Tourist visa limits

[wilson steer]

I am being bombarded with information or misinformation regarding travel visas for Thailand.

My concern is this; I am back in the U.K. for a few weeks and use the friendly people in Hull to get a tourist visa (quadruple) stamp good for eight months.

Will the fact that my passport is full of tourist visa stamps of(two months), extensions upto three months, various visa runs for 30 day stamps to Cambodia and Laos etc. etc. cause a problem when I re-enter Thailand in a few weeks time?

Will immigration look at my passport and work out that I live there about ten months a year and knock me back? What are the rules?

Will I be better getting a new passport? Can they match up my name and guess I'm hiding something? I am getting paranoid about all this.

Can anyone give me some answers please? Thanks, maybe I can get a good nights sleep........

[george]

Change passport. Get a multiple Non-Immigrant visa.

[Bob Chittie]

it sounds like many many consecutive tourist visas which clearly show you more or less live in thailand could start to be a problem for people. Although, no one has confirmed the rules with solid information yet.

I just don't understand how they can limit consecutive tourist visas and impose some kind of time span between your next visa without seriously hurting tourism.

[PK2]

Change passport. Get a multiple Non-Immigrant visa.

What if the original poster you are answering is under 50 years old, and un married to a Thai? Not everyone can get a non-imm visa can they?