@Stanley ******

correct, that's what is happening to many

@Jan *****************

correct. The multi entry Non-o was available in most country's E-visa system until the end of September 2023

the only visa that allows one to keep money in the home bank, is the 365-days multi entry Non-Imm-O/A visa, as Brandon Thurkettle has already correctly posted.

@Jan *****************

This is quite another topic, you are talking about the "visa validity". This is only valid for multi-entry visa. The right to enter remains valid for a certain period, but you still receive a "stay permit" upon EACH entry. And please note, most Thai embassies do not issue 365-days multi entry Non-Imm-O retirement visa any more. They only issue the 90-days single entry category

@Shane ***********

indeed

@Adriana *********

then your friend was just lucky, the Immigration officers had a fine day, and thought "let's give both of these guys an extension, so they don't need to come back" . . . . .and by the way: There is NOTHING such as a 30-days visa-on-arrival. It is called visa-exempt entry and you receive a "stay permit" of 30 days

@Paul ***********

When you apply for a visa in the E-Visa system, your application will be forwarded to the Royal Thai Embassy in London, U.K. And THEY decide if you will get issued a visa or not. Thus, if I say that the Thai embassy in London is "doing" or better, "issuing" your visa, I am totally correct

@Paul ***********

you are posting misinformation. There has never been a one-year Non-O visa issued by Thai Immigration. However there has been a one-year "extended stay permit" issued by Immigration, This is the one where you need 800,000.- THB deposit in your Thai bank account. Only once you have collected 12 months consecutive transfers of minimum of 65,000 THB from abroad into your Thai account, you will be able to use a one-year bank statement for the application to the next one-year "extended stay permit" (which is NOT a visa, that 's the misinformation you posted!)

@Nigel *************

well, your reply doesn't hold any helpful hint for the threadstarter, because he is doing a wholly different itinerary that yours under different circumstances. He is doing a border run by air and doesn't use an agent. Vietnam is visa-exempt, entering doesn't cost him a single "$barth", and the re-entry to Thailand is also free of charge

@Nigel *************

$$$ Dollars or "Barts" . . I am just wondering which country is using Barths as their currency 😂😃