@Marco ******

you got your wires crossed. You dont buy a multi re-entry at the airport when you enter. You buy the multi re-entry permit at the airport before you exit. Buying a multi re-entry permit for a 90-days stay permit out of a Non-Imm-O visa I can only regard as being pure nonsense

@Marco ******

you are talking about using consecutive 90-days Non-Imm-O Visa in a row. . . and there will come the end of it, some day a border official will pull you aside and start asking

@Mark *****

You can't get a Thai bank account opened any more on a touristic entry since February 2025.

Only a handful of agents offer help, if you buy the whole package (bank account, 90-days Non-O visa, 12-months Extension). It costs up from 60,000 THB using your own funds, and up to 90,000 THB if you have no own funds.

Without 800,000 THB sitting in an already existing Thai bank account in your name, you can't apply for the "change of visa type" from the touristic entry to the initial 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, and from there to the 1-year extension of the stay permit based on retirement.

So, entering on a tourist visa is a dead-end street, except if you are willing to pay the above mentioned money to an agent for the whole package.

You need to enter on a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa obtained abroad or in your home country, to be able to get a bank account opened and transfer the 800,000 THB, as soon as you have entered Thailand, so the money has seasoned in your account for 2 months on the day you apply on Immigration for the 1-year extension of the stay permit

@Steve ********

how long ago? You can't get a Thai bank account opened any more on a touristic entry since Februaray 2025. (only a handful of agent will help if you buy the whole package for 60,000 to 90,000 Thai Baht). Without 800,000 THB on an already existing THai bank account in your name, you can't get the "change of visa type" from the touristic entry to the initial 90-days Non-O visa, and from there to the 1-year extension of stay. So entering on a tourist visa is a dead-end street. You need to enter on a 90-days Non-O Visa, to be able to get a bank account opened and transfer the 800,000 THB, so they have been sitting in your account for 2 months before you can apply for the extension

@Steven ********

I am not a sad keyborad warrior, on the contrary I have my own visa advice group (in another language than English) and I help people every day and receive many thankssaying every other day. . . . What I noted here is that the guy has been very lucky for 28 years. . . . . Because showing an up-to-date freshly printed Kor Ror 22 or 2 marriage registry printout from the Amphur is a definite requirement since decades . . . a rose bordered marriage document from 28 years ago has zero stance - they could have been divorced a long time ago and he could theoretically still use it to get a 1-year extension for half the required financial proof than the retirement extension. It should be understood by everybody why Immigration is asking for an actual and updated document

@Marco ******

consecutive touristic visa do not guarantee entry. Like I said before: the embassy might issue whatever you apply and pay for, they take your money with a kiss. However what the border official will decide, it a different matter. You can be, and most probably will be denied if you use 90-days Non-O visa consecutively

@Marco ******

the embassy has absolutely NO say over what an Immigration officer at the border thinks or says, when he sees your stamp history on his Central computer screen. You can definitely be denied on a valid visa! Embassies use different rules than Immigration - they are under different ministries and don't communicate with each other

@Tom ******

the Kor Ror 22 or 2 up-to-date printout from the Amphur was always a requirement. If they were accepting your rose bordered Kor Ror 3 for 28 years, you have been incredibly lucky

@John ********

I had to draw up a plan, too. And two years later they asked me to pinpoint our house on google maps on the mobile phone of one of the Immigration officers. And the next year it was a hand drawn plan, again . . . . . . . . the sun shines and today I am in a light mood 😂 and who knows how my mood will be tomorrow

@Steven ********

I removed the wake up call. Each one on his own