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

Is there a easy way to find out which particular offices accept 40k instead of the standard 56k income? Also, are you speaking regarding retirement visas in addition to a marriage visa, or only marriage visas? Thanks a bunch!

Its around, typically at 4 times the USA prices, and all I have seen myself is 3 mg dosages.

FINALLY.......a piece of good news in this shit-storm I am enduring! Ha Ha!

Many thanks as always!

@Brandon ***********

Mr Thurkettle, sorry to bug you so much, but I have a related question. You know something of my ongoing Thai retirement visa saga-quest. I have been in Thailand since December utilizing different visas, all in the belated quest to get a retirement visa.

I have used one land border crossing in this quest already. I am going to Cambodia on my second land-border crossing tomorrow.

My question is: do you think it would be a good idea to have the paperwork, etc you mentioned in the previous post just to make sure I get a 30 day extension, or is that fairly automatic without backing paperwork?

I am going with a agents visa run service to the same small border crossing in Cambodia. I currently am on a 30 day medical extension.

Thank you so much!

@Brandon ***********

WOW! You are a wealth of knowledge and a great help! I sure do appreciate it. I am sure you are helping many others along with me with this post. Thank you!!

@Brandon ***********

Mr Thurkettle, I have a related question for you since you are knowledgeable on this stuff.

I read somewhere where a person can get a 30 day extension at any immigration office. Not just at his local office. Is that true or a myth please? Thank you!

Brian L. Proffitt Thank you for you misguided input TDS sufferer. You are a peach. Only wrong on 4 out of 4 counts. You are batting a thousand!

@Brandon ***********

Thank you very much for all that excellent info and advice Sir!

Well, here it is Thursday the 24th. I went to the Bangkok Bank and got the paperwork and updates there in order to go to Jomtien Immigration office and apply for the Non-O visa, taking my astute Thai GF with me to help.

It did not work out at all. As many folks here said, they would not process my application due to my 800k deposit not being in the bank for 2 months. Plus the lady looking at my application got real shitty and very loud with me.

When I realized she was turning me down in speaking to my GF, I mentioned to her that only the Jomtien office requires that seasoning before the initial application, and that the rest of the immigration offices require it when the one year extension is applied for at a later date. That the 90 da visa is what gives a applicant the time needed to season the bank account. I could be wrong in that, but that is what I told her.

She then started practically screaming at me that all immigration offices require that when the visa is first applied for. Then she hollered at me that I must cross a border and come back in. I then responded that I could not get a 90 day visa on a border bounce, and then I adked her if she sees I am barely able to walk (due to my recent double knee replacement), and how does she expect me to do that make such a trip? She acted like I just shot her dog in front of her. Hollering at me in English and my Thai GF in Thai (who did not deserve such abuse).

She put on a helluva scene, while during the entire time I spoke at normal volume levels and with a neutral tone. So much for the old saw about Thais not showing their asses in public, especially in regards to not dipaying high levels of anger with a very loud voice.

She then (while fuming) made a big display of making another copy of my passport and taking it and writing on it some large letters in Thai and uderlining it twice with about 400 lbs of pressure on her pen.

She then told us to go and she left he office practically running over my crippled ass and I see she ran to a young clerk and started gestering wildly at that copy of my passport and giving her forceful instructions in Thai. I would guess she put me on some kind of blacklist of falongs that are troublemakers. Who knows? What a B*TCH in my book in any case.

SO, can you offer some advice as to what to do now? My 30 day medical extension expires on June 18th.

What would you say about my going to Bangkok and rent a place and get a appropriate TM3O and certificate of residency and or landlord ownership form, and apply at a Bangkok Immigration office? Should they not give me the 90 day Non O visa, and THEN let me present my bank papers having the 2 month money seasoning with my application for the one year extension?

Is that an option?

If not, I am inclined to go to the Thai embassy at Vientiane, Laos and apply there for the 90 day Non O visa. How us that for an option? They would not require 2 months bank deposit seasoning, right? Then obtain my one year extension at some point later in Thailand at a some other place other than Jomtien? Think that is a workable option?

If not, what may be another option?

Thanks a bunch!@

Bring a copy. Take a photograph of it too. Easy. Much better to bring it and not need it than to need it and not bring it.