@John *********

Difficult if you plane to live permanently, but if you stay for periods and want to maintain your permission to stay you could manage with your bank at home and credit cards in Thailand and transfer smaller amounts to a Thai bank.

You could drop 800K permanently in your Thai bank. Then you’ll don’t need to transfer any money to Thailand to maintain an extension of stay based on a Non O visa. Or else there’s no legal way around proving that you have funds in Thailand if you want to maintain a permission to stay.

You could download this app and apply for an appointment at the DLT that serves your area.

Yes, you just count 60 days from your last entry date stamp. That’s what visa exemption really is; -not a visa just a free stamp.

Everyone gets stamped in, but you might leave electronically without any physical stamp.

@Scott *****

I understand, the application do request a ticket or date, but it’s sufficient to just put a date and a flight you might use. For Non O visa you normally don’t need to upload any tickets and you have 90 days to enter from the day the visa it’s issued and you’ll get stamped in for 90 days. Just did this recently myself.

Anser to question one is no and you didn’t really have to book any ticket for the application.

It’s always recommended to stay and wait for your visa, but option two is used by several people as backup in situations like this. The main thing is that you fulfilled the requirements when you applied, applied from your current location and can prove that you also left from this location/country.

The only difference is the paper itself.

When you apply for a tourist visa you prove who you are, where you are, that you have a ticket and want to go to Thailand for a 60 days stay based on tourism.

When you enter on a 60 days visa exemption you also prove who you are, where you came from, that you had a ticket and now want to get stamped in for a 60 days stay based on tourism.

Besides this all requirements are the same.

@Nenz ********

Who said this. People from the Philippines with Philippine passport are entitled to a 60 days visa exemption after the new Scheme introduced in July last year.

If you hold a Philippine passport

@Nenz ********

(ref your previous comments here), you’re entitled to a 60 days visa exemption and free stamp upon arrival and you’ll be fine with your 60 days return/onward ticket.

This is for you address registration TM.30, but PIBICS is a registration to check if you’re previously blacklisted from Thailand.