What advice is available for an Australian seeking a retirement visa in Thailand after staying on a tourist visa?

Don't go to an agent in a different city, or you will have to go to that City or pay the agent again when you do your first 90 day report

It's an english term for a deadbeat

Anything positive to say Richard?

Most of you are dead beat losers with no money and have nothing in youre own country

Go home

Should be sorted before now .

Get a Thai National to go with you to the immigration centre . Let her do the talking .

Smile and be polite .

Send your query to Thai visa center.

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There is any number of reasons why people use agents to get the visas/extensions they're after. Most of the time it's because the person doesn't meet the financial requirements for the visa/extension they're wanting (because IF you did meet the requirements you could "push your own paper", I mean after all it's not brain science or rocket surgery).

Now sometimes people who do meet the requirements are just too shit lazy to actually go get their own extension and use an agent to do it, but that's rare..

Another thing you need to understand, there's a HUGE difference between using an agency to get a visa/extension for you because you don't meet the requirements AND when a person does meet the requirements but uses a company that acts as a 'shepherd' <- making sure your paperwork is correct, getting you to the immigration office, into the correct queue, and escorting you thru the process. Those companies (which might fall under the agent/agency label) are not doing anything other than making sure you have your shit together and don't fuck yourself off the rails by showing up unprepared for what you're doing.

End of self-opinionated rant :P

apparently my advice was wrong I apologize as your inside Thailand and its different

The BIG question is

do you meet the financial requirements to GET first a 90 day non-O visa and then a yearly extension based on retirement on your own at the immigration office

By that I mean did you transfer 800K baht into a thai bank account from overseas and is it in the account for 2 months?

If the answer to that question (can you meet the proof of funds) is NO, then your option is to contact an agency that pushes paper for people so they can get the visa and extension for you

I found everything I needed to do it myself by reading recent posts in this group. If that's too much work, well, I guess agents gotta eat, too.

Talk to Mots in Pattaya.

Three months then another twelve.

Thai visa center 34,000 baht in total for a three then a year retirement visa and you don't have to show cash or insurance. I've used it before and will again.

need health insurance after age 50, expensive

Pattaya visa agent will sort it for you 25k baht per year

Best way 0.00 in thai bank for 3 months. Simple after that

Yes, don't take advice from people like me.

What you want to know I've just completed mine