Could someone please advise what happens now? My girlfriend is in BKK on a 90 day tourist visa. Since she is now living here, I need to renew it. Money not really an issue, as if she does not get it, then she must fly back to USA....

So, can I just fly her out of LOS (say, Singapore?), then reapply for a new one?

Will the Thai Consulate reissue the 90 day tourist visa every time?

Any suggestions on which will be the most helpful consulate?

Will any paperwork help?

If she leaves LOS, can she come back in (ie, multiple entry?) and the days just must add up to less than 90?

I am working, have Non immigrant B, work permit and good job. Job will cover if/when I get married, but not ready for that yet. She is USA citizen, arrived in October.

Thanks for your help in advance..

Will the Thai Consulate reissue the 90 day tourist visa every time?

Any suggestions on which will be the most helpful consulate?

Will any paperwork help?

If she leaves LOS, can she come back in (ie, multiple entry?) and the days just must add up to less than 90?

Some consulates in the region have been reported to refuse a tourist visa to an applicant who is not resident in the country where the Thai consulate is located. Phnom Penh and Yangon seem particularly notorious in this regard.

Latest reports indicate that Singapore is still issuing double-entry tourist visas. Such visa allows two visits to Thailand within 180 days (visa validity) and upon each entry the tourist is given permission to stay for 60 days. Before expiration of these 60 days, application can be made at any immigration office in Thailand for a 30-day extension of permission to stay.

Technically, your US friend can live in Thailand indefinitely in Thailand doing these runs to get a new visa roughly every 180 days and in between do a visa run to activate the second entry of a double-entry visa. I say “technically” because there may come the time when the consulate feels that her purpose of staying in Thailand is not really tourism and may give a single-entry visa only or none at all. Such decision is always at the discretion of the consulate. To the best of my knowledge, no written rule exists, at least none that would be available to the public.

Paperwork? Application form, available at the consulate; passport photographs – two, I believe; evidence of adequate finance (20,000 Baht), if the consulate asks for it, but so far I have seen only one report where this was requested, by the consulate in Manila and that's another place to anyway, based on less than flattering reports by people who went there.

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Maestro