How do I renew my Thai retirement visa or switch to a marriage visa?

@Thomas ****

if you're from the US you make an appointment online at the American Citizens Services website. You download the affidavit of income form and fill it out. On your appointment day you show up at the US consulate here in Bangkok, get the form notarized and that's it.

This is the link to the appointment system in Bangkok

Keep your retirement lot less hassle

Thomas, another thing you could do if you can't meet the financial requirements IS

seeing as you're married to a thai go to the thai consulate in Savannakhet Lao and get a year-long, multi-entry Non-O visa based on marriage for 5000baht.

That consulate doesn't require ANY proof of funds to issue that visa and they only require minimal documentation

On that visa you would have to exit/re-enter the country every 90 days for the validity of the visa but you could get 15 months of stay (in 90 day increments) out of it.

If your current extension expires in Oct, you can apply for a NEW yearly extension of stay when you have 30 days or less left on that stamp (so in Sept some time).

You could apply for it based on being over 50 (retirement) like you did last time by either banking 800K baht in a thai bank account in your name only for 3 months prior to your application OR by getting the notarized affidavit of income from abroad letter from your consulate stating you get over 65k baht a month in income from abroad.

You could change the reason for your extension to marriage if you wanted to.

The financial requirements for an extension based on marriage are 400K baht banked in a thai bank account in your name only for 2 months prior to your application being filed OR a notarized affidavit of income from abroad letter from your consulate stating you get 40K baht a month in income.

While the financials are less, the documentation is way more. AND applications for extensions based on marriage go under consideration for 30 days (during which the immigration officers can come and do an in home visit <- more common up country) before you go back and get the yearly extension inked into your passport.

This is a visa and this is an extension of stay

You don't have a visa at all then :O

What you have is a yearly extension of stay.

Look at your stamp it will clearly say

extension of stay permitted until ..... and have a date

There are several things that are commonly referred to as a retirement visa (even though no such visa exists) :O

Did you get this 'retirement visa' inside of thailand or outside of thailand at a thai consulate in your country BEFORE you came here.

That will narrow down the answers some.