Correct, if you get the year long, multi-entry Non-Immigrant Type OA (Long Stay) visa when you enter thailand you'll be stamped in for a year (or as long as your mandatory insurance is valid for up to a year) and you will only need to do 90 day reports (IF you're inside thailand 90 continuous days 🙂 )

Tony Handleythere is no requirement to keep the 400k bank money method in the account after the marriage extension is given.

The only seasoning requirement for that is that it's in the account two months before you apply for the extension

@Rok *******

pull the balance down to 400k for SURE so that there's no way they can use banked money method for this up coming extension

Your mistake was having BOTH the 800K still in the bank and having done a year of transfers of 65K baht a month. You have no idea what method the officer used when you got the extension you're on now

You can't tell if they used the monthly income method by transfer OR if they used the fact you'd banked the 800K 🙁

AND

sadly, it is my experience when people meet BOTH forms of proof of funds the immigration office usually picks banked money method 😮

SO you'd have to have the 800K in the bank for 3 months after this last extension (where you don't know what method was used) was granted and then you could drop it to 400K <- which will make SURE they couldn't use banked money next year when you get the new extension and you can for sure use the monthly income method

@Rok *******

banked money method via international transfers for yearly extension still are accepted at all immigration offices

𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗹 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲????

Nope there is no way to cancel an METV online. You'd have to get ahold of the issuing consulate, and they can cancel it in the system (usually takes 5 - 7 days once you get a hold of them)

Now if you mean can you do it via the inter-web by contacting the thai consulate that issued it and having them cancel it in the system <- YES that can be done but it's a LOT of hoop jumping.

@Graeme ******

i cannot figure out why any office wouldn't accept proof of funds for an extension based on marriage using 40k a month via international transfers. People married to thaiz often work abroad and there's no reason they couldn't use that income to meet the proof of funds.

It is one of those things that have no rhyme or reason that I can work out other than some offices just won't do it.. .Which in and of itself is strange

@Mike *****

everyone gets their paperwork sent to bangkok, that's why you get a 30 day under consideration stamp. that isn't the reason you can use the 40K baht a month by transfer to get your extensions based on marriage.

Good you can still do it, and as I said dunno why other offices stopped doing it.

@Graham *****

there is no official rule change, it's just some offices don't allow it at all 🙁 dunno why, nothing in the rules says you can't, 🙁

@Sean *********

which would ONLY apply if the person used banked money method for the extension they're on.

They did not they used monthly income method and the requirements to get a yearly extension via that method are to bring in a minimum of 65k each month, every month for the previous 12 months BEFORE they applied for their extension.

Once they did that and got the extension IF they were going to switch methods of proof of funds they are under no obligation to transfer in another baht or bank 800k until 2 months before they would apply for the following extension

@Chuck ********

if you're going from banked money method to monthly income you would indeed meet BOTH seasoning requirements, for the extension you're on now with banked money, AND for the next extension you'd get with monthly income