@Robert ******

you cancel the current extension and immediately apply for a NEW extension for a different REASON <- which is why I call it "changing the reason for an extension" 🙂 I've referred to it for years and years that way

hang about, you say

𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿. 𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗡𝗼𝗻 𝗢 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝗞 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸,

My question to you is WHY would you get a new Non-O visa from the thai consulate in the UK before you come back ?

Why not just change the reason for your current extension from retirement to marriage when it comes due?

What is the advantage of breaking the extension chain and getting a new Non-O visa before?

@Andi **********

some embassies go so far as to issue the people just a 90 day Non-ED visa instead of the DTV when people apply using thai language courses and you lose the difference in the fee from the DTV / 90 day ED

@John *********

they don't push it because what they don't want is people signing up for the program just to get the DTV and then not attend.

It's NOT something they're marketing for at all.

They aren't the "where can I sign up for a cheap soft power DTV course" type of school. They're the real deal.

One more thing

IF you are still going to keep your job you CAN use salary inside thailand as the proof of funds to get the marriage extension. You have to show a minimum of 40K baht a month, for the previous 3 months, you need documents from the company, tax documents, contract, work permit, pay stubs, etc and you'd need a letter from that company saying it's okay for you to go off the Non-B to switch to a marriage extension

Some companies don't want you switching off because they have no control over your visa if you do 😮

when you go to your immigration office to get the documentation for the requirements for the marriage extension ask them what is required if you meet the financials using monthly income by working inside thailand as the method

Last I checked,

@Andi **********

they do now

I think you have to enroll in a minimum of 7 modules

@Lloyd *******

ahh, then you're just meeting the proof of funds using monthly income method by international transfer <- which is totally an ok way to do it 🙂 has nothing at all to do with where who pays you that money, only that you're transferring it in each month, every month for the previous 12 months.

@Des ***

you don't even know how lucky you were 😮 They had NO obligation to let you in on a re-entry permit from the old extension (whether it had expired or not it was tied to the OLD extension and you were on a new one)

They could have told you that you get in free stamp 60 days and start all over from scratch with a new Non-O, then they year 2 months later.

You really lucked out getting stamped in on that new extension with the old re-entry permit. 🙂

@Lloyd *******

boy that has to be a Nakhon Nowhere backwater office because unless you come from a country whose embassy issues the income affidavit notary NO immigration office (that I know of) is allowing proof of foreign income without transferring that money in every month for the previous 12 months no matter what proof you have. .. 😕

@Robert ******

and how was that anything different than what I said? 🙂

You CAN change the reason for an extension inside the country by cancelling the one you're on and applying for a new one for a different reason 😉