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16 minutes ago, tjintx said:

Maybe Immigration saw the film...and recognized you for the violent bigot you are.

Oh come on now.  I suppose you also think the swastika I have tattooed on the back of my neck, the "I'm here for the Ho's" t-shirt I was wearing, and the fact I haven't bathed in over a week might have also been a problem.

7 hours ago, South said:

33+ years here, never, not once ever had a problem.

Your point?  I have been coming here for 20+ years, not once ever having a problem....until now.  My plan until this happened was to use Thailand as a base and travel around Asia for 6 months of the year.  The 6 month multi-entry is supposed to be designed precisely for that exact purpose.

3 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

How did you present yourself?

 

Are you a typical looking guy, full of tattoos, missing teeth, hair in disarray, smell like a gunja plant, barefoot and dressed in torn clothing?

If you stand out, you're going to get attention. 

 

We need more information.

 

On arrival, were you normal looking, tidy hair style, dressed in collared shirt, trousers, how about wearing an expensive cologne etc. It's a little extreme but if you are exposed try something different. 

 

Look at the Arabs and Indians arriving, they know that will be targeted but they fool some with their false representation. 

 

My appearance or smell was absolutely positively not it, but thanks for the laugh. As you can see from my picture below, I am a distinguished older gentleman of impeccable taste and charm.

Hopefully this is something SCOTUS cannot try mess with since it is a civil state trial.  I would not put anything past them trying to find some loophole to get around that.

47 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

And now you ask here and expect an answer?

 

It's like: The police stopped me 3 weeks ago. Tell me why.

Do you have some sort of mental condition where you only see words in bold?

6 minutes ago, AlexRich said:

I think these tighter restrictions have been around for a long time now, several years. The days when you could Visa hop are gone. So you have to plan your trips carefully. Perhaps the best way now is to spend a few months in several countries, restricting Thailand to 90 days. That way you won’t have to worry about the tax complication. Not a good option for those who have long term girlfriends, but they are better on a retirement visa whilst being careful on money transfers. It’s a lot more complicated now.

But the rules say I can come and go as much as I want on a multi-entry within 6 months.  They also say you can come and go from airports as much as you want on waiver on arrival, within reason.  If those are not the rules then change them.  The uncertainly of what random immigration agents decide to do, depending how they feel that day, even if you do everything by the book, is the problem.

9 minutes ago, wasabi said:

I agree that this is not new. My wife and I had the same experience on a METV about 5 years ago and after being treated like criminals when we tried to reenter on our legally issued Thai visas we questioned if we wanted to continue visiting Thailand. We decided we wouldn't let that experience stop us from all the other things we love about Thailand, so we got Thailand Elite visas and are now whisked through immigration hassle-free. Not cheap but membership has its privileges.

I could do that, or just get a retirement visa since I am over 50.  That's not the point.  The point is that I followed the rules and was still made to feel unwelcome.  No guarantees that getting either of those other visas will solve that.  It makes me want to reconsider retiring here when there are other countries who seem to have much more welcoming visa rules for people like me.  There are limits to what I will put up with no matter how much I like it here.  The new tax rules are another thing that concern me.  It's not just this.

2 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

 

It's not new.

What you are talking about is people who do stuff that is not by the book.  Multiple border runs and just doing visa waivers several times over and over again.  I didn't do that.  Everything I did was completely by the book.

This is a first for me.  I did everything by the book as far as I can tell.  I'll follow the rules but it would help to know what the rules are.  I've been in Thailand almost 5 months on a multi-entry visa.  Extended by 30 days once and did a border run to renew for another 60 days.  Then I went to Vietnam for several days.  During that time my multi-entry visa expired so I knew I could not use that again on re-entry.  However, I am going back to my home country within 30 days, so I knew that a waiver on arrival would suffice. 

Upon arrival they pulled me off to the side and kept asking me what I am doing here.  What do I do for work.  Do I have a girlfriend here.  How long am I staying.  They asked me how long I am staying several times.  I think what ultimately saved me is when I showed them my return ticket back to my home country within 30 days.  However, they didn't ask for it.  They didn't seem to want to give me a 30 day waiver no matter what.  I had to sell it to them that I was definitely going back home within 30 days this time, no more border runs or extensions.  I will not be here longer than 6 months total and this is the first 30-day waiver on arrival I have gotten in that time.  I was out of the country more than just a couple days so that can't be it either.  What was the problem exactly?  They never really said and I didn't want to ask.  Once I got my stamp I was out of there.  This new BS trying to get back in and all the other bureaucratic hassles for renewals piling up, like the TM30 requirement they are getting strict about, and now the tax thing, doesn't make me feel very welcome here anymore. 

Vietnam is talking about give out 90 day visa waivers on arrival for people from North America.  They don't seem to care how many times you do border runs to renew that, land or air, so if that happens then Vietnam will start to look a lot more appealing to me.  Philippines doesn't have any visa hassles either.  Also, no tax issues to worry about.

4 minutes ago, siwiek said:

OP,

 

I think they are "cracking down" on arrivals from Kuala Lumpur airport.

 

seems word is out that many white guys are using fake boarding passes from KL, or doing shady border hopping from Phuket to KL, so seems it's a red flag to them currently

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1314130-currently-stuck-in-phuket-airport-denied-entry/

 

Did it ever occur to you that this could be the same person that started both threads?   Hence the skepticism of any account with little or no post history.

35 minutes ago, bbi1 said:

Man, the Mods really need to ban this same old dude on a retirement visa setting up all these new accounts and troll posting these nonsense crap about being denied entry all over Thailand on a tourist visa. Old dude has nothing better to do with his time than to post troll nonsense on every new account with one post.

Definitely some kind of wind up if this is what they have to say on their first post with a new account.