@Darren ********

but well, you were right. And the admin confirmed it. The message attached to the DTV included a hint on how to get off the visa. As I have never had a DTV and just started reading in the DTV Facebook Group as soon as it started, this updated police order was unbeknownst to me

@Darren ********

this is an exception from the rule, called "change of visa type", and only (!!) possible on Immigration inside Thailand. Not possible abroad or in your home country. Refer to the different "changes" on this Immigration website. The DTV is not mentioned under number 9, but an Immigration officer might accept it as the "tourist visa" from out of which he might allow you the "change". Check number 9, it refers to the "90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement visa"

@Michael *******

this makes absolute sense for yet undecided people, you are right

@Edward *******

a woman who played "adviser" here and got removed for posting false info. She mentioned the same nonsense like you, that stuff about a Non-Imm-O/A visa one would be able to get inside Thailand. Which simply is not true, you cannot

@Edward *******

WHAT ARE YOU UP AND ABOUT?? Stop posting nonsense!

You can apply for a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement visa in your home country. There is no mandatory health insurance, no police record, no medical proof.

Once in Thailand, you immediately open a bank account and transfer a minimum of 800,000 THB into it.

Then from up to 30 days before the 90-days stay permit expires, and the money has seasoned for 2 months, you can apply for the "1-year extended stay permit based on retirement".

I cannot recommend you start your longstay in Thailand on a Non-Imm-O/A visa.

You will regret it as soon as after two years, when you need to move from the visa to the extension of stay permit, and that's when they make you contract a worthless but mandatory Thai tgia-listed private health insurance, and that's when you will need 800,000 THB in your Thai bank account anyways.

You are ALWAYS better off to start with a 90-days Non-Imm-O retirement visa you got issued in your home country.

On this visa you can easily open a Thai bank account

Maybe you should use the Thai phrase for the “bank letter of guarantee” to be understood better

It is “rab roong thanakan”, and “for 2 months” is “fai song duean”.

The immigration is the “Tor Mor”. And as Stuart mentioned, and I am doing the same: I keep a colour copy of the "bank letter", so a year later the bank employee can refer to it, they even copy the complete text as was, and they see that the letter must be printed onto an original A4 sheet containing the bank letterhead in colour.

And by the way, you did not “renew my Non-O” . . . you do not have a Non-O visa any more since you used a 90-days Non-Imm-O visa to enter Thailand. The visa itself became invalid upon entry.

You applied for the renewal of your “1-year extended stay permit based on retirement”

@Darren ********

and I am VERY sure you cannot apply for a new visa, unless the visa or the stay permit you are currently on, has been cancelled or made void

@Bent ************

that's BS, it still is show 20,000 THB in cash when asked. That credit card you show could be a fake or not covered at all !!

@Bent ************

HE DOES NOT NEED A VISA as a UK citizen

Bent Sennenwaldt did you miss to read that I told him that he doesn't need a visa, but if he enters after May 1st he needs a TDAC ?