@Yaoyu **********

in case you do everything by the book, use your own funds and fulfill all requirements, nothing speaks against using a middleman to help you speeden the application process. An agent usually takes something like 12,000 THB for the service of handling the Extension of Stay application, however in the most cases this does not save you from having to visit Immigration in person

@Yaoyu **********

Thai Immigration does not differentiate between a visa and a stay permit. For them in their bad English, it is all the same. And this is bullwash.

*** a visa is an endorsement that allows ENTRY into a country

*** a stay permit is an endorsement which allows the STAY inside a country

*** as you enter on a single-entry visa, the visa itself becomes invalid at the very moment you get a stay permit stamped into your passport

This entry stamp says “admitted until” and according to the visa-type you used, you will receive a specified period of stay permit written into the entry stamp. This can be 15, 30, 60, 90, 180 or 365 days.

A visa cannot get “extended”, this is technically impossible. Only stay permits can get extended by Immigration

This is, in brief words, the explanation of the difference between a stay permit and a visa -

Thank you for reading and your understanding, and don't try to deflect by telling us any wrongly interpreted nonsense

@Yaoyu **********

that's complete and utter bullwash

@Raymond ********

he already has a retirement visa. He is asking for the requirements for a "1-year extension of the stay permit based on retirement", inside Thailand. These requirements for the application to the EoS inside Thailand vary a bit from those required for the application to the retirement visa outside of Thailand

@Wayne *******

do you REALLY think that 24 people who in the recent 17 hours agreed with my correct wording and the distinction I made between a visa and a stay permit, are wrong ? Do you really think everybody is stupid? Won't they rather, like you do, tell me that I am confusing things? 😄😃😄😃😄

@Dylan *******

"your visa actually starts on the day you arrive" , , what a complete nonsense this is ! . . . . . The visa has a 3 months validity, this validity starts on the day the visa gets issued. When you enter on this visa, the 90-days STAY PERMIT starts on the day your enter, and the visa itself EXPIRES, it becomes "used", void, invalid. On the day you arrive, your STAY PERMIT starts and the visa is finished for further use. . . a "visa" is a only permit to enter, it becomes void when you enter. A stay permit is the permit of how long you can stay in the country after you entered

@Dennis ********

the embassy website clearly instructs applicants that one should not apply for the visa more than 3 months before the intended entry. Because most common visas are issued with a 3 months validity

@Harry *******

you didn't get a "visa on entry" . . not for you. You arrived without a visa and received a stay permit stamp

@Wayne *******

you don't "remain" on the visa. . . . A visa is a permit to ENTER a country, and a stay permit is the permit to STAY in a country for a specific time which is determined by the visa-class you used when you entered. After you entered, the permit to enter (the visa!) is void, used, finished. Only multiple re-entry visaclasses like the Non-Imm-O/A visa, remain valid until their validity expires. You are the one who is totally confused. I give up now, I can't teach anyone on the facts if the person refuses to understand the basic facts (yes, actually very basic facts which every child understands)