@Damo **********

yet these important details didn't get mentioned on this non-official website. Please refrain from linking non-official websites, they are full of BS

@Benjamin ******

AGAIN: Yes but only possible if you use your own funds. you missed the topic - it is about using an agent without own funds. If your friends used an agent to front them, they would NOT have been able to do their next extension of stay permit without the agent. That's what we call the "agent hamster wheel"

@Mike *****

be careful, there is a lot of misinformation on that website. It actually does not clarify which financial proofs you are required to show when starting out with a 90-days Non-Imm-O Family Visa, or with a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa

@Todd ********

you don't really "own" a house

@Shawn ******

it's just that you have to understand this visa. It's 6-months validity starts on the date of issue. It gives you a 60-days stay permit upon each entry. You have the option to either extend the stay permit for 30 days for 1900 THB on Immigration, before doing at least ONE border run, or do a "border run" before the 60 days stay permit expires - meaning exit and re-enter Thailand - and get stamped in for another 60 days. Within the visa validity, each re-entry gets you stamped in for 60 days

@Shawn ******

as I am not sure if a financial proof must be mad for the METV. For me (German citizen) these proofs, that were a 5000.- Euros in my bank account, got discontinued by October 30th, 2023.

check the website of the Ottawa embassy or the Vancouver consulate (whichever applies to you) for the exact requirements

the easiest 6-months visa is the "multi entry 6-months Tourist Visa" applied by the E-Visa system in Canada. It does not require any financial proofs. . . . . you can apply for the METV every other year. Just don't stay in Thailand longer than 180 days per each holiday, as it would make you a tax resident of Thailand

@Albert *******

it's up to you if you chose to pay an agent to bribe Immigration, because you cannot fulfill the requirements by yourself. Be aware that it is not easy to get out of the Agent's "hamster wheel" in the years following

@Frank ****

did he have a 90-days single entry Non-Imm-O visaclass? On this visaclass he can open a Thai bank account. He needs a Thai mobile number, a "certificate of residence" from Immigration and some cash to deposit. Best to have a Thai accompany him for translating, or use an agent. . . . . 90 days . . it can't be anything. As there is - despite your earlier remark - nothing such as 90-days tourist visa.