@Ken ******

this "embassy information" is COMPLETELY WRONG. Refer to what I wrote in my other comment.

you cannot get a 30-days extension on top of the 90-days stay permit out of a 90-days Non-Imm-O family visa". you can switch it into a "1-year extendended stay permit" by fulfilling the financial requirements. Your only other alternative is to get a "60-days family visit extension" on top of these 90-days stay permit. For this your marriage must be acknowledged inside Thailand, as Immigration will want to see proof of that

Ivan Sara . . you only need to wait for two more years, you can bridge these with a "6-months multi entry Tourist visa" from the Thai Embassy Norway. And after you have turned 50, you could ask the embassy if the are willing to accept your application to a 90-days Non-Imm-O retirement visa, on the base of a "financial proof by the combination method". This method allows you to combine a mix of the income proof with a deposit proof. The sum of both must result in more than 800.000.- THB yearly. In Thailand on Immigration you would then need the income affidavit from the Norwegian Embassy and the Thai Bank "letter of guarantee" that proves your deposit. Why I say you must ask both Embassy and Immigration? Because not every Immigration allows the combination method in the first year. So you need to do your homework and mail your questions, find out about it and maybe chose the service of an agent to help you through the "legal" (!!) process of the "combination method" using your own income and savings

@Robert *******

this is NOT an official Thai government or embassy website! This is just somebody trying to give you wrong info

@Sachuwat ******

your financial statements were good for using them for the application to the 90-days Non-Imm-O retirement visa in Australia. . . . . . but you CAN'T use these original statements on any Immigration office inside Thailand, for the application to the 1-year extension of stay based on retirement

@Sachuwat ******

I see that you are from Australia, right? This means you CANNOT use the income method in the first year, because your embassy does not issue an income affidavit. You will have to use 800.000 THB on your Thai bank account for the first year. And as soon as you have collected twelve months of consecutive transfers, you can switch to the income method for the application of the second year extension of stay. Only at this moment you can take the 800.000.- THB out of your Thai bank account

@Kace ******

You are confusing two essential requirement methods:

***you can fulfill the financial requirement by holding a deposit of minimum 800.000.- THB in your Thai bank account.

On the day of application, it has to have seasoned for two months.

After having been issued the “1-year extension of stay permit”, a minimum of 800K need to be maintained for three more months. After that, the deposit cannot go below 400.000.- THB.

And two months before the application to the next extension, you need to hold a minimum of 800.000.- THB, again

***if your embassy still issues the “legalized income affidavit”, which states that you earn a minimum of 65.000.- THb monthly, you can use the “income method” to fulfill the financial requirement.

*** in case your embassy does NOT issue an income affidavit any more (USA, UK, AUS), you will need proof of 12 months incoming from abroad consecutive money transfers of a minimum of 65.000.- THB. Month for month, and on the day of application you will need this 12-months bank statement

NOTED:

If you use WISE for the money transfer, make sure it gets coded as coming in from abroad in your Thai bankbook (there was a change recently, and right now this can be accomplished by choosing “for buying property in Thailand” as the reason for the transfer)

your option is number 9 click on it!. . . . . but you need to hurry up, open a bank account, transfer the 800K from abroad, apply to the "change" from a tourist visa to a 90-days Non-Imm-O retirement visa. You need a rental contract and you need to have a minimum of 15 days left on your stay permit in order to be allowed to apply for the "change"

@Mark ******

well, nobody can guarantee that your airline won't ask. However on a 90-days non-Imm-o visa category, you normally needn't show onward travel proof, because this visa can be changed into a longstay. There are many people who fly to Thailand on a one-way ticket, on a Non-Imm-O visa, and they won't be asked once they show this visa upon check-in

@Graham *****

exactly, the airline will not ask if you show a 90-days Non-Imm-O visa