@Jim ******

3-months prior was the old rule. It used to be 2 months prior only for the FIRST application to the extension, and from then on always 3 months prior. . . . . . This rule got discontinued by January 2019, in favour of 2 months prior, regardless if a first extension or a follow-up one

@Robert ****

😂😂😂😂😂 since 17 years, I manage to get my yearly Extension, a 90-days report and the purchase of a single re-entry permit, all & everything, done on my Immigration within 20-25 (twenty!!) minutes. I don't even need to fill out any forms, the Immigration officer does it in my place. Wonder over wonder! 😂😂😂😂😂

@Robert ****

😂 😎 not for the complete first time package! (bank account, 90-days Visa and 12-months extension). You pay 14,000 for the yearly repeated extension . . . . . If you have arrived on a tourist visa, there is only one agent in Bangkok who will circumvent the rules, they service you only if you buy the complete package, it costs 60,000 THB (and you need to have own funds, without own funds it is something like 75,000 THB)

currency in or out of Thailand

@Nidtha *****

completely wrong, nonsense

@Gary *******

he has

@Sue *********

they can refuse, but why would they? If you meet incompetent and unwilling bank staff that are unable to open a bank account for you on a Non-Imm-visa type, buy an agent's service

@Robert ****

agreed, you are right. I would always recommend to get the 90-days Non-Imm-O visa issued before flying to Thailand. Regarding the 800,000 THB deposit, there is no other way for the first year extension for citizens from UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Norway, because their embassies don't issue income affidavits anymore. If you are content to throw away 32,000 THB to an agent to bribe Immigration, feel free to do it. However I hope you are aware that it got more difficult since February 2025. Have you noticed all the frozen Bangkok Bank accounts that agents opened on people's tourist visas? While I don't think the corruption can be rooted out, I am witnessing a price hike for these "faked" extensions. Soon they will match up with the interest you claim to be able to acrue if you keep 800,000 THB in your home country

@Donald *********

this receiving fee for a foreign remittance normally is around 400 THB fixed fee. If you use WISE, the transfer is an inner-Thailand transfer and there will be no receiving fee

@Robert ****

you are WRONG (unless you quote these "special rules" which Jomtien Immigration has pulled out of their corrupt noses ) . . . According to the police order the rule is: Yes, you need an already existing Thai bank account to apply for the "change of visa type" from a touristic entry to a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, however the 800,000 THB just have to sit in it on the day you apply, there is NO seasoning requirement at this point. Only when you apply from the 90-days to the "1-year Extension of Temporary Stay Permit based on Retirement", the money needs to have seasoned for TWO MONTHS (not for 3 months!). After been issued the Extension, the 800,000 THB have to remain for 3 more months. In the rest of the year the deposit may not fall below 400,000 THB, and then again for the application to the next "1-year Extension", the money needs to be in the account for 2 months