@Stephen ***********

ONE MORE TIME: you don't have a "visa", if you got the same stamp. You got a stay permit. You got an "extension of the stay permit". A stay permit is not a visa.

@James *******

even the stamp in your passport doesn't mention anything about a "visa extension". It clearly says that you received an "extended stay permit" . . I don't care what stupid lawyers, stupid agent folks and stupid immigration officers pretend to know. I know that what I am saying is 100% correct. I am not willing to accept a technical wrong wording

@James *******

those lawyers, agents, immigration officers and all these people are just stupid. Just struck stupid. There is a difference between a visa and a stay permit. A visa is something with which you enter a country. Upon entering, the visa becomes invalid for further use. You are now inside the country on a stay permit. The duration of the stamped stay permit was determined by the type of visaclass you used for the entry. The 1-year extension of the stay permit must be renewed every year, making it NOT a "visa extension", which is such a stupid wording, but an extension ot the temporary stay permit. Even Hua Hin Immigration is now using the correct wording

@James *******

even some Immigrations discontinued calling it "visa extension". You can technically not extend any visa. You can only extend the stay permit.

@Danny *****

you never ever "renewed my retirement visa". You only applied for the next 1-year Extension of the Stay Permit based on Retirement. You are not on any "retirement visa" anymore. A "visa" technically cannot get extended. For each "1-year extension of the stay permit" you can buy either a single re-entry permit (1000 THB) or a multi re-entry permit (3800 THB) These re-entry permits are valid for the whole duration of your extended stay permit

@Stephen ***********

with regards and thanks to Robert Lagas, who wrote this!

Once more, because people try to give advice based on what they think is a "Retirement Visa"

First of all, you DO not have to be retired to apply for this visa. You however need to be 50 years or older

Second is that all options have DIFFERENT rules, regulations and requirements.

So please read and try not to give incorrect advice by using the requirements for a different type of visa or extension of stay.

What is a retirement visa?

It is a phrase used by foreigners and Immigration and it could be 6 different types of visa or stay permits, with different rules, regulations and requirements

OR

it could even be an 1 year Extension of Stay based on being over 50 years of age and willing to sit out the rest of their life inside Thailand.

It is easy to type “retirement visa”, but very difficult to understand which option the person refers to

Options are:

1. Single Entry Non Immigrant O visa based on being over 50 years of age

2. Multiple Entry Non Immigrant O visa based on being over 50 years of age (it got discontinued by October 2023 and is not available any more)

3. Non Immigrant O visa based on being over 50 years of age without entry by conversion at local immigration office

4. Non Immigrant O-A visa (Long Stay)

5. Non Immigrant O-X visa

6. Long Term Residency (LTR) visa

7. Extension of Stay based on being over 50 years of age and willing to sit out the rest of their life inside Thailand (stamp from Immigration, which is not a visa)

ONLY for options 3, 5 and 7 the applicant needs a bank account in Thailand or a Certificate of Income from their Embassy.

Option 2 cannot be applied for any more, since all Thai Embassies and Consulates took it out of the E-visa program.

Option 3 is applied for by conversion of your Visa Exempt Entry or Tourist Visa at your local Immigration Office inside Thailand.

Option 6 is applied for with support of BOI Thailand

Option 7 is applied for at your local Immigration Office AFTER you used a Non-Immigrant visa.

Other options are applied for at a Thai Consulate OR for those countries who are legit, on-line.

Thanks for reading this long explanation.

@Stephen ***********

I gonna try it one more time: you either have a 12-months EOS with a single re-entry attached and call it wrongly "retirement visa", or you are still on the initial 90 days single entry Non-Imm-O visa. On the visa, you need a re-entry permit, or the 90-days stay permit will expire when you exit Thailand. If you are on the 12-months EOS and bought a single re-entry permit for it for 1000 THB, the stay permit will be kept alive and valid if you leave Thailand for one day

@James *******

there used to be two kinds of "Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa" available, a 90-days single entry type and a 365-days multi entry type. The multi entry type Non-Imm-O got discontinued by October 2023. Right now the only "Retirement Visa" you can apply for is the 90-days single entry Non-Imm-O visa

@James *******

you don't even have a "visa" any more. You are in Thailand on a "1-year extended stay permit" which is based on reason "retirement". And that's what the stamp in your passport says. A stay permit is not a visa. The visa you entered Thailand with expired 12 years ago and you have been inside Thailand on a stay permit since, and not on a visa.

@Stephen ***********

*** if you entered Thailand on a single-entry 90 days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, you received a 90-days stay permit. The stamp will show an expiry date

*** the visa itself expired and became invalid when you entered.

*** if during these 90 days you plan a trip to Laos, you need to buy a re-entry permit for your 90-days stay permit in order to keep it alive when you exit Thailand

***so, when you return to Thailand, you will get stamped in only until the original expiry date you received on your first entry

***the 90-days clock will begin with day number one on the day you re-enter

I suspect you don’t have a “retirement visa” at all . . . you don't even have any visa (bad wording) but you are rather already on a “1-year extension of the stay permit based on retirement” . . but be it as it may, it doesn’t change a Yota of the info I have given you