Stopped On Re-entry For Too Many Tourist Visas

[sanemax]

6 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

I think the allowed is 180 days as I recall per year

I am sure someone much more knowledgably will give the number  

However you have staed you are not a tourist but a resident >>

No, the maximum  allowed stay is 365 days per year . 

[sanemax]

40 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

Be grateful you have scammed the visa system for so long and not getting caught before. 

Could you do the same thing in the UK????

 

 

He has a problem and asking for advice .

This thread  could do without the constant posts from retirees on retirement visas who begrudge others staying long term in Thailand on tourist visas .

(And we dont really need yet another debate on what is a tourist and what isnt)  

[sanemax]

2 hours ago, Khun Ed said:

Does the I.O have the legal right to write that in your passport?

Make a compliant to the British Embassy that he defaced your passport 

[sanemax]

I had something similar written on my arrival card in both Thai and English .

"Only allowed to stay for 14 days" it had written on the arrival card .

I stayed for 30 days and extended my visa and stayed for another 30 days 

[tabarin]

As far I know they tend to scribble this in people their passport in case they attempt to return without any visa at all.
So with other words; you should be fine when returning with a visa, still I would avoid airports.

I been quite notorious with my visa's and overstays in the past and they scribbled all kind of things, no issue.
I always stick to the rule of the thumb with 2 tourist visa's, 2 border runs per year though, certainly when from near by countries.

[Khun Ed]

That's interesting. The rules are cloudy to say the least. I am not sure whether defacing my pport with that is legal! I will try a few lawyers for advice

[tabarin]

2 minutes ago, Khun Ed said:

That's interesting. The rules are cloudy to say the least. I am not sure whether defacing my pport with that is legal! I will try a few lawyers for advice

That sounds rather stupid and arrogant, you would only end with more problems and less money.

[sanemax]

Has anyone ever got or heard about anyone getting a 24 hour visa ?

[ThomasThBKK]

2 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Has anyone ever got or heard about anyone getting a 24 hour visa ?

 

Don't think thats a thing by law nor that they have the authority to come up with this non sense at all.

[Hoppyone]

2 hours ago, steven100 said:

apply for the correct visa and you'll be fine.

You cannot travel in and out of Thailand continuously on Tourist visas.

Correct you are classified in the eyes of the authorities  as not an genuine tourist by continually coming into Thailand on Tourist visas whether they are back to back or not

[Khun Ed]

The big issue for me was am I on some kind of black list? What are my options. Can I apply for a tourist visa in the UK so I can come back in a few month to get an ed visa or a marriage cert?

[tabarin]

3 minutes ago, Khun Ed said:

The big issue for me was am I on some kind of black list? What are my options. Can I apply for a tourist visa in the UK so I can come back in a few month to get an ed visa or a marriage cert?

Grow some balls and just come back with a visa, you will most likely be fine. Certainly if not via airport.

[jacko45k]

23 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Does the I.O have the legal right to write that in your passport?

Make a compliant to the British Embassy that he defaced your passport 

Are you serious? 

[ThomasThBKK]

4 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Are you serious? 

i guess he is, there's no law giving them any authority here to cut down visa times.

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, ThomasThBKK said:

i guess he is, there's no law giving them any authority here to cut down visa times.

Well it was more about defacement wrt writing in there. I doubt that is a problem to get the Ambassador involved in!

[Yinn]

ผ่อนผันอยู่เกิน ไม่เกิน 24 ชั่วโมง

TM?

 

=let you in not more than 24 hours.

 

maybe just get the new passport. Because you lose it.

 

 

[DrJack54]

23 minutes ago, Khun Ed said:

The big issue for me was am I on some kind of black list? What are my options. Can I apply for a tourist visa in the UK so I can come back in a few month to get an ed visa or a marriage cert?

You won't be going on any blacklist. Also understand that the embassy in UK are not thai immigration. Meaning just because you obtain visa does not guarantee you will be admitted into Thailand. The longer in UK the better. 

With regards the marriage route. After marriage you will obtain a non o based on marriage to Thai. 

[DrJack54]

OP there is current thread in this forum outlining steps for obtain non o (marriage) then before 90 day expiry of visa applying for 12 month extension. Ubon and others have given step by step guide. Even the forms required. 

[lovesthespicy]

Were you flying out of a airport or a landborder? If airport which one?

 

 

[dcnx]

2 hours ago, mfd101 said:

I wonder how many countries in the world one can live in for year after year on a tourist visa. Um, ...

Quite a few.

[Khun Ed]

38 minutes ago, tabarin said:

Grow some balls and just come back with a visa, you will most likely be fine. Certainly if not via airport.

Oh yeah! spend a fortune on flights just to be turned awaya again!!!!!!!

If you mean just from Malaysia. The last visa trip I did i went through DM and the officer almost had a heart attack and said 'no more visa trips'

[Khun Ed]

7 minutes ago, lovesthespicy said:

Were you flying out of a airport or a landborder? If airport which one?

 

 

Hua Hin.

[lovesthespicy]

40 minutes ago, Khun Ed said:

Hua Hin.

Interesting i wonder if this is just a Hua Hin thing. If it was happening often we would be hearing about with all the traffic that comes through DM and Suv. 

[lamyai3]

2 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

2 hours ago, Khun Ed said:

Hardly a scam myuppet, when there are no official number of times you can go in and out.

I think the allowed is 180 days as I recall per year

This 90 days in 180 rule was rescinded years ago. 

 

The OP wasn't scamming anyone - he was using methods of staying here which until fairly recently were acceptable to immigration. Given that many people don't read forums like this unless the need arises, it's likely that they wouldn't even be aware of these changes in policy until they suddenly get a problem. 

 

To the OP, I think the 24 hour comment in the passport isn't so much an issue as the effect of the accumulated visas. Regarding the short term future though, I agree with BritTim's comments above in post #16. 

[observer90210]

A country will soon be doomed if laws are invented applied plainly on the moods and thoughts of one sole individual and not with consistency, by the book and by all.

[tfc]

In regards to comparisons between staying in Thailand on tourist visas and whether the same could be done in my own country Australia I can only offer anecdotal examples of friends that essentially live here simply because they have the ample amounts of either investments and/or external sources of income to do so.  It may not be the "official" thing to do from certain legal perspectives in Australia however the financial perspective wins here, as can be observed from properties, once upon a time public sector companies and at times freeways being bought by overseas investors.  This is just my observation of the landscape and I'm attempting to keep it objective without putting in my own opinion either way as to whether the aforementioned specifics are good, bad, right or wrong. 

 

At a smaller more individual level, if people are bringing money from outside of Australia and not working here (ie. in the context of the definition of work being that their income is coming from Australian people and/or companies as opposed to managing businesses outside Australia that are bringing money here.  I have not known anyone to have any issues at all and on the contrary are, perhaps "informally," quite welcome here and encounter little to no hassle.  In my experience its always been the latter but there are probably exceptions. 

 

Permanent residency and citizenship, though Australia has strict criteria, is also possible at a far higher percentage of success if those criteria are met.  Once again anecdotal but the people I know who are able to show that they either have a sufficiently large flow of external income that does not look as if it will cease until death from what I have seen do not experience the strictness that those that cannot do.  The "welcome" may not be on the level of a salesman with their foot in your door but in the "jumping through the hoops" of criteria there has always been an eager helping hand to boost them through the hoop.

 

 

 

 

[Yeahbutwhytho]

So you had a tourist visa, correct? Then what did he stamp for your 'max 24 hours in the country' - did it have a 30 day 'in' stamp 

A scribble on your passport is not an entry pass? This story makes no sense 

[kkerry]

8 minutes ago, FredGallaher said:

I'm not aware that Hua Hin has international flights. Khun Ed said it was Hua Hin?

Air Asia to KL.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airports/hhq

[Khun Ed]

43 minutes ago, Yeahbutwhytho said:

So you had a tourist visa, correct? Then what did he stamp for your 'max 24 hours in the country' - did it have a 30 day 'in' stamp 

A scribble on your passport is not an entry pass? This story makes no sense 

Follow the story from page 1. I was on my way to Kl to get a tourist visa. I did not have an overstay. She wrote that on my way out. See image. The officer was not friendly before he saw my pp

[sanemax]

3 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Are you serious? 

Yes, the passport is British  Government property , does a Thai I.O have the authority to write whatever he wants in a persons passport ?