@Bob *********

the multi entry Non-Imm-O/A visa is not a "retirement visa". It is officially called "Longstay Visa". And I strongly doubt that the threadstarter has an O/A visa. He rather is already on a "1-year Extension of Stay based on retirement" for which he bought a multi re-entry permit. Wrong wording in these groups is omnipresent

"I have a retirement multiple entry visa" . . . . . .there is nothing such. . . you do not have any kind of "visa" anymore . . . . . . you have an individual stamp that says you got a 1-year stay permit (based on being over 50/ retired). For this stay permit you bought a re-entry permit, which is a second individual stamp . . something like this:

@Damien ****

when leaving, you will probably not be stamped out when you leave through the automatic gates . . . . . . And when you return, just make sure - on the spot! - the Immigration officer stamps you in correctly until the expiry date you received when you first entered on the 90-days Non-Imm-O Visa. As this is the furthest date your re-entry permit allows you to get stamped back in

apply for your 12-months extension as soon as possible, do not wait. If Immigration want one or more documents on top, you need time to collect them. You don't lose any single day of the new extension when you go earlier

@Russell *******

it depends on the Immigration. Most allow the application up from 30 days left on the admitted stay stamp. Some - like Bangkok and Chiang Mai - allow it from 45 days up

@Michael *******

for a legalization with the embassy, you need an appointment, which can mean a more than 4 weeks wait. It is easier to get the income affidavit with consul Hofer in Pattaya on short notice and sometimes even as a walk-in

@Michael *******

Your information is wrong. The German embassy and the honorary consul in Pattaya, A. Hofer, are still issuing official income affidavits of your income or your pension ("beglaubigte Einkommens-Bescheinigungen") for presenting to Immigration. It could probably mean that Immigration will NOT allow you to do the financial proof with the 12-months bank statements of transfers from abroad

@Evan *********

is exactly what I advised. A 5-night booking with booking com or Agoda can be cancelled free of charge as soon as you have uploaded the booking receipt into the visa application. Nobody will come back to check this

@Michael *******

I cannot say if your Immigration will accept a bank statement over monthly transfers from abroad of a minimum of 65,000 THB, month for month. Because normally only citizens of countries whose embassies in Bangkok do not issue "income affidavits" any more, are allowed to use this method of the financial proof. In case you are a German, Swiss or Austrian citizen, Immigration might insists that you use the embassy- or consul-legalized proof of income, as long as you are a citizen of a country whose embassy in Bangkok still issue the income affidavit

@Michael *******

no, you don't need the financial proof when doing the border bounce into the "second year". However when applying for the 1-year Extension of Stay Permit when the second year is ending, you need to prove 2 months seasoning of a minimum of 800,000 THB in your Thai bank account in your sole name. AND you will need proof of a one year Thai private tgia-listed health insurance, as from the extension on, foreign insurances will not be accepted any more from Immigration