andrew12345

How close to the end of the 30 day visa-exempt period should one be before one applies for the 30-day extension of visa-exempt travel? Thanks!

Thanks. Which is more of a sure thing: the 30 day extension of visa exempt entry, or a new 30 day visa exempt period?

We (30-something husband and wife, two small children: all American) have a 90 day trip all booked to Thailand, arriving September 6. We made the mistake of thinking the E-Visa site would list all the requirements for the visa. But the site fails to distinguish between different visa types, and nearly two weeks after our seemingly complete submissions, we got letters asking for FBI background checks, landlord tax IDs, etc. But we had booked with AirBnB! Today I find buried in the Washington DC Thai Embassy site that for a 90-day special tourist visa, AirBnB is not allowed! An option is to try to get a 60 day visa and then hope to extend. But we don't have the 15 days we'd have to allow for processing. And we'd have to buy plane tickets out of Thailand on the 60th day which we may not be able to refund. I also sent one of the documents the embassy website says is required off to another government agency for another purpose and can't get another copy in the next couple days. The E-Visa submission instructions did not mention it. I may be able to get it in a week though. So I'm considering two options: 1. A. Enter Thailand on September 6 with 30 day visa exemptions 1. B. Leave Thailand altogether after 30 days. eating half of the lodging cost for the middle part of the trip (fortunately the cheapest part of the trip), which cannot be refunded 1. C. Go somewhere else in Asia, probably Indonesia, until day 60 of the trip 1. D. Return to Thailand for the last 30 days on another visa exemption 2. A. Enter Thailand on September 6 with 30 day visa exemptions 2. B. Cross a border by plane after 30 days one way or another (days 29-61 of the trip are scheduled for Chiang Mai). Re-enter the same day with another visa exemption 2. C Again cross a border by plane on the 60th day, reentering the same day, for a third consecutive visa-exempt stay How likely is option 2 to work? Can two consecutive visa-exempt stays be granted like that? I see that I am allowed 2 entries via land/sea crossings per calendar year but that such entry only allows 15 day stays, so it would have to be by plane. Where should we fly to from Chiang Mai for same-day return? Thanks!