Can I get a one-year extension on my non-immigrant O visa if I leave Thailand before it expires?

@St***

You could go to Savannakhet Lao or Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam and get a new year-long, multi-entry Non-O visa if you wanted to.

Neither of those consulates require proof of funds to issue that visa and only minimal documentation.. It's 5000baht for the visa in Savannakhet and 200USD for it in HCMC

OR are you on a year-long, multi-entry Non-O visa (from a thai consulate in another country) where you exit/re-enter the country every 90 days?

@Steve ****************

where did you get your last extension? You apply for a yearly extension at the immigration office that serves the area where you live.

I'd stop by the immigration office that you're going to use (with your thai wife) and get the hand out that lists the photos, documents, copies, bank letters, etc that you need for the extension.

@Steve ****************

, right, extensions of stay are issued for a year at a time (unless your passport expires before that year; as you found out). Every year you apply for a totally NEW yearly extension of stay.

Most offices let you apply for a new yearly extension when you have 30 days or less left on your current one.

@St***

the financial requirements for a yearly extension of stay based on marriage to a thai is 400K baht in a thai bank account in your name only for 2 months before you apply for your extension.

Once you apply for the extension it will go 'under consideration' for 30 days, then you go back and get the extension inked into your passport.

Some immigration offices want you to keep the 400K baht in the account for that 30 day under consideration period too. Check with your immigration office to see how they do it

@St***

unfortunately, there is no Non-O visa offered for being with a thai family :( You can have it based on marriage to a thai or raising half thai children..

@Steve ****************

what are you getting a new Non-O visa/extension for? What's the reason?

@Steve ****************

Why do you need to leave before 2nd May? Is that your current Admitted to Stay date?