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1 hour ago, Matzzon said:

That question is outdated. Of course there is a reason, and that is:

The OP is not 50 and/or not have the money to apply for a retirement visa
The OP is not married and can therefore not apply for a Non-O based on that.

The OP has no children to base a long stay visa on.
The OP has no work or business in Thailand for getting by on a Non-B visa.
 

Here there is always ED-visa, but as it is the unwritten rules are already broken and can not be fixed by turning to that kind of visa.

The question is valid as he/she does not meet the generally accepted description of a tourist and has not indicated if all/any of the other routes are possible or not.

5 hours ago, dzodun said:

So if I want to stay in Thailand for another four or five months, would it be better to go to Savannakhet and apply for a 2 month tourist visa, which would carry me over to next year, then do another visa exempt, followed by a 30 day extension for 1900 baht at Immigration. That would give me 4 months, taking me to early March of 2020?
Thanks for your help. ( I am from the U.S.).

You don't meet the generally accepted description of a tourist if you're staying here for 7 or 8 months.  Is there any reason you don't get an appropriate visa for your purposes?

25 minutes ago, Chelseafan said:

Really? Emirates handed me a FT when I travelled in August.

Yes, really.  Since July IIRC, and discussed on here at the time.

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1116550-no-more-fast-track-coupon/#comments

How are you uninstalling it?  Try one of these techniques if you haven't already.

https://magiskroot.net/uninstall-magisk-module-twrp/

Fast track cards are no longer issued.  Keep your boarding pass to show at fast track immigration.

Fast track passes were discontinued months ago.  Boarding pass for Business Class or above is now required.

The fact that there are two separate tickets may complicate matters a bit more, but without knowing the airlines it's impossible to advise their policies.

On 10/19/2019 at 10:08 AM, geoffbarnes11 said:

Hi Everyone,

I will be flying Heathrow to Bangkok, with the intention of asking for Visa Exempt, my return flight is 58 days later, I plan to get a 30 day extention at Jomtien, will the Airline and Immigration accept this or should I buy a Flight showing onward travel within 30 days? 

When the check in agent is checking the screen for entry requirements say to her/him to look at the bottom and it should say something along the lines of "a visa exempt entry may be extended in country". This should be enough to persuade them, although the advice given by theoldgit is safer.

3 hours ago, FredGallaher said:

I'm having a hard time believing you. This is about visa entries not trips to the can.

12 visa exempt entries in 4 years, which is how I read Tuvoc's post, is not particularly high.  I have a similar amount and until earlier this year I was just a regular holidaymaker making the most of my leave.

I has the same problem as the OP a few weeks ago, immediately after an update and mentioned it here:

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1126521-online-tm6-form-anyone-used-it/#comments

One guy claimed he was past that stage but never said what he'd entered despite repeated asking.

The benefit of it over the regular form filling is that it's intended you use the camera on your phone to read your passport and import these details to both arrival and departure sides of the form, eliminating errors in these fields and duplication of effort.

7 hours ago, UncleMhee said:

Is anyone using the Chonburi Immigration app to do extensions yet?

Not me, but even if you do you still need to attend in person.  For each of the different application types, it gives TM7 as a requirement and says must be done in person.  Maybe entering the other data makes it available to Immigration on line for a smoother process, but that's all I can think it does.

18 minutes ago, BritTim said:

Of course, you could try telling immigration that you were planning only to transfer in Bangkok. If they believe you, denied entry is unlikely in the first place. What happens if you "change your mind" and fail to take the other flight, who knows?

You'd need to put "1 day" for the length of stay on your TM6, but that might be worth doing anyway.

The times are wrong for the additional flights on Tue/Thu/Sun.  UTH-BKK should be depart 21:20, arrive 22:30.

Total cost for the 10 baht flights is under 500 baht return.

Between Diana Estate and Chunky Monkey around a month to six weeks ago.  45 baht San Mig or Heineken.

17 minutes ago, TheAppletons said:

And yes, entering Thailand on an O-A visa after 31 October 2019 appears to require health insurance, proof of which will be demanded upon each entry, if the linked articles are accurate.

I think any check would be done at the visa application stage rather than on entry.  Or do you think both?

26 minutes ago, Huckenfell said:

OK So you say DMK-BNE, but are you sure that its not DMK-Coolangatta ?

Service started on 26th June this year.

https://newsroom.airasia.com/news/2019/6/26/airasia-expands-australian-network-as-new-brisbane-bangkok-service-takes-off

4 hours ago, Why Me said:

RobbyXNorway, that would be quite surprising if they could make a passable copy of such an advanced phone at much cheaper price. I believe the S10+ has the fingerprint reader built into the bottom of the screen. Amazing if they could do all that without having a high-tech  production line, in which case why not sell their own brand name.

With big name items you pay for the name, the hardware itself can be made much cheaper hence all the Chinese phones with just as good specs and lower prices.

It's so difficult to break into the market that copies are often a better (short term at least) business option.

1 minute ago, White Christmas13 said:

If you would have read some of my other post you

would have realized that, I mentioned many times

in other topics, and the ones you seen in 1st class

are most properly business men or retired 

business men.

If I had read any of your other posts that contained as much nonsense as the initial one in this thread I would have commented appropriately or laughed at them too.

Even if premium passengers are "most properly business men or retired business men" (sic) that does not exclude pensioners from being there too.  Get over the fact you posted rubbish.

2 minutes ago, White Christmas13 said:

So pensioners who just rely on the pension and have no private pension(super)

can afford to travel 1st class from Australia to Thailand twice a year ? pull

the other leg

Your initial post did not limit it to those who "just rely on the pension and have no private pension(super)", nor did it mention 1st Class, nor did it mention twice a year so now your stretching things just to justify a poor post which I joked about due to the poor syntax.  Other(s) got the joke but you chose to keep on digging even after it was pointed out.  Slow day perhaps?

42 minutes ago, White Christmas13 said:

use your brain pensioners don't have much money duh

Whoosh!!!

For info, many pensioners fly in Business Class.

29 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

It was quite obviously a joke.

Thank you.

22 hours ago, White Christmas13 said:

Well I don't fly business class, because I am a pensioner  . . . .

What airline has a rule that excludes pensioners from travelling in Business Class?  Ridiculous. ????

20 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Then most useless tip is that the (problematic) Emirates app is available from the I-tunes Store. Ideal for Android users????

It is also available for Android.

20 hours ago, Tony125 said:

  9 hours ago, lupin said:

you do understand you cannot work in any way shape or form in Thailand on the Elite Visa right? It falls under the classification of a tourist visa and specifically states this on application/terms and conditions and on their website faq.

I don't care about work.

I thought it had already been clarified upthread that the idea of an Elite Visa (Type PE?) is not that of a Tourist Visa (Type TR) even if it falls under the same category.  One lets you stay full time and one doesn't.  Like others, I wish there were clear rules around Tourist Visa entries/durations of stay, but most of the TR cases refused are clearly too far away from being described as tourists.

Do a factory reset yourself if it'll put your mind at rest.

Anything on the help pages of any assistance:

https://www.emirates.com/english/help/faq/418100/how-do-i-access-the-emirates-com-mobile-site?faqId=418100&frl=how-do-i-access-the-emirates-com-mobile-site