@Pedro ******

no.

You need to apply for the 90 day non-O visa from your Thai embassy before you travel. This IS the retirement visa and it's the only time you'll have a visa, after that you'll just be applying for extensions. You would get a TM30 from wherever you're staying and then get a residence certificate from your immigration office. You would then use this to open a bank account. You have to get all of this done and your money transferred within a month of arriving.

You're apply for the initial 90 day non-O visa? Where are you applying? At a Thai embassy or in Thailand at immigration?

If you're applying at the embassy, you only need 3 months of proof of income for most embassies, and it can be from any bank, in Thailand or not.

If you're applying inside of Thailand, you cannot use income unless it's proof of income from your emabassy. The only options for an initial 90 day non-O visa is embassy certified income or proof of 800,000 in your Thai bank account. These are also the only 2 options for the first 1-year extension. Even if you can show 10 years of deposits, it will not be accepted for the initial visa or the first 1-year extension. You can only start using proof of international transfers for year 2. Any Thai bank can provide you that information, but the primary ones used by foreigners are Kasikorn, Bangkok Bank and SCB.

If they ask, it's cash only or you're gone. No bank statement, bank apps, credit or debit cards. Cold hard cash.

ED visa is only 90 days at a time. Every 3 months you'll have to go to immigration and apply for and pay for another extension. Maximum of 1 year. You'll also be unable to leave Thailand during this time as you have a high likelihood of being pulled out of line and interrogated about why you need a visa to study in Thailand when you're not staying in Thailand but leaving. Also you'll probably be pulled out of line upon entry for many years after your ED finishes, since it's the most abused visa type.

DTV is worry free 5 years in and out as much as you want, but you'll likely need to leave and return at least once every 6 months.

Most immigration offices will give you an "under consideration" stamp for DTV extensions. That means you must have at least 15 days left on your stamp. If you've waited until the last minute to apply for your extension then they might reject your application immediately based on that.

@Üsame *********

only a few specific visa types requires you to be a resident where you apply. Most visas you can apply from any country through the Thai embassy that processes that country.

ALL Thai visas are now applied for online through the e-visa system. They wouldn't even let you into the embassy if you went there.

The question is asking which Thai embassy will process your application. Some countries have more than 1 embassy/consulate, so it's asking which one you'll be applying at/to.

@Mike *******

most of the consulates in the US ask for 3 months of bank statements, but they actually only care that the final balance on the last statement meets the requirements.

1) the person applying for the visa must be outside of Thailand and in the jurisdiction of the embassy the application will be submitted to.

2) each embassy has different policies about this