Current status of Ranong-Kawtaung-Ranong trip (not a visa run)

[simon43]

I have an O visa in Thailand, extended for retirement. I maintain this visa, although I make regular trips by air from Bangkok to/from Burma (Yangon, Mandalay etc), obtaining a re-entry permit when leaving Bangkok Airport.

 

Years ago, I would visit Kawtaung and stay a few days to help at the orphanage.  I would stamp out at Ranong Fish Bridge immigration, take a small boat across the river, leave my passport at Kawtaung immigration (as required), be issued with a short-stay permit paper, and stay at a hotel on the hill that had a licence to accommodate foreigners.  This all worked fine.

 

Now that I will start to receive my UK state pension, I will have enough income not to require an employment teaching income (I have an online income).  Therefore, I have plans to return to Burma to teach as a volunteer.

 

Obviously, the requirements/paperwork in Burma to do this legally is my responsibility 🙂  I can't return to Mandalay/Yangon because the polluted air is not good for my lungs, and teaching again in those cities would be a liability/risk.  I need clean, sea air, exactly what I have now at my rented home in south Thailand.

 

So it occurred to me that I could teach as a volunteer in Kawtaung, returning back to Thailand every few weeks.

 

So... my question is:  Does anyone know if Ranong immigration will allow me to stamp out (with a re-entry permit), and then return perhaps 1 week later?