if you enter visa-exempt, you can't apply for an in-country Non-Imm-O retirement visa, because you cannot open the Thai bank account which is needed for this process. You need to apply for the 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa in your home country before you wing your way here. On this visa, you can open a Thai bank account

@Stefan ***********

keep in mind, you will need to fly back to Thailand a minimum of 1-2 weeks before your EOS expires on July 17th, or you won't be able to apply for the next 1-year extension of the stay permit, and have to start the whole process again

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

ah, I didn't know that. So my plan would not work

Read what Brandon wrote. The airline would not let you board a flight from Vietnam to Thailand if your passport doesn't have a 6 months validity. So you should be travelling back to Thailand overland. Like taking a bus from Da Nang via Savannakhet/Laos to Ubon Ratchathani. I guess this will work, however no guarantee from my side, mate

@Paul ********

Your stamp shows, you entered on a 90-days Non-Imm-O visa, and got stamped in for a 90-days stay permit. Your visa is expired. You are inside Thailand on a stay permit. As soon as there are 30 days left of your 90-days stay permit, you can apply for the "1-year extension of the stay permit based on retirement", Which is NOT (!) a "visa". You said you already got the 800,000 in your Thai bank account, so everything would be perfectly pre-arranged, you can prove the money was in the account 2 months prior to your application with the "bank letter of guarantee" from your Thai bank. You do not need a rental contract or a health insurance to apply for the 1-year extension out of a Non-Imm-O visa, however you must be properly TM30 registered at your accomodation, if you want any service done by the Immigration office

@Rob *********

and

@Stephen *******

and

@Stan *********

. . . you are dancing around the relevant processing . . . . . . . .the owner/keeper of the blue housebook first has to register the house in the TM30 Online System. He/she will receive a login-ID and a password. He/she will be asked by the system to change the password. After this is done, the owner/landlord/friend can register the visiting or renting foreigner in the TM30 online system as having arrived at this accomodation. The foreigner usually doesn't register the house in the system by himself, as he would need the blue housebook to do so, however if the owner of the house hands the foreigner the login-ID and the password, he can register every of his arrivals by himself . .

Correct wording is important!

*** in December you do not apply for a “one year Non-Immigrant O visa”.

The 90-days Non-Imm-O visa with which you are going to enter Thailand, will become invalid upon entry. You will receive a 90-days “stay permit”, based on this visa.

By December, you will then apply for a “one year extension of the stay permit”

*** You should apply for a new passport in your country ASAP!!

Immigration will issue the “1-year Extension of Stay” only for the rest of the time of your passport validity

*** and do not forget, on the same day when you get issued the “1-year Extension of Stay Permit” (EOS) stamp, buy a single re-entry permit for the extension. It costs 1000 THB and will keep your 1-year stay permit alive when you exit the country before the expiry of the EOS

I am wondering why you are such a pessimist. Maybe because someone in charge detected a low intelligence level and decided to make a fool of you

@Chris *****

she may have been questioned, but don't you tell us she was refused entry. The TWAT is on you . .you are full of BS.

@Chris *****

it almost NEVER happens, that's a fact. Show me numbers of people on valid visitor visa who were refused entry. Don't show me any ChatGPT text blurb bla bla bla