@Geri ********

you won't receive two 30-days extensions on top of a 60-days single entry Tourist Visa. . . . . . . . .the Thai Embassy totally misinformed you. You will only receive ONE 30 days extension. You will have to exit Thailand before the 90th day stay permit expires. This is called "border run" and you better don't attemp to do that by yourself. I instead recommend using a "Visa Run Agency" that takes you to to a land border safely in their minivans and ensures that you exit and re-enter without any problems from the border officials. This is called a "visa-exempt entry" and will get you another stay permit stamp for 60 days. The "Visa Run Agencies" usually cost between 3500 and 5200 THB, depending from where you start out. They will check your passport for the stamp history and will guarantee that you can get another 60 days stay permit

No, you cannot apply for a 1-year Non-Imm-B visa, and multi entry Non-Imm-B visa are not issued any more since October 2023. Only the single-entry version is available.

First, you need to apply for the 90-days single entry Non-Imm-B visa, by uploading all the required documents from your employer into the e-visa application.

After you have entered Thailand, you need the work permit and wait a minimum of 60 days, before you can apply on Immigration for the 1-year Extension of Stay based on Employment. For this 1-year stay permit, you can buy a multi re-entry permit for 3800 THB

@Pat ********

I doubt that you are on any real "tourist visa". You seem to have entered visa-exempt. You are on a stay permit, not on a visa. And the times when one could do consecutive visa-exempt entries one after another, have definitely come to an end. If you spent a few of the mentioned 6 months on visa exempt stay permits, you will probably be denied the next attempt for another visa-exempt entry. So beware and have a Plan B in your pocket

@Ralph ******

actually, there is a video from Thai Immigration explaining to Thai landlords their duty to report the foreigner

@Lynnette ******

correct, but for the opening of the two bank accounts, each of them needs a certificate of residence from Immigration. The clock is running, as the 12-months extension can only be applied for if the deposit has sat in the accounts for 2 months. That can bring them into crosshairs, as some Immigrations don't issue a certificate of residence before you haven't made your first 90-days report . . . .the typical CATCH22 situation . . . . . . . . . . Better use an agent for the bank account opening to avoid running around from bank to bank. After this is settled, they can do the rest by themselves without an agent

@Richard ********

I wish ya Good Luck in all your enterprises! You will definitely need it 😶

With a word of thanks to moderator and admin Brandon Thurkettle. This advice is an older one by him, about the same topic. I hope he will allow me to repost it - I have however altered the text a little bit 🙂

“The process and rules are very clear.

At the time you apply for your extension, you must be able to show 12 months of at least 65,000 continuously month per month of international transfers into your bank account, coded as coming in from abroad.

If you miss it by even one day in a month, for example you made the transfer on the 30th but it didn't clear until the 1st of the next month, your extension would be denied because you failed to meet the requirements.

The only thing that varies with immigration offices can be that some will require the 65,000 to be in a single transfer each month, and not a combination of transfers throughout the month.

Some immigration offices have also started asking for proof of the income, such as proof of the pension payments or something along those lines.

You ALSO must have met the requirements for the previous year's extension, when you used the deposit method as proof of finances. Those requirements are that you keep your bank account at 800,000 baht for 3 months after you received the extension stamp, and then never let your bank account drop below 400,000 the rest of the year.

Immigration will check your 12 months of bank statements to make sure those rules were met as well. If you failed to meet those requirements, your extension will be denied.

For those who apply for the 1-year extension of stay permit based on being married to a Thai wife, and show the required 12-months monthly international transfers of a minimum of 40,000 THB:

If you meet all the requirements and get your extension, you can then withdraw the 400,000 if you used the deposit method for the first year extension based on being married to a Thai wife, and use it as you wish and you'll need to continue the monthly transfers of at least 40,000 THB every month."

month for month, every month, for a minimum of 12 months. And prove it with a bank statement over a full year (the document could take 1-2 weeks to get issued). And the money transfers have to show (be coded) in the bankbook as having come from abroad

Richard Spencer . . .this could get hairy . . . . most embassies have discontinued issuing a "trailing spouse" Non-Imm-O Visa, so you will most probably need to apply for the "retirement visa" and the subsequent extension each one by yourself, and supply the financial requirements each by yourself, too. . . . . . . In case you don't have the required funds of 2 x 800,000 THB and need an agent to get you through the process of opening a bank account for both of you (!), getting the 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement visa for both of you (!) and getting the 12-months extension of the stay permit based on retirement for you - then you should be prepared to pay an agent a minimum of 55,000 THB, each of you. That's the price a well known visa agent in Bangkok is asking for. It could even be higher in Hua Hin .. . . . . . . . IF you have the required funds, then do everything by yourself, you don't need the agent. But make sure you arrive - both of you - on a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa. Only on this visa type, you can get a Thai bank account opened.

Actually, if you have submitted the TDAC and received the confirmation email before your flight, you will most probably not be asked anything by the Immigration officer. When theys can your passport, they can see on their monitor that you had submitted a TDAC, so in order to speed the entry process, they won't ask you to show it