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

@Mathew *******

you are confused, the O/P is NOT on a valid VISA, they are here on an extension of stay and even WITH a re-entry permit there's no issue going out of the country to get a DTV

Many MANY people have done exactly that <- left the country with a valid ED extension gotten their DTV and came back without any issue at all

@Christine ********

The school can't do it without him sitting there at the immigration office as the extension is in his passport

So what that means is that's the day you need to have your ducks in a row by because you need to go with him to immigrations on that date and cancel your extension too <- you lose your extension the same day the primary visa/extension holder loses theirs because yours is piggy backed to theirs

@Christine ********

you are getting yearly extensions of stays that match the primary visa/extension holder than.

@Christine ********

look at the stamp in your passpot, it will clearly say in english "extension of stay permitted until" and have a date you're allowed to be here during it

You're not converting anything visa wise 😮

I'd bet dollars to durian you don't have any valid visa 😉 but instead are here on an "extension of stay" based on being the spouse of a foreigner on a legal visa/extension.

All you're doing is a REASON CHANGE from one extension to another

The seasoning requirement on banked money method for extensions of stays based on retirement are "the funds need to be in a thai bank account in your name only for 2 months before you apply for the extension, then the 800K stays in the account for 3 months after the extension is granted and after that the balance can't go below 400K baht the rest of the year

You would get everything ready for the retirement extension (all the documents, bank letter, statement, updated bank book, map, copies, lease TM30, etc) go in cancel your extension based on being a trailing spouse (you might or might not need the primary visa/extension holder with you to cancel the current extension you're on as it's just a piggy back one)

As soon as you cancel the current extension you'd apply for a new yearly extension based on retirement for 1900baht

GO to your immigration office, get the hand out listing the requirements for the extension based on retirement well before you're going to try this change the reason for an extension.

You are far from an idiot 🙂 but with that being said you sure picked a tough immigration office to deal with 😮 🙁

AND

You're probably way ahead just going to Samui and trying

BUT

if it doesn't fly there and you are running out of time just bounce you out and back by land to get a new 180 day stamp (There are services that run almost every day to the border from Samui)

@Richie-Rich *******

𝗡𝗼 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝗼𝗵 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗼 𝗮 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗿𝘂𝗻!

That would lead me to believe that they'd run out of time on their current stamp BEFORE they could get an appt at that renegade office there on the "Island of Misfit Toyz" aka Koh Phangan 😉

For the life of me I don't know why they have it worded that way 😕

You're fine get there within the in person reporting window (up to 7 days after the due date) and you'll be fine (y)