@Gary *********

it is a VERY BAD idea to travel around South East Asia while you are on a 90-days stay permit inside Thailand, awaiting the 800.000 THB in your Thai bank account to settle for 2 months, so you can apply for the "1-year Extension of the Stay Permit Based on Retirement" (which is NOT anything like you call a "visa extension", it is just an extension of a stay permit). Once you arrived and got stamped in for a 90 days stay permit, and after having opened the Thai bank account and transferred the required minimum of 800,000 THB onto it, you should sit tight, and enjoy your stay in Thailand. When getting issued the "1-year Extension of the Stay Permit" on the Immigration office, you can buy a multi re-entry permit for this one year stay permit for 3800 THB on the same day, and then the road is open for extended stays in other South East Asian countries

@Graham *****

he is seeking to apply for a 90-days Non-Imm-O Visa in the online E-Visa system. There he gets asked for an invitation. If he had continued reading, he would have found that he also has the easy option to upload a few days of hotel booking (which he can cancel after submitting the application!) instead of the more complicated to-get-by invitation from a juristic person (which needs proof of Thai ID Card, blue housebook, signatures etc and much more)

Roger Jones you don't need an invitation letter from anyone for the application to the 90-days Non-Imm-O Visa. You need to check the many "or" between the requirements that are listed . . . . . You got the viable option to book a few nights in a hotel and upload the booking confirmation, instead of an "invitation letter"

@Roger ******

you don't need an invitation letter from anyone for the application to the 90-days Non-Imm-O Visa. You need to check the many "or" between the requirements that are listed . . . . . You got the viable option to book a few nights in a hotel and upload the booking confirmation, instead of an "invitation letter"

@Carla ******

don't arrive on a tourist visa. You won't be able to get a bank account opened. Apply for the 90-days Non-Imm-O Visain your home country, and enter Thailand on it. You will be stamped in for a 90 days stay permit. Enough time to get a bank account openend and transfer 800,000 THB onto it. Then as soon as the funds have sat in the account for the required 2 months, apply for the "1-year Extension of the Stay Permit based on Retirement"

@Peter ********

then use a Visarun service drive you to Nong Khai, exit Thailand, enter Laos, maybe stay in Vientiane 2 nights and then re-enter Thailand, activating the Non-Imm-O visa and receive a 90-days stay permit. On this stay permit, you can get a bank account opened

@Peter ********

go to Pattaya for a few days. F.S. Consulting Co. costs 5000 THB to open a bank account for you if you entered on a Non-Imm-O Visa

@Daran *********

you normally buy a multiple entry permit for 3800 THB AFTER you have been issued the 1-year Extension of the Stay Permit based on being married to a Thai wife. You could theoretically buy a multi re-entry permit for the 90-days stay permit you get stamped in when you enter Thailand, however I do not see any sense in doing so. A re-entry permit is only valid for the duration of the stay permit it has been bought for

@Ant **********

F.S. Consulting Co in Pattaya costs 5000 THB for opening a bank account, if you are on a Non-Imm visa class

@Tony ****

in Pattaya that would be Mot's, Maneerat or F.S. Consulting. In Bangkok that would be Thai Visa Centre. In Hua Hin I would pick Anna Visa