@Ralph ******

well, the threadstarter could not have applied for the TDAC and confused it with the application to a E-Visa online tourist visa, because the TDAC form doesn't ask you to upload any pictures. The threadstarter 100% meant they applied for the E-Visa tourist visa. However, I agree some readers in the groups are confusing the TDAC with applying for a visa, although the intro of the TDAC form explicitly warns everyone that this is NOT an application for a visa.

On most Immigrations you can apply when half of the stay permit is left, that would be 30 days before expiry in your case.

You need to be properly TM30 registered in your accomodation by your hotel or landlord, to be able to apply for the 30-days touristic extension, on most Immigrations.

You need your passport, copies of the entry stamp page and the page with the personal information, signed in blue ink, and 1900 Thai Baht application fee.

And most probably since May 1st this year, a printout of the TDAC online form.

The application form TM7 can be had and filled out at the Immigration office

@Ralph ******

??? really?? The question says, they applied for the tourist visa (single entry 60-days tourist visa).The question, as of now, is as the following: "My husband and I just applied for the online tourist visa. We are coming in 2 weeks for a 1 week vacation. They rejected our visas because the pictures I uploaded weren’t good enough. It was a huge pain in the butt. My question is can we just show up with our documents and get in? We are from the US and paid the $40 each already" . . . . . . . . so, at some point the text was changed?

@Yo***

you can, however I don't like it. Because as myself being an admin to (another) visa advice group, I encourage to keep the topic public and open in the group itself, so everybody can learn

@Jesper ******

my Thai driving license shows my old address and an expired passport number. The bank staff wouldn't know. It is some cure for really stupid people. A Thai driving license does not replace a person's ID or a passport. If a bank staff was willing to accept it, you were lucky to meet such a stupid bank employee

@Jesper ******

your advices and comments are terrible, since you started to comment in this group. I have yet to read ONE post from you that makes any sense. You should take a long holiday from the group. There are plenty of barstool experts in Soi 6 who would be happy with your company

@Marty ********

exactly. The clock is running. That's why I do not recommend to waste much time running around trying different banks and meet incompetent bank staff, in vain. Get a 5000 THB agent service and you have a bank account opened within 2 days

@Jesper ******

what a useless waste of time . . . . . you forget to mention that the 30-day clock for opening a bank account in Thailand and transfer 800,000 THB onto it, starts on the day of entry . . so suggesting to "try hard and try even harder" might result in total waste of time. Visit bank branches as soon as having obtained the certificate of residency from Immigration (which already is a loss of days), and if you don't succeed on the banks, don't try much longer, get an agent to get your bank account opened in 2 days, transfer the 800K ASAP because the money needs to have seasoned for 2 months on the day you apply to the 1-year Extension of Stay Permit based on retirement

@Jesper ******

yes sure Sir, because you need a driver's license to drive your car to the bank branch. This is very useful information. The bank staff that served you must be some of the most clever people in Thailand 😂 . .Don't even try tell us you didn't have to show your passport. You may tell this to your grandmother. I love these fairy tales from the barstool experts like you

@Jay ****

To obtain a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa in your home country, apply for it in the E-Visa online system of the Thai embassy in your home country.

***For the application to the 90-days Non-Imm-O visa, you can upload proof of a minimum of equivalent of 800,000 THB in your HOME bank account!

*** Enter Thailand on the 90-days Non-O Visa. Get TM30 registered at your accommodation, visit Immigration, get a “certificate of residence” from them.

Get a Thai mobile number.

Visit a bank branch and get the bank account opened

*** if the bank staff is too stupid to know how to do it, or if they are inventing rules they pull out of their noses so they do not need to service you

GET AN AGENT to get your bank account opened. The service fee should be something around 5000.- THB

*** Once the Thai bank account is opened, transfer from abroad a minimum of 800,000 THB onto it

***Wait until the 800,000 have seasoned for 2 months, get the bank letter that confirms it and visit Immigration. Apply for the

“1-year Extension of Temporary Stay Permit based on Retirement”

(which some people refer to as “retirement visa” . . but which is NOT a visa but just an extended stay permit)