Can you apply for a Non-O retirement visa from within Thailand on a PE visa?

@James *******

no. You could go to the Covid extension but still cannot obtain any other visa without leaving and returning after holding the PE visa

@Mika *******

you could indeed use the covid extension to "buy time" to see if the entry requirements to thailand lighten up IF the immigration office you apply at will sell you a covid extension and as long as you did it before the 25th of Jan when the covid extension program runs out

@Mika *******

you can go get the 60 day covid extension on your own as long as you do it before the 25th of Jan (the day the program runs out) AND as long as you have 30 days or less left on your current elite stamp.

All it's going to do is buy time so you can leave the country though, because even off a covid extension, as long as it tracks back to the elite entry you can't get an in country visa issued from it.

@Mika *******

you can't apply for the Non-O until you bounce out and back and get OFF the elite entry stamp and all the extensions from it and come back on a new stamp.

AND

To apply for the Non-O visa inside the country there is no seasoning of the 400K baht funds, it just has to be in the account the date you apply, so until you can get out and back and THEN begin the process there is no gun to your head to get the funds in now.

@Ron ******

interesting ...thank you.

I had thought the Thai Elite visa is a glorified Tourist Visa. Therefore could obtain a Non O for retirement in country. But I am not expert re the PE visa

@James *******

no. It isn't a tourist or non immigrant visa. It's a PE visa and has it's own standing.

Hence you cannot go to a PE visa in country from a non immigrant visa or extension

@Ron ******

I bow to your expertise. ENJOY your evening 🍷🍷

@James *******

thanks! 🤣