How much money do I need to show in my bank statement for a Non-O retirement visa application outside Thailand?

@Frangipani ******

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 a simple check of his profile would have told you that he is a Bulgaria citizen. You know, the World does NOT revolve around the United States of A

@Greg **********

seeing that you want to pick a fight, your first statement is incorrect.

As I have stated too many times now, the 800,000 B only applies when you apply for an EXTENSION.

Prior to that, it depends on what county you apply from .

PRONTO!

@Greg **********

sorry mate. You are WRONG.

Please don’t post unless you try to understand what you are talking about!!!!

@Frangipani ******

of course he can enter visa-exempt and apply for the "change of visa type"to a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa on Immigration, if he fulfills the requirements . . . . . If you do not know about this possibility, you should not post,

@Greg **********

Of Course he can..?

You may not know that every IMO has different rules,

Why do keep posting incorrect shit on this site?

@Frangipani ******

You should really stop posting and leave any visa advice to the experts . . . . .click onto number 9, it shows the standing police order of requirements for the "change" to a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa on Immigration. OF COURSE Everybody over 50 years can apply for the change. How his specific Immigration will actually interpret this police order, this is something YOU and Myself and NOBODY can predict. At least I know that Jomtien, Khon Kaen and Surat Thani have slightly different requirements on the bank deposit (needs a seasoning for the initial visa, not just for the application to the extension. He has asked for the financial requirements for the visa application, and I have shown him a way to avoid applying in his home country but apply for the Non-O visa on Immigration inside Thailand. Click on number 9 and learn something new . . . .

@Greg **********

Well. That was not his initial question, was it?

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@Frangipani ******

"Apply for a Non O in your home country. The Thai 🇹🇭 consulate or embassy in your home country will tell you what is required to APPLY for a Non O (it is not that much)." 😂 . . . . . . . . . . . your advice is useless . . . . . . the consulate of his home country doesn't show any requirement info. And the website of the embassy Bucharest, which he could use as a citizen of Bulgaria, also is useless. There is zero info on their website, which is a complete mess and hasn't been updated since November 30, 2022. So your advice gets him nowhere. So much for you telling me not to post if I don't know what I am talking about. I apparently know a lot about the threadstarter's situation. You should have checked where he is from, before you posted useless advice 😉 Please don’t post unless you try to understand what you are talking about!!!! 😎

@Frangipani ******

pray tell me WHAT part of my advice would be wrong 🙂

@John *********

Well I opened the website despite my Kaspersky warning me. Neither is there any info about the e-visa system, and further there is not one lonely hint on the requirements for the application to the Non-Imm-O Retirement visa. You must have seen a different website or you must have been dreaming 😃

@Greg **********

lol. You trust Kaspersky? Are you for real?

@John *********

absolutely. Kaspersky has saved my computers many times, over two decades. Why would he destroy his business base? All that bad talk about him is big BS. I once tried NORTON Antivirus - that shit was a problem by itself 😄

@John *********

could you please give me a valid link to the Royal Thai Consulate Sofia, a link that doesn't send my Virusscanner into alarm mode ? 🙂

@Greg **********

@Jim ******

you don't need insurance to apply for a visa outside Thailand. That is the non OA visa that very few use now. Most people get the non O visa instead, before they come to Thailand and that way you can open a bank account without an agent.

Using an agent to deposit 800,000 baht for you Is illegal. If the immigration officer is investigated all of their visas are cancelled and you will be deported (yes it does happen I have spoken to 2 people this happened to). My advice would be to delete your answers on here and get a legal extension next time.

@Stuart **********

I have been to Thai exactly 100 times since 2000, never stayed more than a month and have never had any visa. It is a 5 hours flight for me.

Why would I delete answers that are rolling in the streets, anyone can see them on the net?

When applying from outside of Thailand, Thai Embassy site says:

"8. One original and one copy of health insurance policy

● Must issue by insurance company in Thailand, Japan or other country

● Must cover all the period of stay in Thailand

● Must cover not the medical treatment of not less than the equivalent of 40,000 Baht for out-patient benefit and not less than the equivalent of 400,000 Baht of in-house patient benefit"

@Jim ******

no health insurrance for the non-o - only for the non-oa. You didn't read it properly - read it again.

@Kim ********

Non - O Visa, requires health insurance when applying outside of Thailand.

@Jim ******

unsure what travelling here hundreds of times and 5 hour flight has to do with it, but I thought you said you got an agent here to apply for your visa?

Up to you, but if I was doing something illegal i would not advertise it on Facebook.

You are clearly looking at the wrong visa, you need to look at the non O visa not the non OA.

@Stuart **********

I do not have an agent, it was one agent office where I went for free consultation. I have not applied for anything yet. Those advertising are the visa agencies, Internet has thousands of them.

100 times to Thai from Japan (a 5 hours flight) with 1 month stay without any visa just says (if it holds) with 2 months stay I can go 3 times a year and need nothing, my fully furnished and functional home is always there. Don't need bank account, visa, insurance other that what can be bought at the airport of departure. Can even hop on a low coster to Singapore or Vientiane and get another 2 months if I must.

@Jim ******

fair enough and yes there are lots of visa agents. Some people struggle with the process and need help, I understand that.

The illegal part is circumventing the 800k baht part.

@Stuart **********

That was a warning light for me: when I told the agency I can deposit 800K Baht on the spot, they said they do not need that, no change in their fee, stopped short of telling me to forget about that deposit.

@Jim ******

definitely to be avoided, I agree.

It's a very simple process, if you arrive with your non O visa, you can then open a bank account, deposit 800k, wait 2 months then apply at immigration for the extension of stay based on retirement. I have extended mine 3 times now and it takes me less than an hour. It is 1 simple form to complete and lots of photocopies of your documents etc, no need for an agent. Good luck.