BrandonJT

An education extension can ONLY be cancelled at the immigration office that issued it. Many reports that Chiang Mai is no longer an easy airport to enter.

You're not dealing with immigration. The bank letter is an immigration requirement. You just need the bank statement from any bank, Thai or not, to apply for a visa from a Thai embassy.

Save the money you would have spent on a tourist visa and either use it on a land border bounce agency if you are currently in Thailand, or a safe entry airport agent if you're not currently in Thailand.

Why would your school know if you can get a tourist visa? That's between you and the embassy you decide to apply at. But a tourist visa isn't going to help you with a history like that.

You can only use 65,000 baht transfer per month if it's an international transfer directly into your Thai bank account. Going to the ATM and then depositing the money is not going to cut it. Immigration has no way to see that the money came from overseas, which is a hard requirement.

That's the immigration rule.

You have 7 days to get proof of a submitted TM30. Once filed, you go back into the TM30 system and search for the submission you just made. It can only be found for 7 days. Once you find it, hit the "generate pdf" button and you'll get proof. After 7 days you can no longer get proof. If you want a new proof, you submit a new TM30 and then search for it.

Multiple reports of people getting hassled at on their 2nd entry with METV if they did the 60+30 and left and returned. A tourist is a tourist, whether you are visa exempt or tourist visa, and immigration does not like serial tourist entries.

The agents will just continue to use their existing bank contacts or find new ones, and pay for the paperwork needed. It won't change anything.

As usual, these policies are only going to make life difficult for the people doing it correctly. I doubt agents will have any issues since they are greasing the right palms and it will be business as usual.

No longer an option as of the end of last year.

Your entitlement is showing.

I've had my LTR for almost 2 years now and still have issues sometimes with very long wait times while the officers process it. With the amount of flip-flopping and changes the government pushes on the immigration officers, I pity them. Not only do they have to navigate constantly changing and sometimes archaic rules and laws, they also have to deal with entitled people that think they shouldn't have to show certain requirements or even their visa in order to enter.

Certainly not a risk I'd be willing to take right now given how many people are being pulled up at the airports and how many are being denied entry for not having a long-term visa.

Siam Legal is widely known to have long outdated information posted. They also own the incredibly misleading "Thaiembassy" website that's always rife with incorrect and outdated information. Siam Legal does not offer bank account opening services unless you are purchasing other services from them that requires a bank account, same as many other large agents in Bangkok.

You have to search for the entry you made within 7 days of making it. When you find it, there is a button to generate a pdf. After 7 days you can no longer find it through the search function, and would have to submit a new TM30.

No reports of this being needed yet. It will likely be required in the future, at least your TDAC number, but as of now it's not required.

Sounds about right. I went in (to the Central mall office) and submitted all my documents and they gave me a sticky note with a date to return. I can't remember if it was 7 days but it wasn't long. When I came back I handed them the sticky note and they gave me the certificate. Both times was very quick, and I never even went to one of the counters. It was all done at the desk at the entrance door.

There is no approval for TM30. It's a database that you make entries into which are immediately recorded.

That rule changed in Bangkok last year. No requirement to complete a 90-day report first.

Although it varies from province to province, medical extensions are generally very difficult to obtain. It's not that you don't want to fly, or feel you can't fly, it's that you must be physically unable to fly. If you can go to immigration to apply for an extension, you are well enough to be wheeled to your plane and fly out. Basically you have to be admitted into the hospital unable to leave your bed if you want a medical extension.

I haven't had much luck doing that. Agoda is often cheaper than the hotel website (if they have one) and when I've contacted the hotel about booking directly for a price lower than Agoda, they said to just use Agoda if it's cheaper, as the price is the price.

Either use a border bounce agency from Bangkok, or fly from Bangkok and return with a safe entry agency. Tod posted details of runs from Bangkok recently.

They just don't want to do it for you. If you get the yellow book, there will magically be a new requirement they forgot to tell you about last time you went in. On and on until you give up.

I think it's only a matter of time. The BOI said you need the TDAC number for future dealings with them.