@Mike *****

Probably not. They are more concerned with people who come in for 60 days, get 30 day extension, then leave and return.

If you obtain a 90-day non-O visa based on retirement, you can only apply for the 1-year extension based on the same reason the visa was issued, so it would have to be a retirement extension. The following year you could apply for the extension based on marriage instead of retirement though.

And if you receive or enter with a 90 day non-O visa in January, your permission to stay stamp will run until some time in April. That means if you wanted to keep that and apply for the extension, you would need to be back before that time ran out to apply for the extension. May obviously wouldn't work, and April would only work if you're back early enough depending on when your permission to stay started.

You would also need to purchase a re-entry permit before leaving so your stamp isn't cancelled by leaving.

Once you receive a retirement extension, your bank account must remain at 800,000 for 3 months after you receive the extension and cannot drop below 400,000 after that. It must be back at 800,000 for 2 full months already at the time you apply for the next year's extension.

Officially it's 2 months at the time you apply for your extension.

That's something you need to ask your company, not Facebook. You can only convert to non-B in Thailand if your company supports it, and most don't. It requires a truly massive amount of paperwork and many companies cannot provide that level of paperwork or they simply won't do it because it's so easy to get from the Thai embassy.

No, not required for non-immigrant status. It's only tourists that have entry requirements.

@Jeremy *******

that will not CAUSE the account to be frozen, simply because the visa expired. But they can freeze it for KYC again in the future any time they want. They've already proven that. Hundreds of stories of people who brought everything into the bank to get their account unfrozen only for it to be frozen again

@Mauro ********

because it's not that easy. Some immigration offices won't do it. And some immigration officers will not accept that to let you into Thailand. The only guaranteed way is to keep both passports.

The immigration officer cannot see anything you put on the TDAC, they can only see that you did or did not fill out a TDAC. And how would they know an address you put is an AirBNB or not even if they could see it?? They do not have every address in Thailand memorized.

@Julien ***

Don't bother trying to apply for an extension. Immigration wants nothing to do with DTV. They make the extensions nearly impossible to get. For example in Chiang Mai you must show 500,000 baht in a THAI bank account for the extension. Yes, immigration knows you cannot open a Thai bank account with a DTV visa.