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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing Visa Runs. This has been something that has been kind of percolating in the background the last roughly 90 days out here. I am going to jump in with this. This actually comes from the Thai Government, basically the spokesman for the Thai Government, PRD, or I should say thailand.prd.go.th under the headline: Visa Runs limited to 2 under new Thailand Immigration Measures. Quoting directly: "Tightening the screening of 90-day Visa-exempt entries" - so what they mean is there are some nationalities that are currently being stamped in with 90-days visa Exemption and there are some like American passports, British passports that get 60 days upon entry. They are talking about curtailing all of this back to 30 days again; they are seriously talking about it too. I think it will probably happen although as of the time this video it is yet to the best of my knowledge, to have occurred. So that is sort of on the horizon as well but this is specific to Visa Runs. Let me keep going here - "without returning to one's home country." - and that's the important part here. It's the notion that you go to some third-party country and return to Thailand and try to use exemption status to maintain further ongoing lawful status in Thailand, that's the operative phraseology here: "without returning to one's home country" - that said quoting further: "Foreigners are capped at two visa runs; those with more visa runs without valid reasons will be denied entry at both international airports and border checkpoints. Since early 2025, the Immigration Bureau has refused entry to about 2,900 foreigners with similar patterns."

So understand here that what we are talking about, one, I need to kind of get into, and I know some people will think this is sort of semantic; there is sort of a difference between what I would call a Visa Run and a Border Run. Whereas a Border Run being you just run to a literal physical border, cross out, cross back in, get new status. Visa Run in my mind has always been leaving, dealing with an Embassy abroad, getting a new visa and coming back in. What they are talking about here though specifically pertains to what we would euphemistically refer to, at least in my analysis, as a Border Run. So we are talking about folks that are not trying to get a visa per se, they are trying to get again visa exempt entries utilizing just merely leaving and coming back in. Now whether they fly, whether they take a boat, whether they go by land and cross in and cross out, whatever, if you are trying to simply leave and return and maintain status via visa exempt, you're only going to be able to do that twice a year; that's the first thing to understand. 

But more importantly, it comes down to this issue of "without returning to one's home country". That is another important aspect of this. Again, and it also pertains to those not getting an actual Visa. So if you leave, you go out, you actually get a visa and come back in, different analysis; that's not exactly what they are talking about. Also, if you end up going back to your home country at a certain point, it changes the analysis regarding the possibility of being able to return to Thailand again and use Visa Exemption Status; it might allow you to thereby do that in the aftermath of having been back to one's home country.

Again, one cannot do sort of one size fits all analysis with regarding Immigration Law. One's own travel history as well as the prevailing facts and the prevailing paradigm of Immigration at any given moment where one is looking to return, will end up driving any analysis regarding lawful entry to the Kingdom of Thailand.