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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing Border Runs here in the Kingdom. I thought of making this video after reading a recent comment on our channel, quoting directly: "So get a Retirement Visa with Re-Entry Permit, make a weekend vacation every 3 months prior to 90 days and never worry about reporting." 

Yeah, in fact I used to do that. I never loved 90-day reporting. There was a time when I first got here, the first couple of years, they didn't ever seem to care much about 90-day reporting. I remember coming in like 5 years in, they started really enforcing that. It kind of reminds me a little bit of how TM30 worked where yeah it was always on the books but they didn't really enforce it and then one day they just started enforcing it. Like I said, that happened about 5, yeah about 5 years in for me and I just didn't like it; I didn't really love doing it. 

Now we provide assistance to our clients with 90-day reporting as a service to our clients, many of them avail themselves of it so there are ways to deal with this other than what we're talking about in this video. But yeah you could in theory have an O Retirement Visa in Thailand and just on day 89 take a trip over to Phnom Penh for example and maybe spend the weekend, then come right back. I used to do it all the time. I had friends over in Phnom Penh and I would go visit them and I would just do it as part of the 90-day report, gave me a reason to kind of leave Thailand, kind of clear my head a little bit and not have to deal with 90-day reporting. The choice is, it is up to the individual what they want to go ahead and do but yeah it is possible to sort of use Border Runs as a way around 90-day reporting. 

At the end of the day, Thai Immigration wants to see that you have checked in with an Immigration Officer every quarter; that is sort of the way it works in practice, so again Border Running can operate in lieu of 90-day reporting.