You will need to cancel your extension and then apply immediately for the "retirement" extension.

Your wife will "should" also be able to retain her dependant status and not need banking funds herself.

Check with your local office, before making any moves.

In theory this should be a relativley easy transition.

@Dexx ****

it's not lying, you don't own it, someone owns the land and that's who the lease comes from, it doesn't matter who built it.

There are two apps.

Yeah makes no sense.

Try the other version and it will work, just did it recently.

@Stuart ********

100 per cent correct.

@Graham *****

I witnessed it myself at Krungsri.

@คาร์ลิโต้ *******

it's happening at the other banks too, just not as many yet.

@Jeff ************

what's your point? You don't qualify without an account so you have to get it outside and then get an account. That's a banking issue NOT an immigration.

@Jeff ************

you absolutely can change. As long as you qualify on all counts.If you do not have a bank account, you don't qualify. If you do not have enough time left on your stamp usually around 15 -21 days. There are reasons that they tell you to leave and do it out of country. But your experience, possibly lost in translation, or too much info at once.

Anonymous participant purchasing a course does not mean you have to attend as it is a leisure activities.Like a gym membership you never use.There is no attendance or accountability to it. Other visas like an education ED, REQUIRE attendance and even then are only loosely monitored.

@Stuart ********

Confucius say: "There is no why... just do"