@Colin *****

there is no 3-months Tourist Visa.

If you mean the 60-days Tourist visa, which can be extended on Immigration ONCE for 30 more days, summing up to 90 days stay, then you should note the following advice:

The 60 Days tourist visa is a “SINGLE ENTRY” category tourist visa.

This means you can only enter Thailand ONE TIME and receive 60 says “stay permit”

Theoretically, you could buy a re-entry permit for 1000.- Baht, which would keep your 60 days stay permit alive, if you left Thailand and re-enter during the period of these 60 days.

The question is, will this make sense or not? Will it be fit to your travel plans?

You can stay the first 60 days, then leave Thailand, have a holiday in a neighbouring country and re-enter “visa-exempt”. This will give you 30 days stay permit, which you can extend on Immigration for 1900.- THB for 30 more days.

After this your options are limited, theoretically you can add one more 30 days “visa-exempt” entry by doing a ”border run”

@Derek *********

This has nothing to do with the application o immigration. This depends on if the Thai embassy/consulate of your home country, accepts an income which is NOT derived from a pension. For a proof using the 12-month bank statement on the immigration in Thailand, any kind of income is accepted. The source is irrelevant. You actually could install an money transfer caroussell, if ya know what I mean

@Derek *********

no. You need accumulated monthly entries into your Thai bank account, month for month, within a period of 12 consecutive months. And the bank must issue a "letter of guarantee" over exactly these 12 month of transactions

I simply checked your profile. As a German citizen, you can use the affidavit proof of income from the German embassy in Bangkok (only Americans, English and Australians have to use the 12-month bank receipt proof)

ya gotta wait until you turn 50

@Michael ************

maybe it was not so easy for you to understand: if you already have an Extension of Stay Retirement, and the 800,000.-THB fall short within the first 3 months after getting issued the extension, you will be in overstay, that's what I essentially meant

@Michael ************

„when the money gets short“ ? . . how are we to understand it, as that’s a critical question.

Remember, in order to maintain a “retirement extension” by a deposit method, you are supposed to keep the 800,000.- Baht in the account for 3 months after being issued the extension, and during the rest of the year the money mustn’t go under 400,000.- Baht.

As long as “when the money gets short” doesn’t mean that you are violating this rule, you can always during the one year of the extension, change the reason from retirement to marriage.

However keep in mind: should you violate the rule at one point or the other, you are in overstay from that moment on.

@Phil ******

correct

@Frank *************

ah, okay. That's why I didn't find any comments related to the questions

@Frank *************

I found two posts with the same questions, but no replies or comments to them so far . . . .