@Robert ******

seeing as a DTV is a FIVE YEAR visa it's a long wait for it to cancel and some consulates will not issue a new visa while you still have a valid multi-entry visa 🙁

Unless I'm mistaken you have to cancel the DTV thru the consulate you bought it thru, they have to go into the system and cancel it because they issued it

the Immigration office at Chaengwattana can't cancel a visa issued by a consulate outside the country

You MIGHT go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office out there at the government complex because they run the consulates scattered around the world and might know how you could cancel a DTV

@Philip *********

the 90 day reporting/TM30/Certificate of Residence room at the main immigration office at Chaengwattana is actually on the THIRD floor 😮

the first floor has the banks/7 Eleven, food court, coffee shop,

the second floor has the immigration office

the third floor has the 90 day / TM30 room

I am doubtful you're actually on ANY Non-Imm visa 😮

It's far more probable you're on a yearly extension based on marriage to a thai that you got from the immigration office, look at your current stamp and see if it says "extension of stay permitted until" and has a date. If it does you're NOT here on a Non-O anything you're here on an extension FROM an original Non-O

If you are changing from marriage extension to retirement extension when your next extension is due you just need to get the documentation together and apply for retirement not marriage this next time

OR

If you're changing the reason because you're getting divorced you can go early and cancel your current extension and apply for a new one based on retirement right then

You should GO to your office and get the hand out they have listing what the requirements are at the office you use.

This is a GENERAL list of the requirements for a retirement extension it is not office specific.

Yep, the reason for your extension <- in your case your thai wife HAS to be there with you when you apply for the extension,

she doesn't when you go back to get the extension inked in after the 21 day under consideration stamp runs down though, so just one visit there with you

I would say without her you're not gonna get the extension 😮

Anonymous participant 180 my advice to you is to stick with what you know, and here's a hint it's not anything to do with 90-day reporting on a DTV..

Anonymous participant 180 this is total b/s

Last week a DTV holder arriving to CNX from KL was taken out of immigration line and queried about DTV stay. She had stayed months before flying out, and they asked if she did 90 day report. She had not, and they referred her to the airport immigration office where she had to pay the fine.

Check with Chiang Mai Visa Run they used to go to the Lao border in Chiang Khong 3-4 times a week from Chiang Mai

They will know if these changes to visa exempt entries are affecting people who hold valid visas too or not

They should be fine flying in visa exempt. You said they'll have their TDAC filed, have proof of onward travel that they're leaving, they're not staying the full 60 days they will get stamped in for and they were only here one other time this year visa exempt.

That should not raise any flags with the officers at passport control

The re-entry permit counters at both Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi are open and there's no issue getting a re-entry permit from there before you leave

You don't need any documents IF you are not averse to paying 200baht extra above the price of the re-entry, you just need your passport 🙂 (single re-entry 1200, multiple re-entry 4000)

Now if that is too steep a price to pay for no documents needed re-entry, you can make a copy of your PDF visa, your entry stamp, the data page of your passport and have a filled out TM8 application for re-entry permit with a passport sized photo stuck to it (single re-entry 1000, multiple re-entry 3800)

I am questioning WHY you would want a multiple entry re-entry permit because the permit itself is only going to be good for the 90 days you're stamped in on now.. (it won't add any time to your current stamp, just let you back in on the same expiration date)

So unless you're going to travel out/in several times during this 90 days don't waste the money for the multiple re-entry. Get that AFTER you get the year extension inked in at the immigration office