Can I apply for a one-year Non-Immigrant O visa in Thailand if I have over 800,000 baht in my bank account?

Yes, you can apply for visa changes.

I was required to get my non-immigrant O visa at a thai consulate "outside of Thailand"...which was not so bad. That was many moons ago..however. In any case, a simple trip to Savanahet, Laos...applied and got it the same day. Then came back and got the one year extension on it, before the 90 days were up. At that time, I did hear some people were able to convert their tourist visa to a non O, in Bangkok (perhaps as well as some other places). Why don't you just call an Immigration Office in Bangkok and ask?

Why do people put themselves through all this crap to stay in a country that constantly changes its rules in order to make it more and more difficult to stay here?

YOU ARE NOT WANTED HERE! Take the hint and move to a country like Vietnam which welcomes us with open arms and is a lot cheaper than Thailand,

Wake up people before the Thai government seized all you money and leaves you with nothing! You have been warned!

the planet is so big why on earth would you search in Pattaya ??? gotta be really shrink minded

You can apply, your question should be do I qualify?

How do you get your bank account open if you apply for an OA visa from another country?

Yes you can

Do it at home Embassy ie London

Just curious…how’d you get a Thai bank acct w/o being a resident? I keep reading it’s impossible.

Yes. You can. You have to provide a home address. Not hotel.

Yes , you can.

I also changed my husband’s status from a tourist visa to a Non-O Retirement Visa because he had already had a bank account in Thailand for more than 15 years.

We had been living outside Thailand all along, but my husband opened a bank account in Thailand and continued depositing money into the account regularly.

When he reached retirement age, we traveled to Thailand on a tourist visa and immediately applied to change his status upon arrival in Thailand.

As of today, we have been living in Thailand for over three years.

Better to start non o from home. Then get year extension in Thailand.

I have had the B800,000 in Bangkok Bank for 30 years. Because I often worked in other countries and could not maintain my Non-O visa, I just came in on 30day permission to stay and went to Bangkok Immigration and applied for a Non-O visa again which is the only Visa issued in Thailand. They gave me another 30 days extension while they made sure I was not cheating by using an agent, and then gave me 12months again. in 1999 I was using an agent to do my accounts and visa but she got arrested and thrown out the country because she was helping other foreigners run fake companies with nominee shareholders.

Thai government has made it into a JOB with all this visa stuff .

Better to be from India than Europe with all the hassle involved. Good luck, CHOKDII to you all

So many people here not knowing what they're talking about and making things up .

Axelthai Slewuap . . there is nothing such as a one month tourist visa, and there is nothing such as a 1-year Non-Immigrant O Visa. . . . . What you are going to do is, enter either visa-exempt (60 or 30 days, depends) or on a single entry 60-days Tourist Visa. Apply for the "change of visa type" on Immigration from the touristic entry, to the initial 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, while you still have a minimum of 15 days left on your admitted stay. You must show a minimum of 800,000 THB already sitting in your Thai bank account. You must show a rental contract of a minimum of 3 months. The fee is 2000 Baht, the stamp is issued for 14 days "under consideration" first. . . . . And up from 30 days before the 90 days expire, apply for the "One Year Extension of the Stay Permit Based on Retirement". The 800,000 THB must have seasoned for 2 months, you show the bank letter that confirms it, and pay a fee of 1900 Baht. The one-year stay permit is not a "one year retirement visa", it just is an extended stay permit and not a visa

At home dont take long . But only allowed to hold 1 visa

The big question is: Do you still hold a valid non-O Visa or it has already expired?

jesper ngiam has the correct answer

It's much easier to get the initial 90-day non-o visa in your home country.. using funds held in your home bank account.. then enter Thailand using that.. once you have 30 days or less left on that visa you can apply for the 12-month extension of stay at your local immigration office.. and will use your Thai bank account funds to fulfil the financial requirements.. note, some offices will allow you to apply for the extension when there is 45 days left on the visa.. eg. Chiang Mai 👍

You have to sort th non-o outside of Thailand. So do that first. Then enter 2ith that, I'm sure you'll be fine.

Why are you not getting your Non-O before you travel as it makes arrival so much easier?

No

You need the appropriate visa

O A visa

Yes....you can apply for the initial 90days nonO inside thailand there after do the 1yr extension.....u need to have more than 15days on your current stamp to apply ....passport copies, bank letter , bank statements, bank book ,Tm30 , lease agreement and pay 2000baht ....you will get a receipt and a date to go back to immigration to ink your 90days.....run the 90days down to 30days and do the 1yr extension with almost identical docs and pay 1900baht ....can be done without a agent .....good luck

While there is no 1 month tourist visa as many folks are pointing out..

You can apply for a Non-O inside of Thailand if you already have the Thai bank.

But why would you?

Just apply before you go.

No such thing as a one month tourist visa, it's a 60 day tourist visa and currently a visa exempt entry still gets you stamped in for 60 days although at some point that might reduce to 30.

Whether or not you can convert your entry to a Non-O visa based on retirement will depend entirely on whether the immigration office you will use is allowed to issue such a visa, not all can, you may also need to be able to show that the money in your bank account has originated from overseas and you need at least 15 days (21 in some locations) on your current entry stamp in order to apply.

I'd suggest it's much easier to apply for the 90 day Non-O visa before you travel to Thailand, not only for the above reasons but it also eliminates 2 visits to your immigration office. You can still use the money in your thai bank account when applying elsewhere if you wish.

Yes, you can convert a tourist visa (60 days) or tourist exempt to Non-O given the fact you already have a Thai bank account with 800k. Is it easy? NO! Much easier to apply for the non-o BEFORE coming to Thailand.

You must get 90 day non O first and then 1 year.

I never heard of a month tourist visa

There’s no such thing as 1 month tourist visa

Because of what you already have - Yes

There are 4 main offices that can help with this

Providing you can meet their criteria

Phuket

Jomtien

Chiang Mai

Bangkok