You get 60 days visa exemption by both land and air, so you can just come and get 60 days without any visa and do a land border crossing in order to get additional 60 days.

It’s also possible to apply for a 30 days extension at your local immigration, so if you want to stay for 60 or 90 days before you do a border bounce it’s up to you.

@Steven ****

But they have corrected the still incorrect information on their website.😉

@Steven ****

The point was the restriction of twice in a calendar year.

@Dave ********

This is still stated on the Thai embassy of Londons website and it’s still not accurate information. The restrictions was twice in a year by land borders, but feedbacks indicates that even this restriction now is repealed.

An agent charge normally 4-5 000 baht and are able to open without any insurance if you have minimum 15 days left on your stamp.

You’ve already got the correct advice. It’s only one extension available per entry (unless you’re married Thai or have a Thai child), so you’ll have to leave and re-enter on a new 60 days visa exemption.

Take a flight or use a land border company to bounce you.

@Lester ********

regular Non O and Non O-A you find here;

This is not a regular retirement visa, but a Long Term Resident visa with quite stiff requirements to qualify and you’ll need an approval from the Board of Investment first.

And you need to provide required documentation to get an approval letter that you qualify and the Thai embassy who serves you will issue the visa.

If you’re a citizen of the country you apply in, you just need to upload a copy of the id-page in your passport, letter from your bank, utility bill etc to prove your current location as other e-visas. But if you apply for a Non O-A, Non O-X or a METV in another country you’ll need to provide additional documentation also for permanent residence at date in the actual country.

@Vin ********

I don’t think you understand. The Non O-A visa can only be applied for at your permanent residence and the one year Non O-A is a visa that’s valid for one year. Every time you get stamped in within the validity of the one year visa you get one year stay. So if you enter short time before it expires you still get stamped in for one year if you update your health insurance. This is how you can get two years of a one year visa.

The first year you have a multiple entries visa. The second year you only have a stamp or permission to stay and you’ll need to buy re-entry permits if you want to leave and re-enter.

After two years the Non O-A visa is history. It cannot be renewed but you can apply for a new one at the embassy of your permanent residence.

If you anyway want to continue your stay in Thailand after two years, you can apply for a one year extension of stay at the immigration in Thailand. This is not a visa, but a permission to continuous stay for one year.

The requirements are almost the same as for the Non O-A visa, you’ll need to maintain a health insurance but you also need to deposit 800K baht in a Thai bank account two months prior to the application.

This you can repeat every year and for the extension of stay you’ll need to buy single or multiple re-entry permits to maintain your stamp or permission to stay.

If this goes against everything then everything is wrong or you have some wires crossed regarding what a visa and an extension of stay really is.