bamboozled

Thank you Doctor!

I'm uninformed on TM8. Is that the re-entry permit? I'll do some sleuthing on the gov. website. I'm sorry to bog you down with endless questions. I will probably go to Immi here in Chiang Mai to get the re-entry permit before leaving as it worries me last minute at the airport. Hopefully, the missing 90 report doesn't come into play. Thank you.

You know, I DID forget, so thank you for the reminder! Let's hope I remember when it comes time to leave. I think I can also get it directly at the airport before crossing "to the other side", yes? In the past, I've always had the multi-entry and it was never an issue. Not my normal MO. After more than 20 years here, the 90 day report is also pretty new to me and partly why I screwed it up. Not part of my normal MO.

Good call! Thanks so much. Hmm, just doing the extension doesn't automatically reset the 90 day report? Am I understanding that correctly? (I didn't get any Asean notifications in my email so forgot to check back!)

Thank you, Dr. Jack. You've been many times helpful to me. Much appreciation for that. My first 90 day report upon return will be 90 days after my entry stamp, correct? Well, come to think of it, my retirement visa will need to be renewed before that time so moot point. Cheers!

Shoot...could have sworn I put it in my computer calendar to remind me but nothing doing. It was due beginning of June and now here we are July 9th and Immi is closed for 2 days for Buddha holiday. I assume they have my last report in the computer, yes? I'm also thinking I should go to Immi drive through first chance possible and face the music (2000 baht fine and stern look?) but I'm also due to leave the country for a spell beginning of August. What are the chances nothing happens if I wait and just go through Immi at the airport when leaving the country? I've read some posts on here intimating that as a possiblity. Would that wipe things clean or could it be that when I try to re-enter in September I could be in for some trouble? I'm in Chiang Mai. Apologies for the boring, too oft repeated topic. Thank you kindly and I wish all a grand evening. And let me remind myself: I'm grateful to be living in Thailand and enjoying its wonders. (A friend and I are exchanging emails everyday for a month where we list 3 things for which we are grateful. It can be whatever, from profound to petty. Thus, my comment about being grateful to be living in Thailand. Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that it's pretty good here and we're lucky and it's def not a ditch in Ukraine underneath a sky full of drones and bombs)

Chiang Mai. It didn't count for me. Hmm, I might have dug my own grave, as it were. I put my date of entry as August (the true date of entry) and not the date I got the visa extension. The officer told me the extension doesn't count but perhaps it wouldn't have been an issue if I had put the extension date. But that would not have been a truthful answer to when I entered Thailand. I'm 2000 baht lighter now. That much I know.

This is surely all over the forum but I missed this info somehow. So I'm repeating it here in case it benefits somebody. I got a visa extension about 3 months ago and thought that would count as a 90 day report. When I went to do my 90 day report recently, surprise to me, I had to pay 2000 baht for overstay. My last entry into Thailand was in August and that's when the 90 days started. My visa extension in September had no bearing on it. It doesn't really make sense to me as the visa extension goes a lot further in proving where you are and what you are doing. But alas, it seems the two systems operate independently. Take heed.

Hello friends, Is this border crossing currently open for an exit Thailand/Re-enter Thailand with new stamp scenario? This would be two Yanks. One with retirement visa the other has some kind of a tourist entry. This would be toward the latter part of next month, December. Info online was, per usual, extremely scattered/old/impossible to interpret. Many thank! Bamboozled.

18,000 baht.

Hi Sheryl, I have and blood was fine but that was 8 months ago now. I'm primed to do another overall checkup but wanted to talk to a doctor first to see if there were any tests I should add. A thyroid test 2 weeks ago showed 0.82 free T4 with the minimum being 0.78. That's the lowest it's been. I have been taking Levothyroxine for 2 weeks and waiting to feel the effect. The doctor didn't think I needed it but I "convinced" her that it was worth trying the meds to see if it helped. My sister has Hashimoto's. I very often get swollen lymph nodes in my neck and a slight sore throat in the afternoon. Along with the fatigue. It's almost like clockwork. Feels like I am getting the flu. But I've learned to ignore it and carry on the best I can and by later in the evening the glands seem to get better. Reading about ME/CFS, they talk about such a thing. I also had dengue 15 years ago which perhaps could have been the trigger. I have always maintained I never felt quite the same after it. I will let you know if I find some info in CM. Thank you.

I might try my luck here in CM and if no results/answers then to Bkk might be the plan.

I understand. Thanks. I don't understand it either.

Sounds like you're good to go. I don't think they want downloaded from internet as it doesn't have the official bank stamp. ...I would guess.

Thank you, all. I will def get a re-entry permit then, just to bat my eyelashes at as I dream where I might go. Nice to have that to cover any mistakes or spur of the moment cross-border love affairs.