@Ian *********

No time to read but you still had time to post a useless comment

You can apply for a 90 day non-O visa if you meet the requirements of your immigration office. Go there and ask them for the list. Hopefully you already have a Thai bank account since financial proof is one of the requirements. Primarily 800,000 in your Thai bank account that shows as an international transfer and has been in the account for 2 full months. The visa will have zero entries, but you can apply for a re-entry permit, single or multiple. This does make it a multiple entry visa though.

The consulates in Malaysia are known for requesting documents 2-3 times for the same thing you've already sent. You should have done better research before applying from Malaysia. It's known that you'll have to respond to MANY requests and it will likely take over a month.

TDAC is not a visa. It's just an arrival card. More than half of the fields are not even required and you can leave them blank. You can only submit TDAC within 3 days of arrival. Here's the official link:



If for some reason you still cannot do it, you can try this agent website for TDAC. It's also free if done within 3 days of arrival, but fixes some of the UI problems.

Countries do not set limits on how much money you can carry. They just require you to declare the money as you leave and some countries require you to declare it when you enter, depending on how much you are carrying.

Just to clarify, the non-O visa IS the retirement visa.

You can't do anything to speed up the process. You should have done your research before applying. Malaysia is one of the WORST places to apply for DTV. Multiple requests for information, often for the same information 2-3 times. Over a month is not unusual. And could still result in rejection.

You don't have any visa at all right now, so you cannot get "another visa."

You can go to your local immigration office and apply for a 30-day extension one time. Or if you want you can leave Thailand and return to get a new 60-day visa exempt stamp. Some Laos borders require you to stay in Laos 1-2 nights if you're trying to enter Thailand without a visa.

@Kelly *******

all wrong. You can't apply for an extension of DTV since you didn't enter on it. And the DTV extensions costing 10,000 was only a rumor and we know now it's the normal 1900 baht for an extension. But most immigration offices make it impossible to apply for DTV extensions so you're better off just leaving and returning every 6 months

@Kristina ****************

you can apply in Thailand. But one of the requirements to apply is showing you have 800,000 baht in your Thai bank account. You cannot open a bank account as a tourist.