@Roberto ********

some Immigrations this year have started to ask for the SOURCE of the income plus the existence of a Thai bank account, even if you are doing the financial proof by income or pension. The rules are slowly shifting. I hope you will be right in the future, but the reports we receive every day are pointing into the other direction. In Europe, the consulates of Frankfurt and Munich and the embassy Vienna only accept an application to a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement/over 50 Visa, if you are a "real" pensioner. They do not accept any other income than that from a pension. If you are NOT a pensioner yet, they direct you to apply for the 365-days Non-Imm-O/A Longstay Visa, instead

@Ling ****

not yet, but in the future you might be asked by Immigration to name the source. So if by then the source is not 100% a pension, they might direct to you start with a 365-days Non-Imm-O/A visa instead. This method is already practised by Thai embassies in some countries.

@Anna ********

you said he could, but isn't. That is not fully clear. If he adds some other income than pension to the total to make good for the minimum of 65,000 THB per month, and Immigration wants the source to be 100% a pension, he couldn't switch to the income proof, like everybody whose embassy doesn't issue an income affidavit anymore, is doing. He would need to stick to the deposit proof

@John *********

some Immigrations have started to ask for the SOURCE of the income. I think in the future you will need to be a "real" pensioner when you start out of a Non-Imm-O Visa. In Germany and Austria it is already requested. If you are not receiving a pension but other income, or even if you can deposit 800,000 THB, if you are not a "real" pensioner, yet, the Thai embassy will direct you to apply for the Non-O/A LONGSTAY visa instead

@Stephan **********

some Immigrations this year have started to ask for the SOURCE of the income plus the existence of a Thai bank account, even if you are doing the financial proof by income or pension. The rules are slowly shifting. I hope you will be right in the future, but the reports we receive every day are pointing into the other direction. In Europe, the consulates of Frankfurt and Munich and the embassy Vienna only accept an application to a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement/over 50 Visa, if you are a "real" pensioner. They do not accept any other income than that from a pension. If you are NOT a pensioner yet, they direct you to apply for the 365-days Non-Imm-O/A Longstay Visa, instead

@Anna ********

today, this one was posted! The guy was asked for a bank account despite income affidavit. They also wanted to know the source of the money

@Peer ********

don't worry, the TM30 registration can be made personally on the Immigration on the next available working day after Immigration was closed. Take your wife with you, her Thai ID card, her blue housebook and your passport

@Jesper ******

if he followed your unsafe advice and Hua Hin would not accept the 800,000 THB that are in his Thai bank account since 20 years, because he cannot prove that the money - a long time ago! - came from abroad (which is the pre-requisite to be accepted for an application from a visa-exempt to an initial 90-days Non-O visa) he would be f....d. He would be forced to pay tea money. And he won't be very happy about your misleading advice.

@Martin *******

like others said: The Immigraton officer at the border will sum up all touristic entries you did during the recent 365-days period. He can clearly see it on his computer. If the stays exceed a 180 days period in total, he is going to pull you aside. Your chances are higher if you have stayed abroad for a long spell between each entry, and if you didn't maximize every visa-exempt stay with an extension

@John *********

you are not the only one. It is a potpourri of coming, going, extending, staying and returning. I am still left completely dizzy