What are the current rules for maintaining the 800,000 baht balance after a retirement visa extension in Thailand?

This is a sad story about mis understanding the dates in the passport for the seasoning of the funds,

As you can see they applied for a yearly extension on March 2th 2021 and were given an extension until Jan 1 2022 <- the validity of their insurance plan.

Unfortunately they thought the funds needed to be in the account for 3 months AFTER Jan 1 <- which was totally WRONG. They pulled the funds on April 5th

in reality the funds needed to stay above the 800K baht threshold from March 2th <- the date the extension was granted until at least June 2th <- 3 months later.

THEN they could have went down to 400K baht the rest of the year.

Technically (meaning IF the immigration office wants to be that way) the O/P voided their extension by failing to meet the financial requirements they agreed to when they got it and has been on "over stay" since April 5th <- they day their balance on the funds went below 800K baht 😮

That's a 247 day overstay BUT that would only be brought up IF they went and tried to get an extension at the immigration office.

SO

their solution to this 'issue' is get a 60 day covid extension, (to buy them time from Jan 1 when their extension expires) 🙂

watch and see what countries open up nearby.

Bounce out to one and back in to thailand to get a 30 day visa exempt entry, then immediately go apply for an in country Non-O visa for 2000baht (it won't require insurance) and after the 90 days runs down apply for the year extension after that.

And on that note we're done. 😮

Thanx one and all for the suggestions. I think what I outlined is the easiest and most trouble free way to get OFF this train wreck of an O-A extension, get a new O visa (which won't require insurance) and then a year extension after that.

If you can get to a Canadian consulate/embassy you can get an affidavit of income from them so you don't need to put money in a Thai bank account. You just show them your T1 or statement of income form that you can get from the CRA website. Just did this a couple of weeks ago via the Chiang Mai consulate.

For my knowledge, for the one year extension of stay based on retirement, the rules are "Two months of 800K THB before the extension of stay is applied for, three months of 800K THB after the extension of stay is applied for, and at no times should the balance go below 400K THB".