@Ian *******

he must have entered around October 10-13, because he said he opened a Kasikorn account by October 14. This would mean that if he entered on October 12, the 90-days report due date would be January 11. By December 29, he would have had already spent 77 days in Thailand. So, since you can do your first 90 days report up from 15 days before due date, Immigration honored his visit as a valid 90-days report (due date being 13 days away). Or maybe he entered between October 5 and 10, then the due date would be even nearer to December 29

thank you,

@Kim ********

for your true words

@Gregory ********

Kim Nielsen confirmed:

“Nothing to do with being a nerd wanting correct terminology.

Yeah the barstool says “we are on a retirement visa” but that does not mean the visa is extended - a visa is an entry permission and is used or void when you entered, and replaced with a permission to stay.

Just a side note: he TM7 is called extension of stay - not extension of visa.

I would feel happy to get corrected if I used a word wrong.

But well, some like to learn and some - the likes of YOU - close their ears and refuse to learn”

@Gregory ********

everybody who has a one-year extension based on retirement, who exits Thailand and re-enters using a re-entry permit, will get stamped "Non-RE" into the visaclass. RE not meaning retirement but RE-entry permit

@Gregory ********

it says Non-RE in the right upper corner under "visaclass" - "RE" because I used a re-entry permit for my one-year extended stay permit when I entered and because my 1-year stay permit is based on a Non-Imm visaclass that has expired 17 years ago 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Gregory ********

😂😂😂😂😂😂 no you don't have any visa if you are on an extended stay permit

@Roberto *****

you should be able to get your first one-year extension based on the 12-months bank statement. If you haven't missed out any single month and if all transfers are coded as having come from abroad, I do not see why you would not succeed

@Gregory ********

just another example of improper wording used by Immigration. And what does this stamp say, it is the one year extension, is there ANY notion of it being a visa? 😂

@Gregory ********

The single entry 90-days Non-O visa expires or becomes invalid, when you enter Thailand on it.

You get a stay permit of 90 days stamped into your passport.

And before this stay permit expires, you apply for the one-year extension of the stay permit based on the same reason the visa was originally issued for

A visa cannot get extended, a visa only allows entry into a country and cannot get extended after it has been used for an entry

@Jan *****************

I understand what you meant . . . . . . I just hope he checked the expiry date of the re-entry permit to make sure it wasn't bought for the still existing 90-days stay permit but for the duration of the newly issued one-year extension of stay