@Richard **********

if you entered Thailand on a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, you don't have to prove that the 800,000 THB deposit came from abroad, for the application to the 12-months Extension of the Stay Permit. This proof is only needed when you apply for the 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa on Immigration inside Thailand, after you entered visa-exempt or on a tourist visa. This process would be called "change of visa type". You probably mixed up these two different approaches to the Extension

the 1-year extension started on the day after the 90-days stay permit from the Non-imm-O visa expired. So your next application will happen a week or two before the Extensions expires on July 2, 2025. You should have collected 12 months of consecutive transfers by then

in Thailand you cannot apply for the "1-year extension of stay based on retirement" (the thing people call wrongly "retirement visa") if your enter Thailand on a "365-days Non-Imm-O/A Longstay Visa". You will be forced to sign up with a Thai Private-Health insurance, if you go from the visa to the Extension of Stay out of a Non-Imm-O/A Visa. You should now apply for the 90-days Non-Imm-O RETIREMENT Visa (Non-Imm-O without the "A") in your home country on the e-visa system, enter Thailand, open a bank account, transfer the required 800,000 THB onto it. And as soon as the deposit has seasoned in your account for 2 months, you can apply for the "1-year Extension of Stay based on Retirement" (which is the REAL "retirement visa"!!) There is no health insurance required, no police record check, no medical statement as it would all be required for that Non-Imm-O/A Longstay Visa.

I am kinda bored by people arguing about “lost” interest profits. When you are well suited and retire in Thailand, you don’t care anymore about peanut shells you leave behind in your home country.

17 years ago, I happily deposited 800,000 THB in my Thai bank account, it granted me the opportunity to receive a one-year stay permit, and the luxury and freedom to live in a country, where I spend less than half on the living expenses I would have to pay in my home country.

The 800,000 Baht IMHO are a cheap “parking fee” for a fully legal stay in Thailand.

If you are happy paying agents to bribe corrupt Immigration officers, so be it. But be aware that you are caught in an agent hamster wheel you can’t easily escape, and the risk keeps floating over your head all the time, that a clampdown will reveal that you have bribed your stay in Thailand.

Which can you get arrested and deported.

Who tf cares about the interest your 800,000 THB would allegedly earn if I put it into a fixed term account in affixed account in your home country, and paying an agent in Thailand more than $1000 to bribe your way through to an illegally achieved stay permit?

I did never need an agent.

I came to Thailand 17 years ago on a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, I opened a bank account, transferred 800,000 THB onto it, and 2 months later applied for the "1-year Extension of the Stay Permit Based on Retirement". It is not rocket science. Everybody with an IQ past 80 can do it.

You can do it all by yourself. It cost me 200 Baht for the bank statement that my money was in the account for 2 months, and 1900 Baht for the application to the 1-year stay permit.

If you can't afford to park 800,000 THB on your Thai bank account, you should ask yourself if Thailand is the right place for you to retire. Living expenses are less than a half from what you would have to spend in your home country

@Jo *********

how recently? We are hearing reports that you get pulled aside for questioning when trying a second visa-exempt entry within a short period . . matter of fact, the recent stamp history in your passport gets checked, and if the officer comes to the conclusion that you are abusing the visa-exempt system, he will deny entry

@Ralph ******

wrong person, sorry. My reply was meant for

@Robert ******

@Jo *********

and I agree to disagree, because the 2nd visa-exempt entry and the extensions cannot be guaranteed.

@Andrew *******

and the more, should the visa-exempt stay permit get reduced from 60 days back to 30 days, then Wayne's proposal is a train wreck in the making

@Ronny ****

he is confusing DTV with Non-ED visas

@Pete ******

Your story is a fairy tale . . . . . .there are no clampdowns on DTV visa holders. There however are clampdowns on ED-visa holders who don't attend school lessons. It has been all over the news recently

@Andrew *******

only

@Dca ****

has posted correct info, so far