@Wyn *********

If you enter Thailand by 22 February 2022 your visa will still be valid and you will get permission to stay for one year.

@Stuart ********

Krungsri Bank (Bank of Ayudhya, the yellow bank) allows 30K per ATM withdrawal.

@Katie ******

You can go anytime, but going sooner rather than later will not cost you anything as the extension will start when your current permission to stay ends. Generally, I advise going when about 30 days remaining in your current permission to stay. If you have the flexibility to pick the day of the week try to avoid Monday or Friday, or the days before or after a day the immigration office is closed as the office can be busier on these days.

@Scot ******

Quite a number of things. Bank letter for immigration. Bank statement for immigration. Tax withheld on interest earned statement for filing Thai personal income tax report. Closing an account. Rolling over a fixed deposit account into another account. Pretty much anything I do at the bank. If I am allowed to do it at another branch it's probably something I could do from an ATM, Passbook update machine, or Cash Deposit Machine. ;-)

Somethings can only be done at your home branch so branch should be where you live for your convenience.

In a TAT hotel instead of finding a chocolate mint on your pillow you wake up the next morning with a tasteful tattoo of a butterfly on your bicep.

Or it could be the OP is talking about SHA Plus hotels:

@Jean ***************

Not sure I understand 2). You could do 1) or 3). 1) is easiest but comes to an end that you can't change. 3) is not easy but you could stay much longer potentially if you can get an extension of stay based on something like retirement. On which basis do you want to stay in Thailand? 4) don't know.

@David *******

it's very variable. My particular tessabahn didn't require any translations that were notarized at my embassy or MFA and was able to use name translations that had already been done when I bought my condo (my name into Thai, and the names of my parents, too). Some, maybe most, might require those translations to be official, which can be a pain. Also, mine required two Thai witnesses who knew me and knew where I lived. They were deposed, questions/answers recorded, testimony signed. It was quite the production. 😉 Again, variable by office.

Don't know how much agents charge as did it myself for 0 baht. If it cost that much to get a yellow book I would have done without.

By the way, the financial requirements for a retirement extension can be met in a number of ways. By far the easiest is to have your embassy confirm that you are in receipt of a pension that pays excess of 65,000 baht/month. As you are a US citizen your embassy has decided not to do that for you. The second easiest is to transfer a lump sum in excess of 800,000 baht into a Thai bank. The money must be in Thailand to get a Non-O visa for retirement purposes in Thailand at the time you apply.

Every year, including your first, that you apply for a retirement extension you must have in excess of 800,000 baht in a Thai bank account for 2 months prior to applying for the retirement extension.

Thereafter, you must meet the following requirements for as long as you wish to stay in Thailand on a retirement extension:

800,000 baht in account 2 months before the application

800,000 baht in account 3 months after application

400,000 baht minimum balance required all year long.