What are the best options and agencies for applying for a Non-O retirement visa in Udon Thani, Thailand?

@SJ ******

Oh, so your a friend's counter champ 😂 Keep on living your life wrapped in a blanket.

@Chris *****

A lot of things happen in life man, if your afraid of everything, you lose and life beats the fuck outta you. "Live Life"

@Trav *********

I do live my life very much have done for many years but I ain't about to leave or start giving any woman like she a charity case

@Chris *****

What the fuck you on about champ!!!!!

@Trav *********

basically I ain't giving no woman no money for nothing

@Trav *********

exactly why you should follow my advice...so you have more chance of living your life rather than she/he lives it for you.

@Maitin ******

non O visa is a yearly visa nothing is guaranteed in life especially all the constant changes they do in Thailand the only long term visa in Thailand is the 20 year elite which costs a million baht if you had to leave Thailand in an emergency and your O visa expires you have to start the process all over again !

@Ossie ********

the 20 privilege visa is significantly more than 1 million baht. The Non O retirement visa is legally a long term visa. The DTV is a short term visa as you can't actually stay in Thailand for a year ( you must leave ). Maybe banks are giving DTV holders a very hard time opening accounts.

There is a 10 year ( really 5 + 5 ) LTR but I can't get health insurance and having to tie up $100,000 USD for 10 years in Thailand will cost me significantly more than the 1.5 million baht for the 10 year privilege visa

Even if I let my non O retirement visa expire because I left Thailand, once you have a place and a bank account, it's straight forward to go to immigration and get one.

@Ossie ********

what constant changes?

@Ossie ********

a Non-O visa is a 90 day visa. Once you are inside Thailand on that visa you can purchase annual extensions of stay ad infinitum without ever having to leave Thailand

@Vaughn *********

If you can find an agent that will do everything for you then there's no problem. But many agents have lost the ability to open bank accounts. So if you can't find an agent to do that, you'll need to leave and apply for the non-O from a Thai embassy, and then return with the non-O visa and start from there.

@Vaughn *********

I believe I got an initial 3 months and then you start doing 12 month extensions. It was not hard, just ask your local immigration what is required. But I already had a bank account because I initially came in on an OA visa.

@Vaughn *********

non-O gives you 90 days on entry. Then you open the bank account using it, and can apply for an extension every year if you meet the requirements.

@Vaughn *********

I had opened a bangkok bank account previously when looking for condo

@Vaughn *********

I am going to Laos to do my O visa. Cross friendship bridge get visa and come back.

@Vaughn *********

You can get a Non-O from a neighbouring country such as Laos, no need to fly home unless you want a Non-OA

@Graham *****

if you go Non OA you need health insurance.

Honestly, just get an agent. You only need them once to open the bank account. From then on its pretty easy. BTW, he will need a TM30 from the girlfriend if she owns the house.

@Maitin ******

I know

I go for a 90 day O visa. If you already have the money there is no need to use a visa company. I went there for advice in Udon. She advised me to do it myself as they only deal with people who don't have the money

@Graham *****

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@Clive ******

he is on a visa-exempt entry and I doubt Cambodia Visa can open a bank account for him because of his touristic entry

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

Trust me Greg they can and the bank account is free

@Clive ******

the owner of this group is a visa agency. They will only get a bank account opened for somebody on a touristic entry, if he buys the complete package - bank account, change to 90-days Non-O visa and 12-months extension. The price for this package starts at 55,000 THB. . . . I still highly doubt that Cambodia Visa does the same for free 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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

😂😂😂😂 i thought phuket was exspensive at 😂😂😂

@Clive ******

"was"? How long ago was your experience? The whole scenario changed by February 2025. You can't get a bank account opened any more since. And many agencies do not have the means or connections to bypass the new regulations. Even in Thailand, agencies and tea-money got limits

@Phil *****

they told me the same if no non o visa or bank account they cannot help , as did mannerat

@Ar ******

When did Maneerat say No ?

And what were you looking to get

New Non-O

Or

Just renewal of 12 mth extension?

@Ant **********

there are three of us travelling late September, between us we contacted over 9 different agents. Out of all these agents only two replied giving very detailed advice on what we could do . I won’t list all the agents but the replies we got from them were basic , no we cannot do anything for you , others said we should get non o visa and open bank account as they cannot do this anymore . These enquiries were made late July up until first week in august , I am not throwing shade on any agent as I believe things are really difficult for them at the moment. The two who replied with full details on what we should do with costings for their services were TVS visa service in Pattaya (Jay) the other was Thai visa centre based in bangkok ( Grace ) both these people replied to emails promptly . We were very impressed by detail and level of advice given by both . It seemed like these agents had dedicated people dealing with enquiries, some agents just replied with a one line to contact them on Line , despite us clearly saying we are in uk . Anyway I don’t want to ping pong replies and I was in no way downing any particular agent but it would be remiss not to mention the ones who were very good and gave full details to help us . I know visa services are going through horrendous changes at the moment.To be honest we didn’t actually want a retirement visa but we are aware the immigration are clamping down on people visiting and extending the stay going out and doing the same again as we did so we could stay 6 months . One of our party got stopped by immigration on their second visit to Thailand so after that scare we thought we should do something . We arrive at different times this September so each will chose which of the two agents depending on where they are going to stay and I’ll try feedback the results, who knows it might have changed again by the time we arrive .

@Ar ******

dates important as they are advertising again 5th August.

@Phil *****

I think they all have to keep advertising all services otherwise they won’t get any enquiries etc

@Ant **********

no previously they've pulled the ads so I do think its all good again

@Phil *****

I had conversations with them on July 9th

@Ant **********

back doing it again