extend METV twice in Mae Sai?

[bodo]

Is it allowed to extend a METV twice by going to Mae Sai/Tachilek and return the same day?

[ubonjoe]

You cannot extend a visa. You can extend a permit to stay at a immigration office.

You apparently are asking about getting a new 60 day entry from your METV. You can leave and re-enter to get a new 60 day entry on the same day at Mae Sai or any other crossing as many times as you want up to the enter before date on the visa.

[bodo]

So because a requirement of a METV is that one has to leave the country every 60 days, would it be possible to get almost 9 months out of the METV by going 3 times to Mae Sai, back-to-back, and do the last trip just before the expiry of the visa?

[Eclipse]

Yes.

[ubonjoe]

You can extend each 60 day entry for 30 days at an immigration office for 30 days if you want to for a fee of 1900 baht.

If you do a crossing for a new entry on or before the enter before date on your visa you can get almost 9 months from the visa by extending the last entry for 30 days.

[bodo]

So If I get a SETV at Vientiane after having gotten almost 9 months out of the METV this would give me about a year in total.

Can I repeat this process, METV in combination with SETV?

[ubonjoe]

So If I get a SETV at Vientiane after having gotten almost 9 months out of the METV this would give me about a year in total.

Can I repeat this process, METV in combination with SETV?

Yes you could.

[Suradit69]

So If I get a SETV at Vientiane after having gotten almost 9 months out of the METV this would give me about a year in total.

Can I repeat this process, METV in combination with SETV?

Yes, but getting an METV in a nearby country is unlikely. Some (most??) Thai embassies/consulates require that you be a citizen or legal resident of the country in which the embassy or consulate is located to apply for an METV.