Kalasim immigration

Non O retirement Visa.

Help below if required.

Arrived in Thailand 5 days ago, under a Non O visa.

I’m from the UK.

Public holiday in Thailand, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Immigration reopened today Monday morning. I needed a TM30, and Certificate of Residency so I could open a bank account.

I got there at 8.50am, 10 minutes before it opened as I knew it would be busy. I live with my Thai girlfriend in our (hers) house, so difficult to do the TM30 online as not a business or hotel.

She came with me, I was one of the first in the queue all sorted in 20 minutes. The cost was 500 baht. Left with the TM30 stapled to my passport and my certificate of Residency in an envelope.

Could not have been easier, and lovely people.

I then went to get a new SIM card from the AIS shop, then opened a bank account with Kasikorn Bank.

All sorted in 4 hours 😀

Documents required.

TM30 & Certificate of Residency.

Passport

E visa printed copy

Passport size photo

My girlfriend’s ID card.

My girlfriend’s house book.

Cost 500 baht.

New sim for my phone.

( I have my own phone number as an e-sim)

Passport only.

Cost, sim 100 baht, and 300 baht a month for a good data plan.

Opening a bank account ( Kasikorn Bank)

Passport

Certificate of Residency

Phone with new Sim (so they can upload the app and open the account)

Usual bank questions, home address in uk, what you salary was, new phone number, ect.

Cost was 300 baht. ( but I gave 3000 baht cash to put in)

The whole process took 4 hours.

I know I was probably lucky with my timing.

And I know all provinces are different.

And I know it depends on the person.

All that worry for nothing.

Now I wait for 60 days for my funds to season, and apply for my extension.

I hope all who are trying find it as easy as I did.

Currently in Belgium I am applying for a Non Immigrant visa O. This one is only valid for 90 days, and single entry.

Where can I extend my visa to 1 year, and with Multiple Re-entry. Thank you in advance for responses.

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Ik vraag momenteel in België een Non Immigrant visum O aanvragen. Deze is slechts geldig voor 90 dagen, en single entry.

Waar kan ik mijn visum verlengen naar 1 jaar, en met een Multiple Re-entry. Alvast hartelijk dank voor reacties.

Hello folks, useful answers here, thanks to all who answered, Mods, Admins, Experts and general members with experience. My question is rather simple:

If I get "O" visa based on 800,000 THB in my Thai Bank account, keep that money intact year after year whenever next visa renewal is due, is that OK?

I have other sources of funds to live on.

Tod Daniel’s a massive thank you for all of your sage advice to me and others. So Tod has helped me from application for marriage visa, 12 month extension and re-entry permit processes. And so Monday was 12 month extension stamp day (had decided to leave re-entry permit - to book appointment, rather than long wait).

Wow what a different experience!!! Arrived car park 08:40. We got parked straight away with loads of slots (normally 15-20 minutes or no slots), into immigration ticket 20, up to counter 19 showing but changed immediately. 10 minutes later passport all stamped. My wife suggested we try re-entry permit (as it all seemed much quieter than previous visits) passport copied and 25 minutes later passport stamped and we left - 50 minutes for everything - wow just wow. Thanks to you, Tod and all your support I felt much more comfortable during this whole process. Really appreciate it.

Hi all,

A shock to the system combined with a degree of ignorance.

My initial 12 month Non - O extension of stay (based on being over 50) expires in the first week of July and I intended to apply for a further 12 month extension based on the monthly income method of 12 consecutive months of international transfers (minimum 65,000 baht each month).

The issue is as follows:-

My Kbank branch informed me that my monthly deposits have been transferred from my Australian Credit Union to the Bank of America in Bangkok and therefore the transfer from them to my Kasikorn Bank account is not deemed to be an international transfer. The statements refer them to be automatic transfers (I was aware of that but still thought they counted as an international transfer).

Has anyone had similar issues and is there a way around it. I am meeting with a visa agent here in Chiang Mai on Monday.

Regards!

Graham

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