BrandonJT

Each visa is 50,000 baht.

With an METV you should be able to get about 9 months in Thailand if you maximize the use of it. In today's environment, you are unlikely to get 9 months in Thailand using visa exempt entries on your own without encountering issues or using workarounds. Did you not look at your embassy's website before you started applying for the visa? It has all of the fees and requirements for the various visas and should be the first place to consult before anything else.

Don't think it has anything to do with this. There are just some amphur that make it impossible for any foreigners to get a yellow book and pink ID card. It doesn't matter the reason they want it, they just don't do it at all. While other offices are happy to do it with minimal paperwork. TiT where each office of anything is its own kingdom and can make its own rules.

There is no automated machine for entering the country. Not likely to happen for a long time, and the first people it will be for will be visa exempt with an ETA. I doubt those with actual visas will have any opportunity to use automated gates for years to come.

Initiative is frowned upon for Thais. It can and will get you demoted or fired from your job, just for questioning the rules or your superiors. You do what you are told, you check all the boxes on the list, and you don't ask questions. That is how you keep your job and keep your bosses happy. They learn from this very young starting in school and it continues through their entire life.

The 1 million in assets and the 500k investment in Thailand remain as requirements while the yearly income requirement is gone.

Pretend you submitted your application in person, because that's how the embassy sees it. You have to wait until your visa is issued before you can leave. Same as before, just a different way of applying. They're not forcing you to stay. They don't hold your passport. But if you leave they can cancel your application without refund. Multiple reports of people being asked for a follow-up proof of location like a letter from hotel manager stating you are still staying in the country, and even saw a report of someone being called into the embassy for an interview after 10 days.

Why are you even maintaining insurance that you only got for the LTR? You should have health insurance yes, but the type of your choosing. There is no followup about this at all. You don't need to have health insurance for the LTR for years 2-5. You just need to make sure you buy another year of qualified insurance before you apply for years 6-10 and then let it lapse and use whatever insurance you choose.

Looks like Myanmar is going to be using the same policy as Laos. Evisa must be paid at the embassy.

It's not just possible, many immigration offices will actually require you to take the 30 day extension first before they will even entertain a request for the 60 day extension. Not sure why that is.

You can only get dependent visas based on a work visa if your employer supports it. They will have to provide paperwork to you that allows you to get these.

It's not a fake ticket. The company you buy the ticket from is the one that does the purchase and refund. Paying for the convenience of not having to tie up your own money and do it yourself.

The fact that some airlines check and some don't makes it seem like they have their own rules.

This seems like a completely useless handout to the rich. I can agree that the income limit should be raised, as 100,000 baht per year household income is just 8,300 baht per month which is ludicrously low. But well-off Thais have no need for an extra 600 baht per month and it certainly won't encourage them to have additional children. This government seems hell-bent on handouts to the rich, first with saying they want to decrease income taxes but increase VAT, which means a tax increase on the poor who don't pay income taxes but certainly pay VAT, and now this handout to anyone with a child rather than either increasing the subsidy to the poor, raising the income ceiling, or both, making better use within the same budget.

I'd wager the odds of convincing a low-level ticketing agent to go against company policy based on this would be quite low. If the airline policy says within the amount of days on arrival or says 60 days, then that's what they'll be looking for to check the box on their list.

It's not the rule only for non immigration visas/extensions. It's the rule for all extensions in Bangkok. Both at Chaeng Watthana and Laksi. Tourism extension is no exception. Both tourist visa and visa exempt can be extended when you have 45 days or less left.

Not sure why you are calling it a passport service. It's for "VIP" entry, basically guaranteeing you are allowed into Thailand without the normal scrutiny at the entry counter.

In Bangkok you can apply for an extension when you have 45 days or less left on your current stamp.

You would have to leave Thailand and return before the visa expires in order to activate it. You can't activate a visa from an embassy while inside of Thailand already.

Normally, no. They want to see onward travel within the number of days you'll receive upon arrival. Yes, they know you can get an extension. No, they don't usually care. You can try to plead your case, but that's no guarantee. The official policy is that the onward travel is within the number of days you receive on arrival.

Normally, no. They generally want to see onward travel that shows you are leaving within the number of days you will receive upon arrival. But each airline may interpret the rules differently.

Name one country that requires payment in baht. I don't know how they can have such a requirement to pay in person, but it's quite clear that's the intention since the entire document is very clearly about e-visa. It doesn't make any sense at all, and completely defeats the purpose of e-visa. But Thailand is good at defeating the purpose of well-intentioned systems.

Just so people fully understand: Yes, both Vientiene and Savannakhet will be switching to e-visa, but it will not be exactly the same as everywhere else with e-visa. Payment must be made in-person, in cash only, as part of your e-visa application. The instructions posted by both the embassy and consulate make that very clear. I'm not sure how they're allowed to change the process like that compared to every other e-visa embassy/consulate, but that's what they have posted.

Don't most people pay for their hotel stays? Doesn't seem like news.

So an increase in taxes on the poor and a reduction in taxes on the rich and businesses. I'm sure that will increase the money flowing through the economy, as it has in everywhere that has tried trickle down economics 🙄