just my five cents: If you started with a Non-Imm-O retirement visa, Immigration doesn't care if you got a health insurance or not. A health insurance is not mandatory for a "1-year extension of stay permit" based on retirement out of a Non-Imm-O visa. Only if you started with a Non-Imm-O/A visa, the insurance is mandatory

@Bart *************

he can't use transferring money in the first year application to an extension of stay. First of all he needs to collect 12 months of regularily incoming 65,000 THB into his Thai bank account, before he can get away from the banked money method and use the income method with the bank letter confirming the 12 months, month for month incomming money

@YT *******************

a single entry visa becomes invalid for further use, upon entry. You will receive a "stay permit" with a duration according to the visaclass you used. This can be 15, 60, 90 or 365 days. After this one (single!) entry your visa is "used" and invalid. Only multi entry visa will remain valid during their "visa validity poeriod". If you wish to enter Thailand again, you will need either a new visa, or you can buy a re-entry permit FOR the stay permit that you got stamped in with, which will keep said stay permit alive. That's why a "visa" cannot get extended. Only stay permits can get extended. The problem however is, Thai Immigration with their bad English calls extensions of stay permits wrongly "visa extensions", and that's why you all think that "visa" can get extended, when in reality, they cannot

@Michael *******

Greg is right . . . . a „visa“ cannot be extended and will never get “extended”

Even when the paper pushing stamps stamping officers on Thai Immigration call it “visa extension”, all they do is extending a simple “stay permit”

As a “visa” is meant for use when ENTERING their beautiful country, a single entry visa becomes invalid the moment you used it upon entry, so logically, it cannot be extended any more.

A "visa" is for entering, and a "stay permit" is for staying in a country.

What you get stamped into your passport at the border, is an “admitted until” stamp, in simple words: “a stay permit”. It is NOT a “visa”

Now let’s assume that 95% of the people who answered you on Facebook, used the wrong wording as well and believe in “visa extensions” . . . . it sometimes makes you wonder if you can ever receive a thumb solid information in a Facebook Group.

It is like the roll of dice

And before I leave the discussion: Yes you can get your “visa” extended on immigration (sorry for using the wrong expression), just get up from your hocks and shuffle to the next immigration to listen to what they say

They will say “we can extend your visa”, but they are in the wrong. All they technically are doing, is extending your stay permit

@David *******

in case you get pulled aside and asked for proof of funds, you need CASH. 20,000.- THB in CASH in Thai Baht or another currency. Your bank statements will NOT be accepted. Your house, your boat, your cars, your grandmother = they are not interested in that

@Nigel *******

in case you get pulled aside and asked for proof of funds, you need CASH. 20,000.- THB in CASH in Thai Baht or another currency. Your bank statements will NOT be accepted

@Andrew ********

maybe try "property purchase" in the drop down menue, because that's because the land office wants to see the money came from abroad . . luck has it the transfer will be coded as bein a FET

@Declan *********

there is nothing such as a "multi entry ED visa". Either one has a "1-year extension of stay permit based on an ED visa" and bought a multi-entry permit for 3800.- THB for the remainder of this stay permit, or he holds a single entry Non-Imm-ED visa

He can try Siam Exchange. They are known for tolerating damages and scribbles. You find therm at the northern end of the MBK Center. Here's their website:

if you are over 50 years old, you could apply for the 90-days Non-Imm-O retirement visa, and in Thailand change it to the 1-year extension of stay permit based on retirement. It is a much easier process to achieve than the marriage extension. It however requires a deposit of 800,000.- THB on your Thai bank account in the first year