@Bulent *******

you cannot extend the 90 days stay permit out of a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, except that if you fulfill the requirements for the application to the "Extension of Stay Permit based on Retirement" - it means you can get your stay permit extended for one year. And repeat the application every year, meeting the requirements, again

@Porky *****

if you get warned, it will be logged in the central computer. So every immigration officer can see that you have been warned. You better stop thinking that they are stupid

@Greg ********

the O/A visa is not for retirement, it is called a "longstay" visa. You need a mandatory health insurance, and when you change from the visa to the extension, you will have to sign up with a private Thai health insurance company and need 800,000 THB in a Thai bank account. If you had started on a Non-O visa, you would keep the freedom of choice of your health insurance, because on a O-visa, it is not mandatory

@Lester ********

you would be lucky if a Thai private insurance company pays any Satang in case you need them. Often, they will find an excuse like you having suffered from pre-existing conditions so they don't have to pay

@Brian *******

wrong. He meant the amount of a 60,000 Thai Baht agent fee needed to bribe an agent to get the Retirement Visa and the 1.year Extension for you, without you having to show own funds. The agent fronts the 800,000 in your otherwise empty Thai bank account. . . . . This is not fully legal but a common practise among expats who live on a small budget or those who prefer to leave the 800,000 THB in their home bank accounts earning interest. Ido NOT recommend it!

@Porky *****

because most people get warned first, told to use a visa fit the purpose of stay, and then being admitted after the warning. This is the YELLOW CARD in a football game. It is NOT the red card, yet. So I keep calling the flag that goes up before the first warning the ORANGE FLAG, and it will be an orange flag in the Immigration central computer. After this, your next visa-exempt entry attempt will raise the RED FLAG - and result in an entry denied

@Orlane ****

you can enter on a tourist visa or visa-exempt. You do NOT need a mandatory Non-Imm-ED (education) Visa to start a language course. You can go to school or do online language courses while being in Thailand on a touristic stay permit. However you must be aware that after a few touristic entries, you can get denied entry for misusing touristic entries for a longstay in Thailand. There is no official limit, this is up to the discretion of the border official

@Randy ******

you pay too much. You can get it in Pattaya for 32,000 THB

@Randy ******

your 60,000 THB quotation is much to high. There are agents who do your first 15 months, without you having to show own funds, for 32,000 THB up to 37,000 THB. They even openly advertise in Facebook. You might have missed their adverts

@Brian *******

ONE WORD to the misunderstandings because of wrong wording:

***You ENTER on a 90-days Non-Imm-O retirement VISA.

***You will get stamped in for a 90-days STAY PERMIT. ***Then before these 90 days expire, you need to apply for the EXTENSION of the STAY PERMIT "based on retirement/over 50 years old".

***This extension of the stay permit is NOT a "visa", despite people calling it "retirement visa". It is an “extension of a temporary stay permit based on retirement”