What are the requirements and steps for applying for a Retirement Visa in Thailand?

@Chr****

it works in Phuket if you have met the criteria I outlined in my earlier post.

I'm in phuket.... so doubt it will be here... just got happy.. sorry.. immigration isn't my favourite place.. 😂

@Tod ********

... thanks, Tod! 👍🏼

@T**

as long as you've done one 90 day report in person and use the program from 15 days before down until 7 days BEFORE your actual 90 day due date you shouldn't have a problem with it working.

@Tod ********

... Bangkok

@Chr****

why don't you say where you are in thailand?

Some immigration offices are not participating in the 90 day online program.

In order to use the 90 day online system, you must have done one 90 day report in person, You can only apply online from 15 days before down until 7 days BEFORE your actual 90 day report due date.

Can you do 90 day check-in without going to immigration.??

@Christopher **********

... thank you! 👍🏼

(y) that is the 90 day stamp you got when you got the Non-O issued inside the country

@Жанна ***********

that is correct. If you don't have the mutable entry up to date they cancel the retirement visa start all over again like I had to just last week

@Tod ********

.. thanks . great info.

@Gunmetal ******

You are confusing two separate things which are both called "retirement visas"

A Non-Immigrant Type O-A visa is sold at thai consulates in the country your passport comes from. You get it before you come here, it requires a police background check and a medical certificate but you can meet the financial requirements by using money in the bank in your country. It is sold as a multi-entry and every time you enter the country you get stamped in for a new year until the visa expires

What Жанна had was a 90 day Non-O visa and now a yearly extension of stay from the immigration office INSIDE the country.

Once you have one yearly extension, every year you just apply for a new year extension you don't need to get another Non-O

@Tod ********

we are just arrived from Australia on a “retirement”visa and did not get this piece of paper in our passport. We are aware of the 90 day reporting though. Wonder why we didn’t get the notification!

sorry i didn't mean 90 day check in... What i was asking was can you keep applying for extension each time they year is up, or do you have to get the non-imm O (90 day stay visa) again, and then apply for extension.

@Жа***

you DO need to make re-entry permit IF you're going to leave the country.

so this is not an "O-A" Retirement visa? But rather non-O, with 1 yr extended stay. And can you keep extending year over year or do you have to do the Non-O 90 process again.

@Gunmetal ******

Once you get your yearly extension if you want to you BUY a re-entry permit. A single re-entry permit is 1000baht and lets you leave and come back once, a multiple re-entry permit is 3800 baht and lets you leave and come back as much as you want for that year.

@Gunm****

extensions expire on the date they say they're good to. If you have a re-entry permit (either a single or a multiple entry one) they are good until the extension expires.

In this case every time the O/P comes back they'd be stamped in until the 13th of May 2019.

Then you apply for a NEW yearly extension for 1900baht. You do that every year

@Жанна ***********

(y) once you do one 90 day report in person you will be able to use the online reporting system after that (:)

1. so if you leave and renter say... on April 20, 2019, then you can only stay until May 13, 2019 ? or do you get another year added ? (2) And each time you exit, do you need to get reentry permit ? 1900 baht ..

@Жа***

a TM.47 is your 90 day report form, You should have that little paper of the image i posted showing when your first 90 day report is due.

Is it in your passport?

@Gunmetal ******

That date is the date his original Non-O visa expired and all they do is add a year to it. They don't just give a year from the date you apply.

@Жа***

they should have put a paper in your passport like this that tells you when your first 90 day report is due.

How come it says .. "13 May 2019" .. should it not be like "1 May 2019" for 1 year ?

1. would you get a new 1 year upon rentery ?