Suvarnabhumi Exempt Entry Data Point - Eighth Entry in a Year

[moto77]

FYI: I have seven 30 day exempt entries in my passport in the last year:

 

27JUL13 - 25AUG13 

30SEP13 - 15OCT13 

06DEC13 - 20DEC13 

26DEC13 - 28DEC13 

31DEC13 - 13JAN14 

25FEB14 -17MAR14

01JUL14 - 30JUL14

 

I arrived at Suvarnabhumi August 8. The agent flipped through my passport, came to the first blank page and stamped me in for 30 days without issue.

 

I think the obvious conclusion here is that they are only targeting back to back visa runners, not those of us that just happen to travel a lot. 

Edited August 10, 2014 by moto77

[mramazing]

Do they really look at previous stamps to see your immigration history? I thought they registered your national ID in their systems. What is it they are typing if not that?

 

Anyway, glad to hear.

[Crossy]

A post quoting hearsay and rumour has been removed, if you have (preferably official) links confirming this information please feel free to repost.

[Tomtomtom69]

OP good report. Your history is nothing - I have over the years spent far more time than you on visa exempt stamps sometimes only for a day, a week or two (nearly always with some time away from Thailand ranging from days to weeks to months) and a combination of non-Bs and the odd tourist visa too and I haven't had problems either.

 

If your history of travel were a problem then Thailand's airport "hub" status, tourism industry, convention and business travel industries would all simultaneously collapse. Nearly all countries permit multiple travel over a relatively short period of time as long as it doesn't look like you are residing or work illegally in those countries, contrary to your visa conditions.

 

I think we are getting closer to figuring out who Thai immigration is targeting, without all this hearsay and anecdotal reports from people who leave out information and/or try to scaremonger us.

[moto77]

Do they really look at previous stamps to see your immigration history? I thought they registered your national ID in their systems. What is it they are typing if not that?

 

Anyway, glad to hear.

 

I don't know. She certainly went through mine too fast to be counting. I think she was just looking for a blank page. In my passport the blanks start about 25 pages in... :)