A friend of mine went to Ranong for his 30 day stamp and being worried about the new regulations, asked an officer[through his TGF] for his best course of action. He [according to him] said he was told by the officer to go up to Bkk, change his passport as it is almost full and getting close to its expiry date and afterwards he could stay for 7 years!!!!???

As a TV regular, I have never heard of such a thing, which I am sure would have cropped up by now. Can anyone clarify what the officer perhaps meant as my mate has clearly got the wrong end of the stick?

a. He is unmarried.

b. He does not qualify for a retirement visa due to lack of funds.

c. He has been here for a year or so on 30 day stamps.

I would have told him to post this himself but he does not even know what a computer looks like. Thanks in advance.

A friend of mine went to Ranong for his 30 day stamp and being worried about the new regulations, asked an officer[through his TGF] for his best course of action. He [according to him] said he was told by the officer to go up to Bkk, change his passport as it is almost full and getting close to its expiry date and afterwards he could stay for 7 years!!!!???

As a TV regular, I have never heard of such a thing, which I am sure would have cropped up by now. Can anyone clarify what the officer perhaps meant as my mate has clearly got the wrong end of the stick?

a. He is unmarried.

b. He does not qualify for a retirement visa due to lack of funds.

c. He has been here for a year or so on 30 day stamps.

I would have told him to post this himself but he does not even know what a computer looks like. Thanks in advance.

Does somebody know the difference between 7 days and 7 years?Either in Thai or in English?

Sorry for your friend

A friend of mine went to Ranong for his 30 day stamp and being worried about the new regulations, asked an officer[through his TGF] for his best course of action. He [according to him] said he was told by the officer to go up to Bkk, change his passport as it is almost full and getting close to its expiry date and afterwards he could stay for 7 years!!!!???

As a TV regular, I have never heard of such a thing, which I am sure would have cropped up by now. Can anyone clarify what the officer perhaps meant as my mate has clearly got the wrong end of the stick?

a. He is unmarried.

b. He does not qualify for a retirement visa due to lack of funds.

c. He has been here for a year or so on 30 day stamps.

I would have told him to post this himself but he does not even know what a computer looks like. Thanks in advance.

Either he heard wrong or the officer (or his TGF) was having a bit of fun at his expense. Maybe the officer had had enough of dealing with falang questions or his TGF was misleading him on purpose. (Yes, you stay for seven years, you buy me a house, No?)

Never heard about this, got to be some (terrible) missunderstanding!

My guess is that it concerned the new passport and it's validity..

Yes, I did wonder if "You can stay for 7 years" could also translate as "Jesus. Not another one. Look, just get the <deleted> out of my face, will you?"

I suspect the passport will have enough pages to last 7 years worth of stamps?

I suspect the passport will have enough pages to last 7 years worth of stamps?

I reckon the officer was extracting the urine from him.