@Mike ********

do it

@Mike ********

on a multi entry 6-months tourist visa, you don't need an agent for a border run. The service of such agencies you only need when you try to enter visa-exempt for asecond or third time

@Bob *********

I opened an SCB bank account in Hua Hin, and a few years later moved the branch from Hua Hin to the Isaan, by visiting the Isaan branch and showing them my new adress certification from Immigration. The Isaan bank from there on is my main branch. I do my yearly retirement extensions with the bank letter from the Isaan branch. This is a completely normal process, or it would not be possible to move and change one's adress within Thailand

@Bob *********

you can move your "main branch" from Bangkok to Chiang Mai by taking a certificate of residence to the CM bank and changing the adress

@Colin *********

my Immigration boss told me to get a yellow house book, so she doesn't have to issue any more certificates of residence for me. I successfully got a yellow house book, and from then on never needed another certificate of residence since

Jeff

@Jeff ************

The agent route is very complicated and very expensive. It consists of finding an agent who is willing to do the full process. There are a lot of steps which you will need to walk through. . . . You are better off by visiting a neighbour country and apply for the Non-O retirement visa through the E-Visa Online system while there. The agent route will let you get an Education Visa first, which means exiting and re-entering Thailand, then stay for 90 days and convert it to a Non-Imm-O based Extension of Stay later, after opening a bank account for you. Very expensive

@Doug *******

I got something like 500 pre-texted replies to all sorts of visa- and Thailand related questions in two different languages, on my harddisc, and I usually keep updating them. Only a few of my replies are new texts. That happens when a threadstarter is in a very individual and specific situation

@Doug *******

thanks I stand corrected and have changed the text

every Non-Thai arriving in Thailand needs to have the TDAC (Thailand Digital Arrival Card) filled out and submitted up from 72 hours prior to the arrival. WATCH OUT there are numerous scam-sites. The original TDAC is free of charge. The TDAC will send you an email with as QR code, print it or make a Screenshot of it

@Jeff ************

you need to have a Thai bank account in your sole name with a minimum of 800,000 THB sitting in it, to be able to "change of visa type" from a tourist visa to a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa. And you would need a rental contract. And a minimum of 15 days left on your tourist visa. These are the requirements, click onto number 9 on this listing of the Immigration website. If you don't have a Thai bank account yet, you can forget your plan. Go back to your home country or to any other country, apply for the 90-days single entry Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa in the E-Visa online system, enter on this visa, get a bank account opened and transfer 800,000 THB onto it. . here, check number 9 . . .