they're out, the better.

They're not interested In a flight ticket when you apply for an extension. Some immigration offices might be willing to let you apply this early, but others are not. You could try.

So instead of improving that shoddy system, they're rolling it out to even more places. Insanity!

I always got US dollars back from them in the past, but would try to have exact change if possible. If they run out of change, who knows?

When Big Joke was in charge of immigration, he already made the bold claim that they've all been caught. Sensationalist headlines aside, the truth is that they keep finding people with hundreds or thousands of days of overstay to their name - whenever they look and wherever they look. I keep thinking that those they manage to catch are just the tip of the iceberg.

If you don't mind spending a few days in Vientiane and ensure that you make an appointment for the day you want to apply, getting a tourist visa in Vientiane would be an easy process.

No idea why people would keep their life savings with a poorly regulated fintech company. They might be useful for transactional banking, but I'd never leave a substantial amount in any accounts with them. As for Revolut in particular, just watch an interview with the founder and try not to get the impression that he's quite shady. I tried and failed, enough said.

Not anymore. The last two times I changed phones, it could all be done from home - within Thailand and using the same SIM card though.

He's a great guy. While he obviously can't solve all of Bangkok's many problems during his time in office, at least his heart is in the right place and he's making a credible effort. Unlike his predecessors I've seen. Keep it up!

That's not possible once you're already on overstay. As @ubonjoe mentioned, it would have been possible to get an extension for medical reasons / being unable to travel.

Try to obtain a screenshot of your landlord's TM30 report and take it along.

Myanmar land borders remain closed.

They've recently introduced an appointment system, so chances are you can't just rock up anymore. Otherwise I'd expect that it's still a straightforward process, as it used to be.

What's there to fear anyway, with so many safe and effective vaccines! 555

That won't surprise anyone who has spent any time in Thailand.

My condo requires key cards for the elevators and security wouldn't swipe theirs for each and every food delivery rider (hint: there's a steady succession of them) that rocks up. Whatever their policies might be. Case closed. Getting deliveries is bad enough for me. But I would never want to be the kind of useless couch potato that can't even be arsed to pick up the deliveries in the lobby.

Most revolutions start with unlawful acts. How else to get rid of unjust oppression? I'm sure the fact that the English now control Scotland would have been unlawful under Scottish law at some point in history.