The non-O is the 90-day retirement visa that most people use to get started. Very very light requirements outside of the financial ones.

The non-OA is a 1-year multiple entry retirement visa that can ONLY be obtained in your home country. It has much higher requirements including mandatory insurance, criminal records check, health check and whatever else your embassy wants to add. If you start on this visa, you'll have to keep the insurance forever.

You cannot get a non-O visa and then apply for the non-OA, and especially not while you're already in Thailand.

You need to apply for the non-O visa from your Thai embassy using the e-visa system before you leave for Thailand. This visa will allow you to open the required bank account. If you're going to be arriving in Thailand next month, you can apply for the visa already since you can use it to enter Thailand for 90 days and you're already in that window.



Once you arrive in Thailand you will want to open a bank account ASAP using your visa and possibly you'll need a certificate of residence (COR) from immigration. You'll have less than a month to get your bank account opened and the money transferred, as it needs to be in your account for 2 full months already when you apply for your 1-year extension. Since you'll only have 90 days to get this all done, you can see how tight the timeline is.

The non-o IS the retirement visa. Get it from your Thai embassy before you leave the UK. Then when you arrive in Thailand, get your bank account opened ASAP because you need to transfer your 800,000 baht in there so that it has enough time to sit for 2 full months before you apply for your extension. That means you only have a couple of weeks to get it done if you want to apply before the last possible minute.

@Bob ********

he did not ask for what agency to use, he asked how to know which agency to use. So I answered the question as asked.

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The workcation category is much less straightforward than soft power, but how difficult it is will be completely dependent upon your Thai embassy. They each set their own requirements.

Your visa type has nothing to do with bringing an animal to Thailand. Anyone can do that as long as they meet the requirements.

You can only apply for a multiple entry tourist visa in your home country or a country you have permanent residence in. So unless you are going back home, you won't be able to apply for a METV.

Also, it's a tourist visa. Immigration does not look kindly on people trying to stay long-term in Thailand without a long-term visa. There have been multiple reports of people with a METV getting grilled at immigration after leaving and returning immediately to get a new stamp, especially after doing it a second time.

If you applied for a tourist visa and it asked for a ton of stuff, then that means you applied for the multiple entry tourist visa, which you did not need for an 89 day stay. You could have applied for the single entry tourist visa, which barely has any requirements at all. But you don't need any visa, you can get a 60 day visa exempt entry, and apply for a 30-day extension, the exact same as a tourist visa.

TDAC has nothing to do with visas or your stay in Thailand. It's just an entry card required by everyone entering Thailand.

@David ******

They'll just use an agent again, no problems

The date on the visa is when you must enter Thailand by. When you enter, you'll receive a 90-day entry stamp

@Mark ***

I'm surprised True Digital Park doesn't have better English staff. That's not exactly a rare place for foreigners to spend time.