I just crossed over today from VTE into Nong Khai at the Friendship bridge. An event I do monthly to keep the Lao visa current.

Very odd being this time the Thai immigration didn't pore over each and every entry in my passport to Thailand but instead looked for the page with the Lao exit stamp and stamped me in for another 30 days.

In the past they counted the days but today it apeared no one cared how long I have been in Thailand.

I just crossed over today from VTE into Nong Khai at the Friendship bridge. An event I do monthly to keep the Lao visa current.

Very odd being this time the Thai immigration didn't pore over each and every entry in my passport to Thailand but instead looked for the page with the Lao exit stamp and stamped me in for another 30 days.

In the past they counted the days but today it apeared no one cared how long I have been in Thailand.

I went there in January last year. they didnt have that computerized system at the Nongkhai boarder. just the old fashioned way: have a look at the passport manually and then STAMP.... is it still like that ?

Before they always went through my passport page by page. This time Thai immigration didn't seem to be interested in anything but giving me a 30 day stamp.

Maybe some of his family are working for (T)iTV.