you should throw your travel agent into the bin. Complete waste of time, as the filling out of the TDAC online digital arrival card starts from May 1st. and doesn't relate to you. Just fr....g check into your flight without a visa. If your plan stay in Thailand longer than 60 days and your return flight is after these 60 days you will get stamped in upon entry, you might need n onward travel proof for the airline

@Aspen *****

The only downside you need to consider, is . . . . . . you might expect the airline asking for an onward travel proof out of Thailand within the 60 days you will get stamped in when you enter without a visa. Other than that, just await the Email response and the affirmation to a DTV. You then only need to do a border run to activate your DTV

@Phil ******

he is not smart enough to realize that the Dixie Diploma he is waving with, for wealthy Europeans doesn't mean anything better than a wad of toilet paper. I guess he got depressive knowing how dvmb he actually is, and his responses show his useless struggle

@Dávid ******

so do you have a return ticket that departs Thailand on May 18th, which you show at the Thai Airways check-in counter? There is no problem at all entering Thailand without a visa, on your Hungarian passport. You will get stamped in for 60 days. However you will need to fill out the new TDAC online "digital arrival card". You have 3 days/ 72 hours, before your intended arrival to fill it out and submit. After submitting, you will receive an email confirmation, which can be shown at the Immigration counter either as a printout, or digitally on your mobile phone (myself I would prefer a printout)

@Matthew ********

No, nobody can know what he means, because he is using a common wording which could mean SIX different things . . . . . Now you better come down from your South Carolina Magnolia tree and start to LEARN something. . . . . . I texted this with regards and thanks to Robert Lagas, who wrote this!

Once more, because people try to give advice based on what they think is a "Retirement Visa"

First of all, you DO not have to be retired to apply for this visa. You however need to be 50 years or older

Second is that all options have DIFFERENT rules, regulations and requirements.

So please read and try not to give incorrect advice by using the requirements for a different type of visa or extension of stay.

What is a retirement visa?

It is a phrase used by foreigners and Immigration and it could be 6 different types of visa or stay permits, with different rules, regulations and requirements

OR

it could even be an 1 year Extension of Stay based on being over 50 years of age and willing to sit out the rest of their life inside Thailand.

It is easy to type “retirement visa”, but very difficult to understand which option the person refers to

Options are:

1. Single Entry Non Immigrant O visa based on being over 50 years of age

2. Multiple Entry Non Immigrant O visa based on being over 50 years of age (it got discontinued by October 2023 and is not available any more)

3. Non Immigrant O visa based on being over 50 years of age without entry by conversion at local immigration office

4. Non Immigrant O-A visa (Long Stay)

5. Non Immigrant O-X visa

6. Long Term Residency (LTR) visa

7. Extension of Stay based on being over 50 years of age and willing to sit out the rest of their life inside Thailand (stamp from Immigration, which is not a visa)

ONLY for options 3, 5 and 7 the applicant needs a bank account in Thailand or a Certificate of Income from their Embassy.

Option 2 cannot be applied for any more, since all Thai Embassies and Consulates took it out of the E-visa program.

Option 3 is applied for by conversion of your Visa Exempt Entry or Tourist Visa at your local Immigration Office inside Thailand.

Option 6 is applied for with support of BOI Thailand

Option 7 is applied for at your local Immigration Office AFTER you used a Non-Immigrant visa.

Other options are applied for at a Thai Consulate OR for those countries who are legit, on-line.

Thanks for reading this long explanation.

@Kool ******

there is nothing such as a "one year extension of the visa". The only thing Immigration is "extending", is the stay permit. A visa cannot get extended. Actually, a single entry 90-days Non-Imm-O visa becomes invalid & "used" when you enter Thailand. After you entered, you are in Thailand on a stay permit. This stay permit can get "extended" for one year. Buriram Immigration now uses the correct wording for what they are doing, they discontinued calling it "visa extension"

@Wayne *******

he is not on a "retirement visa". He has no visa any more. He is on a "1-year extended stay permit". A stay permit is not a visa. There is nothing such as a "one year retirement visa"

@Peter ********

you apply in the e-visa system of the country where you currently stay. As some embassies require flight tickets out of that country, or require proof that you are staying in this specific country

@Klaus *******

Du kannst schon lange an einem thailändischen ATM nicht mehr umgerechnet 3200.- Euro ziehen, auch nicht bei 30,000 THB am Krungsri ATM mehrmals hintereinander. Das gibt der ATM gar nicht her, ganz egal wie hoch Du das Limit Deiner deutschen Bank eingestellt hast

@Al *******

correct . . it is a bit tricky, one has to scroll down on the e-visa listings