@Brandon ***********

hi could you tell me the agency that does the meet at bangkok airport , flight in from Phillipines so it will be Duang mang airport. I thought you mentioned one before

@Robert ********

My friend did that last year and return after one month and hassle from immigration at airport had to do a lot of talking to get into country from uk so be careful , so many horror stories

@Chris *****

what company do you recommend for the meeting at airport ?

How much is the 90 day non o visa if applying in uk ? Is the application onerous for those of us not so good with IT ?

@Patrick *******

thanks for reply, I’ll pass this on , he will be getting a multi entry retirement visa. He was there in March / April and a few people told him it was nearly impossible to get retirement visa and bank account in Pattaya and he might need to go to Bangkok , fingers crossed he gets an agent that can get him sorted out.

@Braulio ********

I totally agree , Brandon is correct , his way of stating it makes it clear, it’s just hard for some people to hear the truth my friend was in similar position, no child but he visited twice , he was nearly refused entry second time , so when he returns with us in September he is going to get a vip entry to get hi. In safely and then hopefully a retirement multi entry visa so he can come and go easier. It’s well documented that immigration are clamping down. I sympathise but I agree with everything Brandon says, he’s not being nasty just direct.

@Greg **********

thanks for that explanation, really appreciated

When my friend did the retirement visa at beginning of April , his agency in Pattaya , a very well known agency with a good reputation struggled to get him a bank account, eventually got it but it took several visits to do it. Then we heard that no agencies were doing retirement visas due to some problem with bank accounts. Has this settled down now , we are travelling sept/ October and one friend intends to get retirement visa to stay longer . We also had issues getting through immigration last time as we returned a month after leaving , immigration told us we came back to quick and grilled us for information, one of group was only staying 2+weeks the others were staying longer and hoping to extend the 60 to 90 days . One friend went to visa place beside immigration at jomtiem who did his extension for him , think it was 4000 baht. We all might need to bite the bullet and get retirement visa with multiple entry so we feel secure enough to visit

@THAI *****************************

thanks that’s good to know , friend is in Cambodia , Laos and phillipines return September so I’ll let him know

Have the restrictions on bank accounts been relaxed? My friend tried to get retirement visa last month but agents in Pattaya couldn’t open bank account to meet the visa requirements. I read on this forum that some agents had announced that they couldn’t open accounts .