for the application to the "change of visa type" from a touristic entry to a 90-days Non-Imm-O retirement visa on Immigration inside Thailand, you need an already existing Thai bank account with a minimum of 800,000 THB in it on the day you apply. No seasoning required at this point. However you must prove the money came from abroad

*** Immigration Pattaya (Jomtien) does NOT follow this police order but come up with their own – different! – rules

*** for an application to a 1-year extension of the stay permit out of a 90-days stay permit you received when you entered Thailand on a 90-days single-entry Non-Imm-O retirement visa, you need to prove with a bank letter that a minimum of 800,000 THB has been on your Thai bank account for a minimum of 2 months. For this application it is irrelevant where the money came from

@Kate ********

once you have been issued the "1-year extension of the stay permit based on retirement", you can buy a single (1000 THB) or multiple (3800 THB) re-entry permit for this extended stay permit. You need to calculate. If you plan less than 3 exits from Thailand during the 1-year period, it is cheaper to buy in single re-entry excrements

renting a condo apartment doesn't cut any ice visa-wise. In case you are not yet 50 years old (so unable to secure a 1-year "retirement extension" or a LTR visa) your visa options are limited. You culd try to get the DTV visa, with which you will get stamped in for 180 days upon each entry, that within a visa validity period of 5 years

@Steve *********

showing the last TWO months is the requirement, not 3 months

@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