@Markiv ********

I do the same for my retirement extension, I get the bank set up the letter of guarantee for three months, although 2 months would suffice

you cannot do 30-days visa-exempt entries and their 30-days extensions forever. At some point at the border they will refuse entry, because you are misusing the 30-days visa-exempt route for a longstay. You need a different plan. You could start studying Thai language, this will get you 15 months, however you will have to attend classes physically as Immigration is going to test your fluency in Thai. Yearlong language courses start at 40,000.- THB

@Eddie *******

ONLY at the Pattaya/Jomtien Immigration, they ask for a 2 month seasoning of the 800K when you initially apply for the Non-Imm-O visa (process called "change of visa type" from a visa-exempt or tourist visa to the 90-days Non-Imm-O visa) On other immigrations, the 2 month seasoning is only asked for when you apply for the 1-year extension

@Lyndon ***********

well, this was not a typical EOS but a "change of visa type" from a TR visa to a 90-days Non-O visa. Maybe the applicant didn't have a valid TM30 so Immigration decided to visit. LIKE I SAID: it is absolutely NOT the standard procedure

@Lyndon ***********

any reason why all the sudden Immigration starts this practise? Linked to the planned tax ? Myself for the past 16 years do not live in the house I got a yellow housebook for. However everybody who lives in my registered home is instructed what to tell Immigration should they surprisingly visit. I will be on a holiday trip in Thailand! 😂😂😂😂 you got a lot to learn. Mr. Cunnilingerer

@Lyndon ***********

you are the first person iI ever heard or read of, in my 12+ years of visa advice, who gets paid a visit by Immigration when applying for a retirement extension in Bangkok. . . . If you take a minute of time to reconsider, you might see what I clearly see: why would any Immigration officers voluntarily throw themselves into the throngs of the busy traffic in Bangkok, just in order to verify where the applicant lives? What - of ANY importance - would the neighbours know about this guy? As far as I know, this procedure only applies to married Thai/Farang couples. . . . Well I promise, I am gonna believe you, as soon as I find a second person who can confirm this.

@Lyndon ***********

why would they visit you at home? To check what? 😲 then you obviously have some aura around your appearance which makes the Immigration officers think that you are hiding something from them 😎😂😎😂

@Lyndon ***********

but not on retirement extension. Maybe on a married/family extension. The OP is NOT married to a Thai

@Deepark ******

a re-entry is only valid as long as the stay permit he is on. When his "retirement visa" expires, the re-entry permit expires, too!

@Lyndon ***********

🤓 home visits to applicants for a retirement extension? Never heard of. Retirement extensions are handed out on the spot, there won't be any "under consideration" period issued . . . . . . Immigration will only visit applicants to the Extension of Stay based on marriage to a Thai wife, during the "under consideration" period