I understand immigration can see all entries, exits, and extensions of stay including for the current and past passports you have.

 

What about the visa type or reason for travel? Do they also see that you came in with a tourism purpose, or a student or business visa etc?

Depends in the airport at the counter or at immigration office.

 

I believe airport arrival/departure counter information is limited, where as at immigration office they have full history

 

Before many people including myself believed if you change passport, then its ok, but as i learned less than a year ago, they had all my records for the past at least 5 years. may well be longer

Yes changing passports should not do much at all for immigration.

 

For embassies however, wipes the slate clean according to past threads on this topic (this has also been my experience)

57 minutes ago, Hal65 said:

What about the visa type or reason for travel? Do they also see that you came in with a tourism purpose, or a student or business visa etc?

Why is it important to you? Nobody works here as an IO to definitely answer your question.

I don't have a lot of entries and exits but if their computer sees too many of the same visa type it would obviously be bad.

 

My current passport is fresh so I'm only concerned about whether airport immigration sees visa history (land border immigration doesn't seem to, or maybe doesn't look into it much).

Edited August 30, 20196 yr by Hal65

If the IOs at the airport have information available to them, why do they spend so much time flicking through my passport looking at entry stamps?

 

11 minutes ago, mngmn said:

If the IOs at the airport have information available to them, why do they spend so much time flicking through my passport looking at entry stamps?

 

The IO at the counter don't have as much info as they have in the back office. Maybe they are also checking for fake stamp and stuff like that. 

6 minutes ago, Tayaout said:

The IO at the counter don't have as much info as they have in the back office. Maybe they are also checking for fake stamp and stuff like that. 

Computers are slow?pp in front of them.

Just make the trip Hal and let us know how it works out.

This is at least your 4th thread on essentially the same topic. You can keep asking questions and hope to get the answers you are looking for but ultimately, no matter what people say on this forum, it is up to the immigration officer you stand in front of.

It's obvious you think you are skating on thin ice with regard to living long term in Thailand on various visas, 5 years on ED visas I think you said in a previous thread.

Sooner or later immigration (very soon I expect) will be asking you how you fund your stay in Thailand and that will be the end of your Thai adventure as they will think, with good reason, that you are working here illegally.

Of course if you are a self made, or even by inheritance, wealthy person the Thai Elite scheme is the way to go. From what you have been posting it's clear you are not.

 

Good luck and keep us all updated as to what happens.

10 hours ago, BestB said:

I believe airport arrival/departure counter information is limited, where as at immigration office they have full history

Why at the time of doing your extension it is required to provide photocopies of your past extensions!

 

Maybe they just keep basic information such as that stamped into the front of a new passport i.e. when you first came to Thailand, visa type etc

17 minutes ago, Kron said:

Why at the time of doing your extension it is required to provide photocopies of your past extensions!

 

Maybe they just keep basic information such as that stamped into the front of a new passport i.e. when you first came to Thailand, visa type etc

For the same reasons you need to provide your address on 3+ different forms multiple times every couple months! 

1 hour ago, mngmn said:

If the IOs at the airport have information available to them, why do they spend so much time flicking through my passport looking at entry stamps?

 

In the words of W.C.Fields. (When his wife saw him reading the bible).

Just lookin' for loopholes honey, Lookin' for loopholes.

3 hours ago, mngmn said:

If the IOs at the airport have information available to them, why do they spend so much time flicking through my passport looking at entry stamps?

I believe the officials are looking for discrepancies between what is in their system and what is indicated in the passport. This can occur because of system or human errors, as well as falsification.

13 minutes ago, BritTim said:

I believe the officials are looking for discrepancies between what is in their system and what is indicated in the passport. This can occur because of system or human errors, as well as falsification.

With the number of in/out stamps in the 30 pages of stamps from countries around the world in my pp and some in/outs 4 or 5 pages apart it takes me up to 20 minutes to match them all up. ????

The biggest annoyance is the single in stamp right in the middle of a new page when the last out stamp has plenty of space to get them together.

If you go to Yangon and get the visa, then fly to Tachileik like you mentioned, you’re absolutely going to get in. Don’t worry man. I had tons of entries on exempt and tourist visa and the IO was very nice and smiling yesterday. Luckily this is my last visa before I move though.

16 hours ago, Hal65 said:

For embassies however, wipes the slate clean according to past threads on this topic (this has also been my experience)

According to one report, that's changing. Some embassies/consulates are able to access at least some of your history.

6 hours ago, Tayaout said:

For the same reasons you need to provide your address on 3+ different forms multiple times every couple months! 

Assuming you're referring to 90 day reports, that too depends on computer system available at your immigration office ... and I'm not sure why it would happen every couple of months since it's done every 90 days.

 

At Jomtien and other offices, for the 90 day report you just hand over your passport with the previous report stapled in it. No photocopies or application forms needed.