You wanna go get a DTV at a 'walk in consulate' you use Taipei

OR

you use Savannkhet in Lao (which requires you book an online appt to get in the gate and stops walk in service Dec 20th)

OR

you use Yangon in Burma (which also requires an online appt to get in the gate)

Jakarta is already ON the eVisa website and no longer accepts walk in applications (Since Tuesday the 26th)

If you want to use a 'walk up' consulate in Lao to apply for a visa you need to use the one in Savannakhet Lao (across the river from Mukdahan Province Thailand)

They still have openings until they switch over to the eVisa system on the 20th of Dec

remember they ONLY show 2 weeks of appts at a time, so at 12:01am the next day comes up for appt (two weeks out)

Here's the savannakhet online appt booking

Thank

@Ellie ******

shes the one that reminded me 🙂

you need to get the "standard bank letter" issued by them AND you need to order the year transaction detail report

MOST offices will not take the emailed downloaded from the app print out. They want the ones the bank prints (on that paper with the perforated edges 😮 ) and the bank stamp

I would certainly GO to your immigration office well before you want the extension and ask an officer IF those downloaded/emailed print outs of your own would work because some banks take 3-5 days to get that for you

because you didn't get the visa/extension from that office they can ask for what ever they want to 😮

They are not obligated to sell you a re-entry and can say go back to where you got the extension to get one OR get one at the airport before you fly out

Just as an aside, I have never ever heard of anyone on an OX visa actually getting the in country 5 year extension from the immigration office when their first 5 years runs out 😮

Back in the day when Sydney was handing out those OX's with low requirements, people would just use the first 5 years, then go get another one.

you can log in to the eVisa online system, you can upload all your documents, passport, fill in all the data, leave it in your profile (I think you can store up to 10 applications) and then as soon as you're stamped out of thailand you can log in and submit the application, pay and see what happens

Unless I'm mistaken that was actually the correct date to stamp you in until 😮

IF you exit/re-enter close to the OX expiring you only get stamped in until the VISA itself expires

you have to either go back to your country and get a new OX visa

OR

you have to extend it inside the country with the proof of funds, insurance, etc

OR

You could bounce out/back close to this stamp expiring, come in on a free stamp 60 day entry, then apply in country for the 90 day Non-O visa based on retirement, and after 2 months apply for the year extension <- neither of those require insurance