What should I do after being denied my OA visa extension due to insufficient proof of pension or income?

AND I will now Close Comments until other Moderators may choose to offer advice and reply... thank you for your helpful replies.

I removed another TWO member's Comments about the subject we do NOT allow on the forum.

This forum is about How to Do it Yourself in obtaining the correct Thai Visa for yourself.

If you decide to use the 800,000 baht deposit method then the money needs to have been in the account 2 months before you apply for the yearly extension. Unless you’ve had the 800,000 baht there already you will not be able to meet the 2 month requirement. If you do have to leave and return then the O visa at least doesn’t have the insurance requirement.

I have placed the TOPIC of converting the OA based retirement extension to the Non O based retirement on your Post.

Along with other related topics.

CLICK on it and all posts about it will pop up to read the experience of others...

To obtain the Non O inside Thailand will require you to do a simple land border bounce out and re-enter Thailand before December 17th...

You will be stamped in for 45 days plus one 30 day extension of stay is available at Thai immigration office for 1900 Thai baht.

During the first days of entry, transfer internationally 800,000 Thai baht into a Thai bank account in your name only.

Suggest you visit your local Thai immigration office and ask them for their list of requirements for the Non O Visa as retiree and the One year extension of stay as retired.

NO health insurance is required for the Non O Visa as retiree or its one year extension of stay as retired.

You haven't said if you transfer baht into your Thai bank account each month? Can you confirm you do this, so you get the correct advice?

The US Embassy does not provide an affidavit of income.

Thai Immigration made the solution to this problem to let you show OR

12 months prior application each and every month a minimum foreign deposit of 65.000 Thb into your Thai bank account

OR

2 months prior application 800.000 thb on a Thai bank account.

As you did not have one of these 2 ways to proof of income, an appeal against their decision to refuse a brokerage account is useless and just a waste of time.

You may draw on your brokerage account but immigration won't care about that. What they want to see is an absolute minimum of 65k baht transferred into a Thai bank account each and every month for the previous 12 months, and of course as you are on an OA visa also 12 months valid insurance

For the info of the member whose comment I have just removed... We do not allow any discussion of Thai Visa Agents on this forum.

The financial requirements for an extension are the same whether you have an O or OA visa.

Is this your first One year extension of stay using the OA based retirement Visa?

Or have you been obtaining the One year extension of stay in recent years?

Do you have the REQUIRED health insurance for the OA based one year extension of stay?

Have you been transferring internationally 65,000 Thai baht monthly for the previous 12 months into your Thai bank account in your name only?

That's what is important in obtaining the one year extension of stay if you don't have the 800,000 Thai baht on deposit in a Thai bank account in your name only. With its being transferred internationally.

The brokerage account in the USA can get you qualified for the OA visa in the first year... But not in added years.

Are you Married to a Thai?