Anonymous participant don't confuse visa validity and permission to stay. You can use your visa while it is still valid, once it expires it cannot be used. If you use your visa you will always get the same permission to stay entitled by that visa. Your permission to stay based on a visa does not disappear when your visa expires. Once you have been stamped with a permission to stay until date, it doesn't go away just because the visa expires.

When you are outside thailand visa validity is important as it determines whether you can enter Thailand.

When you are inside Thailand, only the permission to stay you get stamped in with is important.

@Len ****

you can get a Non-OA visa outside of Thailand, sometimes you can get a Non-O outside of Thailand. Inside Thailand you can only get a Non-O.

Krungsri Bank (yellow bank) ATMs will allow up to 30,000 per withdrawal. There will be a flat 220 baht fee for any withdrawal.

BUT please be aware that during the withdrawal, the ATM will ask you if you wish to use a different exchange rate, which is much worse (5% worse). So, be sure to decline this different exchange rate. Don't "Accept" this new conversion rate, but be sure to pick the "No, Continue without Conversion" option. By doing this you will get the MasterCard or Visa country exchange rate which is a much better rate.

No one could possibly prefer the new offered exchange rate. What is being offered is known generically as Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) and is never a good idea. How can you tell you are being offered DCC? If it mentions any amounts denominated in your home currency, then you are being offered DCC. Don't accept it.

@Kim **********

implementation of this requirement has been indefinitely postponed.

@Dora *****

wow, three months, or three weeks? I've not heard it taking any more than two months maximum.

@Stephan **********

Yes, this was a Phuket Immigration Office-specific policy to grandfather those having continuously held Non-OA visas and extensions from before the mandated insurance requirement came into effect.

Phuket Immigration had been an outlier, allowing those who held Non-OA visas or extensions from before the effective date of the change to continue under the old rules. That is, they were grandfathered from the then-new mandated insurance requirements. One of a few immigration offices to adopt that position. Sad if they have changed this long-standing policy.

If true, the guidance from Phuket Immigration Volunteers hasn't been updated yet:

What you are asking about is answered in detail here:

Online 90-Day Reports are accepted from 14 days before the due date up until the due date. At least that has been my experience in Phuket. After that, in-person applications are accepted up to 7 days after the due date (strictly including holidays, weekends, or other days the office may not be open). The drive-through in Phuket Town offers excellent service and you can also use the other satellite offices in Patong and Blue Tree.