@Peter ******

WATCH your wording: if he leaves AFTER 90 days, he will be on overstay. He must leave BEFORE the 90-days stay permit expires

@Abey ********

I hope you are aware that misusing visa exempt entries or tourist visa, for a longstay in Thailand, will eventually get you denied entry at the border. As long as you don't try to enter visa-exempt multiple times during a 365-days period, you should be fine. But you cannot use visa-exempt entries in a consecutive manner

@Ossie ********

why oh why would he need DTV? He is aiming to get a Thai bank account opened. He can do so on a 90-days Non-Imm-O visa. But he cannot get a bank account opened on a DTV, because the DTV is a tourist-visa type

@Michael ******

a visa-exempt entry is NOT a tourist visa. It is just a "touristic entry"

@Abey ********

no, you are not being forced to apply for an extension of the stay permit. You can leave Thailand any time before the 90-days stay permit is expired. And the guy who told you that your Thai bank account would be closed if you enter visa-exempt at a later date, is absolute hogwashed. Once you have opened the account while you were on a Non-Imm-O Longterm Visa, the account will remain active and open in the future, regardless on which visa you enter the country

@Andrew *********

yes you can. You can also use and get issued a multi entry 6-months tourist visa every other year - if you just stay away from Thailand for 5 to 6 x months within the 365-days period.

Andrew Campbell . . . when an Immigration official checks your touristic entries, he will check your entry history within the recent 365-days period. He does NOT calculate by calendar year

@Andre **********

it used to be two months for the first application, and 3 months for all other applications after. But the rules got changed in 2019. Now they do not make any difference if it is your first extension or a follow-up one. It's 800,000 in your Thai bank account for two months, and must remain at 800,000 for 3 months after the extension has been issued. THIS is the 2019 police order!

@Heidi *******

as British citizens, you cannot use the 12-months income financial statement for the 1-year extension in Thailand. You need a minimum of 800,000 THB in your Thai bank account in the first year. And that's EACH of you. If one of you wants to apply for the "trailing spouse Non-Imm-O visa" which has no financial requirements, then the London embassy probably will require the husband to be on a 1-year Non-Imm-O/A visa. You will have to ask them via email

Gerald Wilkes

The day number 90 after your entry would be July 11. (It’s easy to calculate as the one-year extension begins on July 12 - the day after the expiry of your 90-days stay permit when you entered on a Non-Imm-O visa)

***Normally your visit on Immigration on July 2 could be looked at as being an early 90-days report (9 days early)

***but since the due date is July 11, your next report should be on November 10

*** Instead, they stamped November 16 as the next due date. I bet they just set the stamp roller wrongly – a “6” instead of a “0”. Still wrong, but this is Thailand.

Whenever I show up at Immigration to apply for the yearly extension, I chose a date that is within a 14 days period until the expiry of the previous extension.

Immigration will always give me a new 90-days report slip and count the 90-days from the day I visited them for the EOS application.

***In your case it would mean they count the next 90 days from July 2 onward, that would make November 1 the next due date.

I have no idea where they dug out the extra 15 days

Actually since the real due date is July 11, the 90th day after your entry, your next report should be on November 10

So it still is wrong. I reckon they mistakenly set the stamp roller to “6” instead to “0”