When should I apply for a visa extension for retirement after cancelling my work permit in Thailand?

@Tod ********

Every Immigration office has a printout of the rules applied in that office. Our OP here should get a copy.

This is a general list of what documentation an immigration office is likely to require to get a year extension based on retirement, it is NOT office specific, which is why I said go to your office and talk to them about it 🙂 and get the hand out listing the requirements at that office

@Richard ****

I still think you're way better off doing it all where the current extension was issued rather than cancelling the current employment extension and then going to C/W wanting to get a new year extension based on retirement.

So GO talk to your immigration office (where you live/got the extension/do 90 day reports) and see what they say about cancelling your current employment extension a couple weeks early then immediately applying for the year extension based on retirement

As Gary pointed out you will have to have the 800K baht funds seasoned in a thai bank account in your name only for 2 months before you apply for the yearly extension. You'll need the 'standard' bank letter, the 3 month printed detail transaction report (to show the 800k was in the whole 2 months before you apply). You have to update your bank book the date you apply for the extension along with providing them all the documentation that office typically requires for a year retirement extension