Has anyone made the switch from dtv to retirement? Any advice? Pros? Cons?

I will be coming to Thailand in January on my non-O 90 day visa to subsequently apply for my spousal visa. After arrival, my plan is to quickly set up a bank account and immediately deposit more than 400k baht. I also plan to set up another bank account and begin immediately transferring more than 40k baht from the US every month. I thought that after the end of the 90 days and after approval of the one year spousal extension, I could then withdraw the 400k and continue the monthly transfers. I thought that before the end of the one year, I would have a record of more than 12 monthly transfers and all would be good. However, I was recently advised that I would still need the 400k in the first account to get the second year extension. Is that correct?

I have a non-O retirement visa. I'm going to immigration on December 18th to apply for my one-year extension. I'm also applying for a Multiple Re-entry visa. I'm probably going to Cambodia for a few days sometime in January 2026, and I'll definitely be returning to Belgium for about two months in June. What should I fill in on the TM 8 form? Thank you in advance for your positive responses.

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I am applying for my non-retirement visa in Hanoi Vietnam. I just have two questions:

Q1. when I come back into Thailand (hopefully achieving my Visa from the embassy in Hanoi) do I need to have a booked flight ticket back to the UK?

Q2. I am staying at studio flats in Hanoi, will this be accepted as my accommodation location for my online application?

Once again, any advice will be much appreciated.

No more questions now from me as I feel I have all the information I need to successfully move to Thailand to live. I just want to say thank you to everyone who has helped me.

THANK YOU EVERYONE

Can the first 90 day report be done by mail?

Hello everyone. My partner is British, he’s 73 years old. He’s entered Thailand on 15 November by Multiple tourist visa apply in Uk which will expire on 14 January. He would like to live in Thailand for 6 months.

Question!

Should he extend tourist visa on 10 January? So he can live 1 month and Then he fly to Singapore for 7 days on 14 February. He fly back to Thailand. So he can stay in Thailand 60 days?.

Or on 10 January he fly to Singapore and apply for non o visa then fly back to Thailand so he can stay 90 days?.

He booked the flight back to uk on 15 May 2026.

He got 2 strokes which is difficult for him to walk.

Many thanks.

Is there an approximate approval time for Non O Marriage Visa Extension?

Hi Everyone,

I’m in the process of applying for my first Non O Marriage Visa extension

I took all the documents with my wife on Nov 27th to Phuket Town Immigration and they were accepted and I got a stamp to Jan 22nd 2026 in my passport.

The IO came to our house on Nov 29th and his colleague took photos of us in and around our house.

I was wondering if there was an approximate rough time for how long approval takes once it’s under processing?

Thanks in advance 🙏

Has anyone submitted multiple bank accounts to add up to 500 K? I could transfer it around, but a bit complicated just wondering if anyone showed multiple accounts

Hopefully a simple question, for a Non O retirement renewal if I used the 65k per month option can it it be in more than one transfer per month? I have sources of income that exceed the 65k in total but not individually and the individual components may vary from month to month, if ever there was a short month I could make a transfer from savings to meet any shortfall, thanks