@Matthew ********

I love to correct all that wrong wording. Will you go knock out my teeth now? 😂😅😂

Joni1828 he has to make sure the re-entry permit was bought for the new one-year extension, and not for the still valid 90-days stay permit, by looking at the re-entry permit stamp. It should be valid until the same date as his one-year extended stay permit

@Ian *******

he doesn't have a visa extension. You cannot extend a visa, this is technically not possible. . . . He's got an extension of the stay permit for one year. He said he bought ("processed") a re-entry permit for this one-year extension. So everthing is cool - he can leave before the extension starts, and after it has started, he can use the re-entry permit on his next entry into Thailand, if he re-enters within the one-year period of his extended stay permit.

@Kevin *************

as I said before your MIL s income is irrelevant. She needs $25,000 in a thai bank account, and she would end up being in a tropical country without health insurance

@Kevin *************

"My mother in law makes her own money " . .her income is irrelevant. She needs a Thai bank deposit of a minimum of 800,000 THB to qualify for the retirement extension, and can't touch that deposit

@Walter *********

for an application to the 1-year extension based on being married to a Thai wife, you need the marriage registered inside Thailand because you need the marriage registry printout on Immigration. If you got married outside of Thailand, you must get your marriage acknowledged in Thailand first. Immigration offices do not accept the rose bordered marriage certificate as proof (because you theoretically could be divorced)

@Robert *******

you have been VERY lucky because when the agent removed the funds after you got issued the 1-year extension. You violated the requirements for the upkeep of the deposit, which theoretically put you into "overstay" at the very moment the agent removed the funds. You can call yourself REALLY LUCKY. The Korat Immigration seems to be a bunch of jolly fellows meaning to do no harm to you. You violated a few rules and got away with it. All I can say is a loud and clear WOW!

@Jimmy *******

there are no new rules regarding the METV. You get stamped in for 60 days on every entry within the 6-month visa validity period. You can extend each 60-days stay permit for 30 more days for 1900 THB. You can exit and re-enter as many times as you wish because the METV comes with a multi re-entry permit. There is no limit of two land border entries on a METV - it doesn't matter if you enter Thailand by land, air or sea

you got shafted 2000 Baht 😂 welcome on the merry-go-round

I get mine on the same day. I use a provincial Immigration and they are very effective. The 1-year extension, a 90-days report and a single re-entry permit, everything done and dusted on the same day within 25 minutes. I never had to wait, I was always asked to sit down across the officer after I entered. Been doing it since 17 years. That's the advantage using a countryside Immigration. When we lived on Jomtien Beach for 2.5 years, I never registered TM30 there in order to avoid Jomtien Immigration, I remained registered upcountry as the application fell into New Year and I love to spend it with the family