Can I apply for a Non-O multi-entry retirement visa while in Thailand on a tourist visa?

@Kobe *****

You cannot apply for a 365-days Multi Entry Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa inside Thailand

You will need to apply in your home country.

It could be applied for in Thailand’s neighbor countries, however I have noticed many of the embassies & consulates are discontinuing this option. Only applications for Single Entry 90-days Non-Imm-O visa are remaining.

You can enter Thailand on a simple 60-days Tourist Visa and apply for the “change of visa type” from the TR-visa to a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement visa on Immigration, as long as 15 days are remaining on your stay permit stamp. You need proof of 800.000.- THB in your Thai bank account on the day of the application, so no problem, you already got that proof.

Up from 30 days left from the 90 days, as soon as the bank certifies in a letter that the 800.000.- THB have been sitting in your account a minimum of 2 months, you can apply for the “1-year extension of stay permit based on retirement/over 50 years old”

No health insurance proof needed for the whole process. Neither before nor after.

You will have to renew the “1-year EOS” every other year. In case you wish to travel outside Thailand, you will need to buy a re-entry permit in order to keep your extended stay permit alive

Following the Link for the “change of visa type” off the Immigration website. Your requirements would be listed under number 9, just click on the text

I got mine same day

You can get retirement visa, cost 1900,- thb, and buy additional re-entry permit for extra 3900,- thb

You can only apply for the multiple entry non-O visa based on married to a Thai from outside of Thailand.

You cannot get a multiple entry non-O visa based on being over 50.

In Thailand you can only apply for the 90 day 0-entry non-O visa and after 2 months you can then apply for the 1 year extension. If you need to leave Thailand you can apply for a re-entry permit, either single re-entry or multiple re-entry.