I have just came across the The Thailand Longstay Company site, which states it was established in 2001 with the endorsement of the Thai Royal Government to support long stay tourism. 

 

I have been coming to LOS 4 times a year since 2010 (twice a year before that since 2007), was married and have Thai children, but this is the first time I've seen this site, the service isn't free of course.

 

Has anyone has any experience in using this service? surprised I've not seen it mentioned anywhere?

 

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The year of the site doesn't say anything. You can buy an old domain and change the domain name. 

It is possible that this site has direct connection with immigration officer. And ofcourse no one will ever know who. Otherwise you will never able to offer any service like that. 

Edited October 3, 20205 yr by alianware

I believe the longstay company started with the introduction of the O/A visa or the O/X visa, whichever came first. That takes care of two letters of the alphabet; 23 more left for additional special visas in the non-immigrant O category for future use.

 

Now, they got the Special Tourist Visa (STV) and time will tell what will next be added to the alphabet soup.

Their website states as ‘sponsors and partners’ the Tourist Police, Immigration and the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). TAT is als9 presented as ‘a major shareholder’. 

Edited October 3, 20205 yr by damascase

5 hours ago, alianware said:

The year of the site doesn't say anything. You can buy an old domain and change the domain name. 

 

You cannot change a domain name. The only thing you can do is cancel the old name and register a new one.

 

 

7 hours ago, spoon1967 said:

The Thailand Longstay Company site, which states it was established in 2001

 

Although you can write any date on the website.

 

But when looking at the whois of the website it will show the date the domain name was registered. It was in 2002.

 

root@vps2:~# whois thailongstay.co.th

Whois Server Version 2.1.5

Domain Name:                THAILONGSTAY.CO.TH
Registrar:                  T.H.NIC Co., Ltd.
Name Server:                NS5.9CLOUDHOST.COM
Name Server:                NS6.9CLOUDHOST.COM
DNSSEC:                     unsigned
Status:                     ACTIVE
Updated date:               25 Feb 2020
Created date:               11 Mar 2002
Exp date:                   10 Mar 2021
Domain Holder Organization: Thai Longstay Management Co., Ltd. (บริษัท ไทยจัดการลองสเตย์ จำกัด)
Domain Holder Street:       Personal Information*
Domain Holder Country:      TH

Tech Contact:               Personal Information*
Tech Organization:          Personal Information*
Tech Street:                Personal Information*
Tech Country:               TH

>>> Last updated on Sun, 04 Oct 2020 05:06:54 UTC+7 <<<

 

 

12 hours ago, spoon1967 said:

Has anyone has any experience in using this service?

I've used them for fast-track service at Suvarnabhumi a few years ago, although I note (from the website) that they no longer appear to provide such a service at present.

Here is the Thailand Long Stay internet history......

 

http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.thailongstay.co.th/contact.html

13 hours ago, spoon1967 said:

Has anyone has any experience in using this service? surprised I've not seen it mentioned anywhere?

 

On a earlier version of the immigration website they had a button on the main page that went to their website .

On 10/3/2020 at 7:20 PM, damascase said:

Their website states as ‘sponsors and partners’ the Tourist Police, Immigration and the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). TAT is als9 presented as ‘a major shareholder’. 

I know...it's got me confused, never heard of them.