@Roberto *********

, where do I refer to agents? You are making up stories. Too bad about your Immigration office. Maybe try to go BKK. What I am telling you is from a friend doing exactly this very recently. There are several ways to get started. You might get an OA in your home country. You might get an O in your home country. Or you might go on a visa except and get the base O at Immigration. Actually, the last option has the least requirements. OA and O have become more the same in regard to requirements over the past few years, probably at least partly because of Covid. But to go from OA to O you will have to leave the country. There are truly a lot of details in this. I have never been using an agent and will never ever recommend anyone to do so. Pls stop your stories.

@Roberto *********

, but you are wrong. What I am saying has been done in real life. I guess you don't understand how this work at all or mixing things completely. We could discuss new subjects like the requirements for getting O and OA in your home country. To some extent, those criteria are not that different as before. Still a very different approach.

@Steve *******

, did we talk about going the 800k deposit way? No. Getting an OA in your home country, and then leaving Thailand to change it into an O is not needed. But please keep having your own fun with it.

@Steve *******

, please stop. I have understood already, that you have different ideas. Your approach seems cumbersome. If making life cumbersome makes you laugh, then please keep laughing. OVER AND OUT.

@Steve *******

, then laugh. The OA visa has additional requirements. It has advantages to going for the O visa. The 800k deposit is also an option if you prefer this way.

@Bobby *******

, not true. But leave it if you believe so. Ppl are doing it in real life. Maybe some Immigration won't do it. This is Thailand.

@Steve *******

, the OA is a very different kind of visa with additional requirements. I know ppl doing it recently. They didn't laugh at all.

@Bobby *******

, but the other scheme is possible at Immigration. It was discussed many years ago - and changed.

@Bobby *******

, if you were right, then the monthly money transfer scheme will in reality not be possible the first time. How to stay for the first 1 year in Thailand? Then you must get an OA at Embassy as the only way based on monthly income, which is a very different story.

@Bobby *******

, not the first time. But otherwise yes. It is the same with a marriage visa. If it was 12 months for the first time, then impossible to do a single entry Non-0 to be extended for 1 year. That is the reason.