The Ultimate Guide to Thai Visas - Read At Your Own Risk
The Thailand Visa Multiverse: Where Every Officer Is the Main Character Welcome to Thailand, where the visa regulations are made up, the printed guidelines don't matter, and the only certainty is that whatever worked yesterday won't work today. I used to think I understood Thai visas. I had the government website bookmarked. I'd printed the requirements. I even laminated them, like some kind of naive optimist preparing for a logical universe. Then I met Immigration Officer #1, and my laminated dreams crumbled like a stale roti. The Visa Exempt Shuffle: From 60 to 30 and Back Again Ah, the visa-exempt entry. The simplest option. Fly in, get stamped, stay thirty days. Or sixty. Or forty-five. Or whatever number the officer feels like today. Last year, they bumped it to sixty days. The Facebook groups erupted in celebration. "We're saved!" people cried, as if Thailand had finally embraced us as permanent, visa-free residents of their hearts. Then they changed it ...