Retirement extension: every year I try to make a perfect application but every year I am thwarted! Today I had all the documents on the current list. 10 is a Google map of your house with lat and long. No use printing it out and writing on it. No, you need to drop a pin on it to show the lat and long. Fortunately the copy shop near room 103 could do this. Print with north to the top of the paper. Also, the photos of you in front of your house showing the house number should be printed across the page, not full page. I think this is so everything can be understood without rotating any document 90 degrees.

When I picked up the document list a couple of days ago they gave me form 2, form 9 and 11 I think which are for acknowledging that you know the penalties for contravening the terms of your extension.

However, it was effecient and helpful; only an hour from entering the bank for letter and statement until departing Immigration. Collect passport at 4pm next day.

My local Immigration (Nakhon Pathom) refuses to issue me a Certificate of Residency on a DTV. For those who have been able to get one, can you please share which provincial immigration office was able to issue one, and what documents were needed? Thanks!

Arrived in January and planning on doing a 90 day report next month and wondering if I go there early enough could I also get a 180 day DTV extension? Are they even done at the same place? Hopefully its all within the same area where you get tourist visa extensions.

Dears,

How early can I renew my Thai retirement Visa. (I am getting different information!?). Thanks a lot very appreciated

Went to two different Immigration offices in Phuket this week hoping to get some information about renewing in-country. Neither of them had any idea about cost or requirements 🙃.

Edit: *big apology to the semantic sticklers*

I (obviously) meant "extension" not "renewal." Yes words have meanings. They also get jumbled around in my brain and probably shouldn't make you so frustrated.

Has anyone successfully changed the way they qualify for a retirement extension, from the money in the bank to monthly income, at the Jomtien office? And before anyone asks, yes I have maintained the proper amount in the bank for a year, as well as transferred in the 65,000 each month for a year.

ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS

IMMIGRATION HOLIDAYS DECEMBER & JANUARY

All immigration offices in the country will be closed the following days

Thursday - Dec 5th

Tuesday - Dec 10th

Monday - Dec 30th

Tuesday - Dec 31st

Wednesday - Jan 1st

That means at the end of December the last day you can go to immigrations this year will be Friday the 27th of December and the next day they will be open will be Thursday the 2nd of January 2025.

PLAN ACCORDINGLY

As always if your current stamp expires on a date the immigration office is closed (weekend or holidays) and you go the very next day they are open you can get your extension like normal, you will not be fined for the overstay, but you will get a stamp that says "overstay xxx days fine waived due to closure"

Also land entry points (borders) do not close on holidays 🙂

October holidays for immigration offices.

Please be aware that

Monday October 14th and

Wednesday October 23rd

are public holidays and all immigration offices will be closed.

Airports or land borders are not affected by these closures.

If you have a stamp that expires on one of these dates then either apply early for an extension or go the next open day. For the latter you’d get a small stamp in Thai saying “overstay, fine waived due to closure”.

Due to a planned power outage tomorrow 30th April Phuket Town immigration will be operating limited services. If you can avoid going tomorrow please do so.

Patong or Blue Tree offices are not affected.

I have a visa for 60 days. Can it be extended to 30 more days at all immigration offices in Thailand?