Can my friend convert her Non-Immigrant O-A visa to a Non-O visa in Thailand based on retirement income?

I visited the Canadian embassy in Bangkok last week and there was a notice on the wall stating that they will discontinue issuing income verification letters for visa applications

No I had to exit and re enter and start from scratch ,800k in my Thai bank account,I think Canada has stopped the income verification letter so cash

Regarding heirs Only moneys transferred from abroad will be allowed out of the country in case that’s the concern - hence keep copies of the emails received from the bank showing proofs of foreign account transfer - contact a law firm and have a will signed with that specific

Your friend have to leave the country without reentry permit and then come to Thailand on tourist or 60 days Visa exemption and start non-o

Simpler to just stay on the OA extensions. Assuming she has 800,000 baht in an interest-bearing account, it would suddenly become non-interest (or very little) bearing, parking it in a Thai account to get a visa. The interest income alone might be enough to pay for the health insurance required by the OA extension....and then she has health insurance, which a lot of people think is important to have anyway.

We normally don't do these "asking for a friend" posts <- because you don't know the particulars if we need to ask more questions about the situation as you're not the visa/extension holder.

Be that as it may, I will give the answers to what you asked

Nope, she can't convert to anything from that OA

She would have to exit the country, get OFF the OA extension, re-entry on a free stamp entry, then apply first for the 90 day Non-O visa at the immigration office for 2000baht, wait the review period, go back, get the Non-O and 90 day stamp inked in and then 2 months later apply for the year extension for 1900baht

Bad thing is, she's not gonna get EITHER of those (the 90 day Non-O or the year extension) with monthly income (even if she had 12 months of the minimum 65K baht a month coming in to a thai bank account). The in country Non-O and the first year extension have to be done with banked money method.

So have her get the 800K baht banked, bounce her out/back to get off the OA and then start the process for the Non-O and year extension