How does the Thai immigration office determine the exchange rate for retirement visa applications?

There is really no accepted standard however

daytodaydata.net is a close as you will get to a standard used by Immigration offices

@Chri*****

, some offices will accept double the amount in a joint account for retirement extensions and some won't. If you're both going to meet the financial requirements, before you go for the extensions I'd go to your immigration office and check to see if they will or won't do it.

In reality only one person needs to meet the financial requirement and their spouse (even if old enough to get their own retirement extension) can "piggy back" onto it by being the spouse of someone who legally has a yearly extension of stay.

Do they accept 1.6 mil in one account for 2 applications (married couple) or do we both have to have seperate bank accounts? Any couples have experience of this for their retirement visas? We don't really want to open new accounts.

@R**

, close, for the first yearly extension it's 60 days (which might or might not be 2 months), and for subsequent ones it's 3 calendar months.

Also IF you are using the combination method most immigration offices want the banked money to be seasoned the appropriate amount of time as well.

the requirement for banked money is that it is in a thai bank account in your name. BUT it can be a foreign currency account as long as it equals 800K baht.

You cannot bank the money in your country and use it for the financial requirement.

You can use the income affidavit from your consulate to state you get over 65K baht a month in income from outside thailand though.

I am sorry to disagree :/ but they pretty much do it exactly as I said in my earlier post.

I have personally sat at the officers desk with people and seen every scenario I mentioned play out.

Leave a margin in the conversion rates, don't cut it too close..