Dave Fletcher . . . you need to open the E-visa online application. You will be able to apply for the 90-days single entry Non-Imm-O retirement/over 50 visa. Just follow the lead. There is no need to take the Non-Imm-O/A visa. Embassy of Ottawa offers the Non-Imm-O visa! Check their website!

. however the pitfalls at the Malaysia land borders are a bit complicated to list

@Graham *****

he seems to be a Czech citizen who will receive the 30 days visa-exempt stay permit

Simon Adams

The visa was issued on March 11. It’s validity for use for an unlimited number of entries (“multiple entry”) expires on September 6

The 6 months visa validity starts on March 11. So if you enter Thailand on March 20, you lose 9 days of visa validity.

Upon each entry, you will get stamped in for a 60 days stay permit

On each and every 60 days stay permit you can apply for a 30-days extension of the stay permit, for 1900.- THB, on Immigration.

If you take the 30 days extension, you must be aware that before the 90th day expires, you need to exit Thailand.

With the next entry, you will activate another 60 days stay permit

Which you also can extend for 30 more days.

To get the maximum number of days out of this visa, you should therefore enter Thailand as close as you can, to the date of issue

If you exit and re-enter Thailand before midnight of September 6 (or any day before this date) you will get stamped in for 60 daysfor the last time.

You can then still get a 30 days extension of this last 60-days stay permit, and it will take you to theoretically almost 9 months of stay in Thailand

@Sam ********

your friend doesn't "extend the visa". Immigration is only issuing a "1-year extension of stay permit". A stay permit is not a visa

@Ruth ******

the folks who pay the agents, need to pay this sum EVERY year 😎

@Michael *******

you don't seem to have understood the concepts of a "visa" and a "stay permit", or you wouldn't add your laughter smiley underneath all the correct information. I am out of my wits to explain why it is a FACT that a visa cannot get extended. And why Immigration still are "extending visa" and refuse to accept that they are actually not extending any visa 🤣😂

@Steve ******

leave the 800,000 THB in your account until you have secured the Extension Of Stay with the 12.months transfers of 65,000 THB. Don't withdraw before the application to a new extension

@Marty ********

the flight back home to aspply for a new OA visa every year, eats up the interest on your 800,000 THB would earn on a US bank. I never understand people who will rather pay 30,000 THB tea money to an agent to avoid having to put 800,000 THB into their Thai bank account (at SCB they pay me 1.25% interest!) and reason that they get more interest on a US bank, . . . . but then need to fly back home and back to Thailand every two years with a 1000.- to 1200.- USD flight ticket 🙂

@Marty ********

everything you wrote about the O/A and O visa is correct, except the part when you call the yearly extension of stay "visa extension". Immigration calls it the same, and they are wrong, this is very bad English and technically wrong. You don't get any visa extended - as in fact, you don't have a visa anymore from the point on when you got issued your first extension of stay - you just get your STAY PERMIT extended. A stay permit is not a visa