rich1.0vincenzzo wrotevincenzzo (npub10e…wyd5x)https://yabu.me/npub10e50y57lutmex7jqmam2cl46ukvkd3sx0lrsxuk54t5etzftwseq6wyd5xnjumphttps://yabu.meIf anyone wants to spend a few months in Thailand here is a run down on the visa situation at the moment (August 2023).
On arrival you get a 30 day tourist visa. This used to be 45 but now it's 30.
You can extend this without leaving the country for another 30 days by visiting the local immigration office and filling some forms, paying 1900 BHT (55 USD) and waiting a few hours. They don't yet accept BTC but there is a BTC community here in Chiang Mai.
Now if you want to stay longer than 60 days then you have options.
If you want to stay up to 6 months then at the end of your 60 days after above extension you need to do a 'border run'.
You can do this by land or air and it's simply leaving Thailand briefly and returning to renew the visa.
If you go by land as many do when you re enter you get another 30 days and you can extend that another 30 as per above.
You can do a land border run twice per calendar year. So with the initial visa and two land border runs you could stay approx 6 months.
If you have used all your land border runs then you can get a flight and return to get another 60 days.
In theory you can do air border runs indefinitely but at some point it's possible thai immigration officials will tell you to stop or you may just get sick of it.
If you want to avoid all of this then you can apply for an education visa and study a few times a week in any language or even Muav Thai if that's your thing. You can renew this yearly at approx 50,000 BAHT or 1500 USD.
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