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32 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

Yeah, use fake tickets! That will be good for all future changes to the worse, when Immigration finally catch up with the wide spread use of those. Thank you for your kind gesture to make things better, Sir.

drop the sarcasm. and its not technically fake, the site reserves the flight and then cancels it later

34 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Having the round trip ticket and a one way ticket out within 3 months would be accepted.

nono, i want to come on a 5 month round trip. could i send the embassy both of my tickets: the 5 month round trip, and the ticket from bestonwardtickets showing going from TH to another country within 60 days

I was just in thailand on a tourist visa, and I applied for my tourist visa by the mail and they require to see your flight information. I had a 3 month roundtrip and that got accepted. Next time I want to go for 5 months. Ubonjoe said that they accept a flight out of thailand within 3 months. I plan on using a fake ticket from something like bestonwardticket.com . So I plan on sending them both my 5month roundtrip flight, and also a flight out of thailand with a ticket from bestonwardticket. Would they approve my visa, or would they decline it seeing as my roundtrip is 5 months? If they would decline it, then what I'd plan on doing is showing up at the airport and getting a visa excemption, and show a ticket from bestonwardticket if asked for my onward travel.

3 minutes ago, elviajero said:

Yes.

 

To stay long term you need a long term visa or stay permit. That requires a Privilege Entry Visa from Thailand Elite or a Non-Immigrant Visa to visit family, retire, work, study etc. 

 

Staying long term using an Non-Imm ED visa is getting harder. Immigration are aware that people use this visa as a way to stay in the country and have been clamping down on this practice for years. It's a good option if you genuinely want to study and attend lessons, but expensive if you need to pay off schools/immigration to bypass the rules.

 

Otherwise there is no problem staying long term for people that can meet the requirements for long stay visas/stay permits.

So no issues staying long term if I am married and use multi entry non-o visa from savanhket?

1 hour ago, Isaanbiker said:

OP< if you're studying for a degree, you might be able to get a provisional teacher's license that's good for two year.

 

   Best option would be to get in touch with Khurusapha ( Teacher's Council of Thailand/.Bangkok) and send them an email what your chances are.

 

   If you're planning on teaching English, many schools and agencies hire people without degrees, change the title from teacher to "teacher's assistant" or similar and you bypass the TCT. 

 

 

I hear teaching without a degree is illegal, i'd rather just wait my year to finish uni, the pay is probably less in that case too i bet. What about non-o visas multi entry based on marriage, do you risk getting denied entry on border runs, like you say their is risk with tourist visas?

1 hour ago, elviajero said:

The embassy/consulate don’t care. They are only interested in selling you a visa. All they are interested in is that you provide the minimum requirements.

 

It won’t make any difference if you stay out 1 or 2 days between visa entries. It will be clear to the IO that you are a “visa runner” staying long term as a tourist. Whether or not they let you in depends on the individual IO on the day. Many people still get away with it that have been doing it months/years, while others get denied after a couple of entries.

 

As I said, your age will go against you. The longer you stay as a tourist the more suspicious that you are working illegally to fund your stay.

Right so tourist visas and visa exemptions are hard to stay in thailand long-term? Any other visas that are hard to stay in thailand long term on? O-visa based on marriage, B working visa, and ED visa, etc?

6 hours ago, NightSky said:

Buy a 5 year Elite Visa or consider marriage and then a marriage visa. Elite Visa would probably be much cheaper in the long run.

 

Thailand have raised the bar with regards to back to back tourist visas recently I wouldn't want to chance tourist visas for long stay,

the elite is overpriced, do you think i'd be safe border running 3 times without being denied entry? i have friends that live in thailand a long time on tourist visas. also, if you get denied entry somewhere, you can try a different border and be successful right?

48 minutes ago, elviajero said:

You don't need to supply a round-trip ticket. An onward flight to anywhere would be accepted. Anytime within 90 days should be accepted.

i'd prefer a 1-2 day round trip, just for the border run, as roundtrip tickets are cheaper and i only wanna go to vietnam for a border run. but i mean, it would look obvious that the onward ticket is solely for border running, im not sure if they care or not. i've never done a border run before but i know you go to the office and give them your passport, and you pick it up the next day, so if i did a roundtrip ticket, should i do a 2 day roundtrip, or would 1 day be enough to get my visa and make it to the airport ?

3 hours ago, randymarsh said:

You'll be fine.  Get a tourist visa before you go and then a flight out to Vietnam inside 60 days.  It's a throwaway.  Extend visa in thailand and book a flight you'll actually use to Vietnam more around 90 days.  Then get another tourist visa in Saigon - I've got a few visas there and it's easy and NO QUEUE EVER.  Stay in Vietnam though for minimum 2 weeks coz it's good.  So that will cover you for 200 days.  One more trip to Nam and back after that will be fine as well.

So you recommend I get a tourist visa in my own country before I come? This is what i did last time - but my flight information I gave them was a 90 day round trip bangkok back to US. If in my visa application at the DC embassy I give them 2 tickets for my flight information: 1 round trip to bangkok, and 1 ticket out of bangkok to Saigon, they'd approve my visa? Could my ticket to saigon be a roundtrip or you recommend I do a one way? And for the saigon ticket, could the ticket going to saigon be 90 days after I arrive in thailand, or would it have to be 60 days or less?

6 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

A return or onward ticket is not required for entry if you have a visa for entry.

 

They accepted a ticket within 3 months since you can get a total stay of 90 days by extending the 60 day entry for 30 days.

 

A return or onward ticket is seldom asked for unless they are looking for a reason to deny entry.

People have used tickets from sites such as that one for visa applications and boarding their flights to here.

I'm asking would the airline accept a 5 month return ticket, if I am going without a visa

2 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Immigration seldom asks to see a ticket out of the country within 30 days when entering visa exempt. It would more than likely be the airline that ask for one at check in. A one way low cost ticket to any nearby country would be accepted if asked.

The embassy would want to see a ticket out within 90 days. Again a one way ticket out of the country.would be accepted.

 

Traveling with a one way ticket would be accepted but getting the visa would require a ticket out of the country.

Not sure about the job situation here at this time.

 

 

Well would the airline accept a 5 month return ticket? If not, would the DC embassy accept a 5 month return ticket, and issue me a tourist visa? The DC embassy accepted my 3 month return ticket. How often is a return ticket asked for if you come on no visa? Also would a site like this work for the onward travel, https://bestonwardticket.com/

I'm about to leave thailand, never been here before, and im american. Came here on tourist visa plus extension, so 90 days, and my return ticket was 90 days. I want to come back next summer for 5 months, I'm thinking of coming on a visa exemption and extending that, and then doing a Laos border run and extending that for the 5 months. For onward travel, would immigration accept a 5 month return ticket or does it have to be within 60 days? If they don't accept a 5 month return ticket, would the DC embassy in USA give me a tourist visa when I show them my return ticket is 5 months, or would they decline my visa?

Another question I have is that I'm planning on working in bangkok when I graduate with my bachelors in a year. What would you do if you are coming here to work, as I would be buying a one way ticket to bangkok, and not a roundtrip. Also, with a BSBA, would I be able to work a non-teaching job, like jobs posted on craigslist bangkok, or would I have to be an english teacher?

40 minutes ago, madmen said:

Why?? Thailand wants cheap charlie farang out! 

What about your visa? 

 

i dont give a <deleted> about being a 'cheap charlie', im not a betabux. and i'd either do border runs, or get a job as im graduating in a year with a BSBA

I'm here in Thailand now and stay in airbnb but I'm about to go home to US. I'm looking to live here in the near future, and wondering what are the best apps/sites to find apartments/condo room? I want to live like a local that pays about 4-7k baht a month for rent