Hello to everyone, I want to ask if anyone had the same problem as me when entered to Thailand.
I’m an Italian guy, married to a Thai wife with children living in Thailand. I work in Italy for the summer and winter season, twice a year for a total of approximately 7 months.
When I don’t work I go to Thailand to stay with my family. Actually i don’t have residence in Italy.
Last week I flew from Venice to BKK airport with a Visa exempt ( same as many tourists, 60 days ) because my plan was to stay in Thailand for 70 days. I had troubles at immigration office.
The officer saw my passport and he asked why I still have an old TM6 paper ( March 2023 ). He started asking me some questions.
Where I live, to show him a ticket for go out Thailand before 60 days ( fortunately I had a booking with AirAsia for a onward ticket Krabi Kuala Lumpur ) and at the end of conversation told me that I made a lot of extension for every permit of stay in Thailand. I want to clarify that every extension was regular, never overstay and never had problems for 13 years.
He told me that I must ask a visa Non O for next time I come to Thailand or he wouldn’t let me come in.
I was shocked, these are my entries of the last 2 years ( the date when I got a new passport ).
04/2023: enter with visa exemption (out of Thailand after less of 1 month )
09/2023: I enter with visa non O visa 1 year. After 3 months I went to Laos for a border bounce and come back. Got other 90 days, at the end I applied for a 60 days extension at local immigration ( 05/2023 exit )
09/2024: enter to Thailand with visa exemption ( before the ends of 60 days made a 30 days extension at local immigration ) ( 12/2024 exit )
01/2025: enter to Thailand with visa exemption 60 days ( fly back to Italy in June 2025 )
In the last years I don’t want to ask for a Non O Visa because I have to stay in Thailand less of 90 days and I moved my residence from Italy to Thailand ( I sold my home in my country and I cannot be residence there ).
I want to ask to everyone if I try to ask a Non O Visa online when I work in Italy do you think it would be ok? ( even if my residence is in Thailand now )
I can proof that the hotel where I work give me the room for live ( it’s also write in the paper of salary ).
Does the new visa non O 90 days need financial requirements?
I would prefer to don’t go to ask a new Visa from Laos or Vietnam for avoid to loose time.
thank you so much for your help and sorry for wrote a very long paper.