@Paul *******

I stopped by recently. Their wait is about a month.

@Graham *****

my apologies. You did say “yes, if your passport allows you to enter visa exempt”. It just got lost in all the other. My bad.

@Graham *****

I’m not worried about whether I can enter. I just left. I’m worried about entering with a pending non-O visa.

As you know from my comment on the other post, for some reason, I had not seen the non-O retirement option on my embassy’s website back when I had looked a month ago. As such, I had not included my application in my planning for my travel back to the States. I’m heading there now, but I will only be there for less than two weeks. With the New Year in the middle, I’m worried the non-O will not be processed before my flight back to Thailand. My flight is already booked. I wanted to make sure that I could still enter.

I am not concerned about my number of entries. I just wanted to be sure the pending visa would not prevent my entry. I also assume that all I need to do to then make the visa effective is leave and re-enter the country.

@Tore *****************

as I said…

It’s crazy. Everyone is saying, “just pay an agent a ‘few’ baht’”. They’re not asking for a “few”.

@Graham *****

that link isn’t working for me

@Tore *****************

you can go to any agent in the sane building as Duke Language School (I happened to have been there to talk to them about classes). The agents were quoting around 25K. Another agent on the side street where the entrance to Emporium is located quoted 15K plus buying insurance.

@Stuart ********

thank you

@Andy *********

sure. If it comes to that. Thx

@Graham *****

never mind. I found it. I swear…I looked many times and couldn’t find it…very odd.

@Andy *********

yeah, I have a name a friend gave me for an agent in Hua Hin and tried to call them to do just that. They never called back. I haven’t tried Pattaya, although they seem to be bursting at the seams with agents. I’ve wanted to visit anyway, so I may do that. If I can’t workout a non-O when I have my short visit back to the States, I will do that.