@Tod ********

could you please clarify this "the initial Non-O and the first year extension need to be gotten with banked money method which necessitates transferring in to a thai bank account in your name only the 800K baht, having it in the account 2 months before you apply for the year extension". How does banked money affect applying for the initial non-O? It's not explained. Thanks

You're not "forced to overstay" because your partner doesn't have his passport. If you want to keep your passport clean of overstay problems, you could travel to somewhere like Penang and wait for him there.

Perhaps your question should be, is there an annual limit to the number of tourist visas that can be applied for

@George ********

sounds like this method can only be used if planned well in advance

@Tod ********

good points. But then keeping 800k in a Thai bank account (or 400k for most of the year) with no interest instead of keeping it in bonds overseas paying 4.75% interest costs tens of thousands of baht in lost interest, making the health insurance effectively free for someone aged under 70 IMO

@Ellie ******

utilising online 90 day reporting presumably

I think it would be fair to add to Tod's comment that it's not only the moderating team members that are here to provide accurate timely and concise info, as this infers that all other group members are incapable of doing that, when clearly many are.

@Benjamin *****

if he's leaving in 60 days time there was no favour. And making a false declaration on an affidavit isn't great.

@Tod ********

my guess is it means you need an outbound ticket to apply, the flight date of which will be recorded e.g.15 January, and that's the date the extension will be given up until with strictly no more extensions.

@Jiachi ******

presumably the IO keep a record of outbound tickets on applications. If someone were to then change their outbound ticket to apply for another covid extension, that would effectively be fraud