Unbelievable! (Well, not really... thiis is Thailand). I went to extend my 60-day visa-on-arrival by 30 days, whilst waiting for the paperwork from my school to start an advanced Thai course on an ED visa. The IO studied my passport stamps and asked why I entered Thailand so many times in the past year. "Because I have to enter Thailand to travel from Don Muang airport to Suwanabhumi Airport" was my reply, "travelling from Yangon to Siem Reap and therefore have to transit Bangkok airports". "You enter Thailand too many times" was her reply. Quite how one is meant to travel from Yangon to Siem Reap (no direct flights) without entering Thailand is beyond me :) Anyway, after discussions of 1 hour in Thai about why I don't have a long-term visa (divorced, so no marriage visa, Thai son 21 years old, so no family visa, etc)., they agreed to extend my visa by 30 days, to enable me to receive my ED visa documents from the school in a couple of weeks from now. Could I get a retirement visa? Not yet, I spent my spare money on my charity work in Myanmar, so now living outside Myanmar I need to save up some baht :) At least I can always fall back to my simple plan B in case or problems (I have an annual ER retirement visa from Cambodia, issued without any questions or documents required, apart from my passport and $300). I don't think Thailand is doing itself any favours by using 'stupid' reasons (you transit airport too many times) to deny visas/extensions.... :)