When do you need to show 800,000 THB in a bank account for an OA visa in Thailand?

@Jinren ******

, lol, not that it's important really but I believe the O stands for Other and the A maybe stands for Approved. It's usually just referred to as a Non-OA which is short for Non-Immigrant Visa Type OA.

It's sometimes referred to as a "long stay" visa as it gets you one-year permission to stay whenever you enter Thailand during its period of validity (until it expires). So in pre-covid times when it was relatively easy to leave and re-enter Thailand you could leave and re-enter Thailand a few days just before the Non-OA visa expired and get another year's permission to stay.

So, in effect, by timing your leaving and entering Thailand correctly you could get almost 2 full years of permission to stay from a single Non-OA visa. Nowadays because leaving and entering is difficult most people if they are not willing to leave and reenter will only get a single year's permission to stay on a Non-OA visa.

In any case, at the end of a year of permission to stay, you could apply for an extension of stay for the purpose of retirement at your local Thai Immigration office, and meeting all the requirements for that extension you could get another year of permission to stay.

Many people use this visa option to stay long term in Thailand because you don’t need funds in a Thai bank to do so. Pre Covid it was generally a two year visa, given that you could “bounce” out of the country and come back in just before it expired for another year. Now that is not a viable option. To extend it for a years extension of stay you need to meet the financial requirements of 800k in a bank account in your name only two months prior to applying. The amount needs to stay over that three months after applying and not go below 400k for the rest of the year. When applying for the next years extension the balance needs to be back up to 800 two months before.