@Paul ***

oh and it DOES matter how you call it, because this is a VISA ADVICE group and we don't like people giving WRONG advice

@Paul ***

you will not be "granted a 60 days visa on arrival" . . .this is complete hogwash. A visa-exempt entry will grant you a stamp that says "admitted until" a date 60 days away from the day of entry. This is a "stay permit" and not a visa, and most of all it is not a "visa on arrival"

@Marty ********

if she entered on a 90-days Non-Imm-O Visa, she doesn't need proof of health insurance for the application to the 1-year extension of the stay permit. Only if she really confused her 365-days Longstay Non-Imm-O/A visa with a Non-O visa, then she has TWO options: either do the border bounce and get another 1-year stay permit stamp of for as long as her existing health insurance is still valid, or apply for the 1-year extension (which would require a Thai private tgia-listed health insurance)

@Yeo *********

and watch your wording: if you entered on a 90-days Non-Imm-O visa, you were stamped in for a 90-days stay permit. The visa itself expired/became invalid upon entry! You are In Thailand on a "stay permit". And the only thing Immigration will "extend for one year", is the stay permit you are on. You can apply for the "1-year extension of temporary stay permit based on retirement" up from 30 days left on the 90-days stay permit stamp. You need to fulfill the financial requirements (either bank letter proof of a minimum of 800,000 THB in your Thai bank account since 2 months, or an embassy certified "income addidavit" over a monthly minimum of 65,000 THB income)

@Yeo *********

you can only get a yellow housebook once the building is finished and a blue housebook has been issued. The yellow housebook is just a subsidary for a foreigner for the lack of being able to get mentioned in a blue housebook

@Terry **********

there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong with my advice. Pray tell me WHERE I am wrong. With the 2000 Baht fee, Maxim meant the fee for the "change of visa type" inside Thailand. You made clear that you didn't have this option if you entered visa exempt . . . All I did was countering the WRONG assumption of Maxim when he said "Yes, but you were able to obtain a 90 Days Non-O without proof of funds in Vientiane, which is a miracle." . . .It is no miracle because you can use any of your bank accounts anywhere in the World for this application. Maxim was wrong in some other assumptions, too

@Maxim **********

NO he could NOT HAVE gotten the visa for 2000 Baht, because for this you need to prove Immigration the funds are sitting in a THAI bank account. He didn't have a Thai bank account at this point! Funds in an Australian bank account cannot be used on Immigration for a "change of visa type" to an initial 90-days Non-O visa

@Maxim **********

for the application to a Non-Imm-O Visa by the E-visa system of the Thai embassy in Laos, you can show a 400,000 THB deposit ON ANY BANK ACCOUNT ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD as long as the account is in your sole name

@Rachelle *******

none of the aforementioned from you account holders have lost one single Satang 😅😄 You are off-topic. Irregularities with holders names, SIM-card discrepancies etc, opening a bank account on a tourist visa - all these reasons have absolutely nothing to do with the question of the threadstarter. Your money IS SAFE and this is GUARANTEED to up to one million Baht by the Thai government

For the application to the initial 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa in the e-visa system inside the USA, you can use your original proofs of income.

However as the US embassy in Bangkok no longer issues an income affidavit, this means that for the application to the 1-year extension of the stay permit, your only option in the first year is to deposit a minimum of 800,000 THB in your Thai bank account. On the day of the application to the 1-year extension, the 800,000 THB must have sat in your Thai bank account for a minimum of 2 months and you need to prove this with the bank letter that confirms it

When you apply for the second yearly extension, you can use the income method, as long as you have deposited a minimum of 65,000 THB into your Thai bank account for the last 12 consecutive months, month for month.

For this application, you will need to show a 12-months bank statement that also proves that the money was transferred from abroad, month for month