@Yeo *********

thee is nothing such as a "free year"

@Pete ******

okay, so this means you got a multi re-entry included until the expiry date of the visa validity. Attention: this expiry date is NOT the same date as the expiry date of the 1-year stay permit you got stamped in on September 1. So as long as you enter before the expiry date of the visa (that's the date behind the text "visa must be used until" on the .pdf visa document) you will get stamped in for another 365-days, which however depends on how long your health insurance is carrying you, as you will get stamped in for not any longer than the expiry of the insurcance - OR for a maximum of 365 days. AFTER the expiry of the visa validity, you do not have a multi re-entry permit any more,. This means, that if you wish to travel and exit Thailand during the "second year" you need to buy a re-entry permit in order to keep the most recent stay permit stamp alive

@Pete ******

are you in the first year of the O/A visa? In the first year you don't need a re-entry permit, because there is a multi re-entry permit included in your visa. . . . . Or are you already in the second year, then you need to buy a re-entry permit. Or are you already on a 1-year Extension of Stay Permit out of a long expired O/A visa, then you also need to buy a re-entry permit for this one-year stay permit

@John ******

Thailand doesn't offer anything like a "30-days holiday visa". There is nothing such. There are: a 15-days VOA you can buy for 2000 THB before entering - but only for selected few nations . . . There is the 60-days STAY PERMIT you and citizens of 93 nations get stamped when you arrive without a visa. And last but not least there is the 60-days single entry Tourist Visa that gets you stamped in for 60 days. . . . if you now spend a holiday, or sighseeing, or studying, or travelling around on history's tracks, or hang around in Soi 6 lady's bars, - that's totally up to you. However it doesn't give you the right to call a tourist visa or any of the above "holiday visa"

@Terry *******

the visa itself becomes invalid upon entry, because it is a single entry visa, as far as this goes, you are right. However, for any stay permit issued you can buy a re-entry permit. So this means, when you enter on a 90-days single entry Non-O visa, you get stamped a 90-days stay permit, the visa expires, and for this stay permit you can buy a re-entry permit

@Terry *******

this is not true. He can buy a re-entry permit for the first 90-days stay permit and exit Thailand. He then just needs to return before the initial 90-days stay permit stamp expires (because the re-entry permit does not keep his stay permit alive any longer than he got stamped in initially)

@Donald *******

transfer the 800,000 back to your home bank account! Then apply for the visa, again, through the E-Visa online system in the USA. Because the three months bank statements maybe get accepted if the updated account net is more than 800,000 THB equivalent at the date of application, and the 3-mon ths statements are proof enough that you held that required sum over a long time

@Ian ******

You are adressing the wrong person. Myself it never took me more than 10 minutes to get a certificate of residency. Nowadays I have a yellow housebook, I don't need the COR any more

@Michael *******

sure, yes, even the ones done at the Amphur first need a verification by court before the beneficiary can access the funds

@Yo***

it depends what you are asking from Immigration. If you have entered on a 90-days Non-O visa, for an application to the 1-year extension based on retirement, Immigratin won't ask for the source. For the application to the "change of visa type" on Immigratin inside Thailand, Immigration wants a proof that the 800,000 came from abroad