my 80 year old mother came here half september
she got 30 days on arrival
we went a few days before expire date to local immigration for a 30 day extension
I prepared a TM30 and everything
got blasted there the 1st time.... The Tm30 I did as house master of the place I rent, online, never a problem for my own tm30
I registered using the blue book copy, but my passport
NOPE... they wanted the owner copy of id card or no extension...
Gladly the owner lines me the copy... just forwarding or mailing to an immigration email address was not possible, had to go find a shop to print it out...
You know, being in the stone age and everything...
So that was stressful enough...
We did change return ticket after 'successful' extention...
Did not see my mom for 3 years due to covid ...
So I thought, ok... let's do a border run to Kuala Lumpur... cheapest, no stuff like buying visa as in Cambodia..
She did it alone...as... I am not vaxxed... trip went fine to KL...
On the way back, same day, 10 PM, long day for her, THAI IMMIGRATION at the airport...
They brought her to some other lane for old people, or is it the SCAM LINE ?
They Tell her.... trip to KL was not needed, YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY...
and you can come back, THE NEXT DAY (to/from Europe... 11 hours flight, 2.000 euros or more...)
She has a flight out next week... but we planned to change that after a successful border run, not before...
So they roasted her why she was here, where she stayed
PS: my mom comes from a non-ENGLISH speaking country... this is her 3rd language same as me
Apparently, the 70+ year old man before her, and some other people also did the same RUN in the morning, same flight out and in...
She saw the man before her plead to immigration and hand over cash money hush hush and then he was soooooo thankful to those nice people at immigration...
I was waiting at the airport, phone was on... none tried to call me...
Well my mom does not have a Thai sim card, she uses WIFI at my place... and free wifi from airport simple does not work...
Immigration pretended to call me on their phone, nobody at all called.
My mom pleaded if they could get me to come explain the situation, but that was not allowed...
After 20 minutes of checking this and that, supervisor, she surprisingly got the needed stamp...
She was surprised to get it and why all this <deleted> ?
Does Thailand not need or want tourists to spend money to make it almost impossible give a stamp after leaving the country and entering legally ?
My mom did not give money or was not asked money... maybe she did not know how THAILAND works... that you need to grease the wheels for getting a 45 day stamp what she deserves, no ?
This was again a very bad experience with those nice Thai people with a bit of power...
Or am I wrong ?
Does leaving the country, just for the stamp out and later the stamp in, first border run in her life, by air, to be able to spend a bit more time with the family a bad thing ?