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Thailand Visa-Free Is Now 30 Days: 3 Ways to Stay Longer

Baan Thai Immigration Solutions

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Thailand has cut visa-free stays from 60 to 30 days, effective 15 September 2026. The good news: you can still holiday in Thailand for 60 days, 90 days or even longer. Here are 3 easy ways to do it.
In this video, we walk through how to double your 30-day visa-exempt stay to 60 days at any Immigration office. How to stay around 90 days using Thailand as a base for regional trips, and how the Multiple Entry Tourist Visa (METV) lets you explore Thailand and the SE Asia region for up to 6 months.

KEY DETAILS
30-day visa-exempt stay: no government fee (but don’t forget your TDAC)
60-day stay: extend once at an immigration office with form TM.7, passport copies, a TM.30 report from your hotel, a 4x6 cm photo and a 1,900 THB (about US$57) fee
In Bangkok, extensions are handled at the Immigration Bureau's Temporary Extension Center at IT Square Laksi, near Don Mueang Airport, not at Chaeng Watthana
90-day stay: extend, take a short trip to somewhere like Da Nang or Singapore, then re-enter for a new 30-day stamp
METV: apply online through the Royal Thai Embassy or Consulate in your home country; valid 6 months, up to 60 days per entry, about US$200
Fill in your Thailand Digital Arrival Card (TDAC) a couple of days before you fly. It's always free.

USEFUL LINKS
Form TM.7 (official Immigration Bureau website): https://zurl.co/Ytoct9
Our full METV video: The Truth About Thailand's New Entry Rules...
Thailand Digital Arrival Card (TDAC): https://tdac.immigration.go.th/arriva...

📩 Need Help With Your Case? Contact Baan Thai Team
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Timestamp
00:00 Visa Change Overview
00:23 Who Needs Longer
00:56 Extend to 60 Days
02:18 Extension Pro Tips
03:01 Plan a 90 Day Trip
03:42 Border Run Warnings
04:13 Multiple Entry Tourist Visa
05:11 Big Picture Wrap Up
05:56 TDAC

20 Comments

@dman030 10 hours ago

I can see why going to Thailand isn't so popular anymore.

@raystewart365 19 hours ago

Great info, many thanks

@PATRIOT-gt5vr 6 hours ago

i did multiple entry 6 month tourist visa thinking that is my solution. i did everything right. but the immigration officer at airport each time questioned my stays and my last stop said i could not use it anymore. if i come back in, they told me i had to have a long term visa even though i did not stay past 180 days. so don't get the 6 month visa. he is wrong on this issue.

@andraegaeth4626 4 hours ago (edited)

Thanks for the video. Makes it very clear. Just baffles me though why they have shortened to 30 days and then to extend to 60 days making you have to physically attend an immigration office and physically provide basic information that could’ve been provided as part of arrival declaration. So no new information. It’s like going back 10 years in time. So much simpler in Malaysia now- arrival declaration online, walk through e-gates at KL and you’ve got 90 days every time. And the DTV (multi stay, 60 days at a time) is becoming a headache with documents required to be first notarised and then apostilled by your local government before being sent to the Thai embassy. Thailand will start paying the price for this

@richardstevens8479 2 hours ago

Been visiting Thailand for a couple of months every year since the 90s, but I'll give it a miss this year.

@colinmackie8857 12 hours ago

If you want to stay up to 90 days the best way may be to buy a single entry 60 day tourist evisa (£30 in the UK), then get a 30 day extension once in Thailand. Why didn't he mention this? (Or did I miss it as I skipped through).

@hmh_ae 1 hour ago

Three easy ways, from the company that invoices the hard one. Extend for ₱1,900. Border-run, but not too often. Then the METV, and the contact link. The visa got shorter. The funnel didn’t.

@Snip59 9 hours ago

Malaysia,Singapore,Japan offer 90 days with extension.Been 3 times already to all just great.Going to immigration to extend sorry to say the line up is a farce one mistake you must start over again like many of my friends have.Better to just see a visa agent.To leave and pay for flights accommodation just not worth it.As the Thai Visa Portal site its best to just apply on the site for 60 then can extend another 30 or if your that age just get a Retirement Multi entry.

@NigelBarrett 6 hours ago

You fail to mention the 6 month visa can be seen as abused and not a tourist but resident if you apply too often too small a time gap and thus run the risk of denied the visa or denied entry.

@RossMcGree 9 hours ago

The UK website says that you can only visit Thailand twice on a 30 day visa free within one calendar year, so the idea of doing a return visit to Thailand to get another 30 day by taken a short break elsewhere, would exhaust the two entries during the one visit. Not all websites have been updated with the new information and I expect many do not know of this new rule

@NigelBarrett 6 hours ago

Habitual.6 month tourist visas are deemed resiential non tourist and you may be refused entry on a third visa attempt.
2 is ok if spaced out 6 montys abroad but that may be your limit as a deemed tourist.
It can happen most likely on either of your 2 manditory trips out and in.I.e trip.out nimber 5 or 6.
Refused entry granted after a third visa granted is unclear .
Possible in a short space if time thord application may fail.

It may be on your

@KnightlyHouse 5 hours ago

Multiple-entry tourist visa application from your home country ... but if you have legal residency in another country, then you can apply from there too. Correct?

@masonryjoe 14 hours ago

Can I get a multiple entry once I arrive in Thailand as it is a pain to get it in Ontario Canada, I work seasonal and like to stay 4 to 5 months, so would I still have to make border runs ?

@Paul-w4c8u 10 hours ago

E Gates? Has anybody used these to confirm s ticket is printed to keep in your passport instead of a stamp?

@kevintwin7018 5 hours ago

How about flight tickets? Do you have to buy round trip for 60 days first or you can buy 90 days? If you want to stay there for 3 months.

@hugueslecorre4893 14 hours ago

Visa free or evisa are intended for tourism. Maybe for one time the immigration officer will allow you to stay more than 60 days per year ,certainly not every year. It becomes temporary residence.

@finesoul677 43 minutes ago

Vietnam is 45 days visa free or 90 days online E-visa🙂

@Gazzapazza 16 hours ago (edited)

Get the proper visa if you want to stay in Thailand longer than 60 days. How many times does it need to be made clear they don’t want tourists staying longer than 60 days at the most as a tourist. Don’t take the risk get the proper visa relevant to longer stays thats what they’re their for.,

@kevintwin7018 6 hours ago

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@SteveFox-s5w 16 hours ago

Hi there, thanks for the information, next year I want to visit Thailand for a 6 week holiday next year, I was going to travel to Thailand and get 30 days on arrival then extend to another 30 days but have been told that the airline checks for a visa when I check in for my flight to Thailand as the return is beyond the 30 days but have visa free period. Isn this an issue you are aware of?