You might want to get the 90 day Non-O visa from the thai consulate in your country before you wing your way here although you will be fine applying for the in country 90 day Non-O with a passport that expires in July 2027.

Your passport will not expire within the time you will get on the Non-O visa OR the year extension (figuring from Aug, that's 90 days so about November 2025, and then a year extension is Nov the following year (2026)

Your passport expires 8 months AFTER that year extension (so you'd renew the passport before you went to get the second year extension Nov of 2026)

@Eric *********

Machine Readable Zone, it's that set of numbers letters on the bottom of the data page of your passport, you scan that and the system auto fills in the data (but it gets it wrong a LOT of the time and if you submit an application with a data entry error it's cancelled and you lose your funds)

𝟭 - 𝗜𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗮?

no there is no medical insurance requirement for a Non-O visa/extension

𝟮 - 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗼 𝗜 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?

You need to "season the funds" in a thai bank account in your name only for 2 months (date to date) before you apply for the yearly extension

𝟯 - 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗱𝗼 𝗜 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗺𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 (𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝘁) 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗳 𝘀𝗼, 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴?

You need to keep the 800K baht in the bank account for 3 months after your yearly extension is granted and after that the balance can't go below 400K for the rest of the year (before you get it back to 800K 2 months before your next yearly extension

You should GO to your immigration office and get the hand out listing the requirements for the yearly extension based on retirement at that specific office well before you're going to go for the extension, that way you know what copies, documents, bank letter, statement, updated bank book, map, photo, etc you need to get together

As a rule extensions are added to the expiration date of your current stamp

The only time an extension isn't added to your current expiration date is if you are getting an extension for a different reason than you have the current visa/extension

In Bangkok you can go 45 days before your current stamp expires to apply for an extension

What stamp are you on now and what extension are you trying to get ?

Anonymous participant right, and that's because Koh Phangan, Koh Samui and Jomtien all tell people who enter on 60 day free stamp OR real 60 day tourist visas to come when they have a week or less left on your stamp

BUT

You aren't here free stamp or on a tourist visa 😮 you have a Destination Thailand Visa and you could have applied for a new extension any time you had 30 days or less left on your entry stamp 🙁

The best way to do it would be to move the stamps to the new passport then file the 90 day report under the new passport number so that the new passport number will be in the 90 day reporting system meaning you can do the following 90 day reports online.

Anonymous participant seeing as an extension is for 180 days (it can't be issued any shorter) they aren't gonna care in the least when you're leaving the country

It's all down to the documentation (which is pretty much a carbon copy of the stuff you used to get the DTV at the consulate AND the proof you have 500K baht in a bank account in your name for a month

Anonymous participant report back if you can on how it goes for you

Best of Luck with it, the DTV extensions are pretty hit-or-miss at immigrations

Anonymous participant 237 you do NOT, there is no "playing with luck and fire"

When you stamp out on an extension (without a re-entry permit) you're "off that extension" <- meaning you can't re-enter on it

AND

That means you CAN buy a new visa to enter thailand on

Anonymous participant 237 many MANY people kept their ED extensions and went to a thai consulate in another country to get a DTV, without any problem what so ever