@Ronnie ******

yes you can. But you need to follow the law regarding taking currency out of Thailand

@Ronnie ******

in case you got a "single entry 90-days Non-Imm-O retirement visa", you can only change from the visa to the "one year extension of stay" by showing funds of 800.000.- THB in a Thai bank account. If you don't switch from the visa to the "extension" your time will be up within 90 days. As this visa was a "single entry", you can neither extend or repeat it. You need to exit Thailand before the 90 days stay permit is over

check-in to the flight with her Thai passport, exit USA with her U.S. passport. Enter Thailand with her Thai passport. On return, check-in with U.S. passport, exit Immigration with the Thai passport, enter USA with US passport

@Graham *****

and should you already got a TR-visa issued, it means that if you try to get a 30 days visa exempt upon entry, the border official will see your TR visa on the monitor and refuse the visa exempt. He will insist that you use the visa

@Graham *****

I have never before read or heard, that Immigration allows you to buy a single re-entry permit on a visa exempt or a 60 days tourist visa. They also have problems with selling you a re-entry permit for a 90-days Non-O visa

@Anita *****

show them a booking for two nights after planned antry, of any hotel.

@Stefan *******

and his agency F.S. Consulting

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@Graham *****

🥰 very good! Thanks a lot for he clarification!

@Michael *****

You received TONS of misleading advice here, so I am gonna try to get your ducks in a row

“Okay, so I will come back to Thailand again on my current OA before it expires, with health insurance, and will get a one year stamp”

That’s alright, if you enter before the Visa validity is up, you will receive 365 days stay permit, however only if your health insurance will carry you that far, too. You will have to show the insurance policy (must be in English) at the border, together with the signed F.I.C. (foreign insurance certificate)

“Then if I need to leave TH before end of that year”

During this “second year” you have no more re-entry permit. You can travel freely and exit and re-enter Thailand, but you need to buy a re-entry permit (single 1000.- THB, or multi 3800.- THB) before leaving Thailand, in order to keep your last stay permit alive

“I will top up account to 800k+ baht and before I leave Thailand get a non-O visa with re-entry permit so I can come back again on that non-O visa.”

This is NOT POSSIBLE, not this way around. In order to apply for a 90-days Non-Imm-O visa in your home country or on Immigration inside Thailand. You firstly have to invalidate the last stay permit you got stamped. This is easy during the second year, because leaving Thailand without a re-entry permit, will invalidate your stay permit and you are free, again, to apply for another visa

„Question: Is there no benefit in already having a valid OA when applying for a new non-O?”

It sounds wrong, because that’s what it is

It’s actually not possible to apply for another or new visa, if you still got a valid visa or a valid stay permit

You can get around the health insurance requirement only with an initial “Non-Imm-O retirement visa” and a subsequent application for a “1-year Extension of Stay Permit based on retirement” (in brief: EOS)

For the application to the “EOS” (which by the way is technically NOT a visa but an extended stay permit) on the day of application your 800.000.- THB deposit must have seasoned in your Thai bank account for two months. SOME immigrations ignore the police order and ask for 3 months seasoning. Beware!

For the application to the EOS out of a Non-Imm-O visa which you received abroad, you don’t need a proof that the money came from abroad.

However if you want to enter visa exempt or on a 60-days tourist visa, and apply for the “change of visa type” on Immigration, the 800.000.- THB will have to sit in the account yet, no seasoning proof required, but you need to prove that the money came from abroad.

@Michael *****

The receiving Thai bank must code the transfer accordingly. To receive this by a WISE transfer and being coded as coming from abroad, you must mark the transfer as “Funds for Longstay in Thailand”

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask here. I will stay with the thread

@Nick ***************

How long has the guy been sitting there since he realized he could not pay his way in with shoestrings any more? 😎 😂 😎 Let's call the Marines!