He received a 90-days admitted stay permit stamp upon entry, based on a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa he got issued outside of Thailand.

This red stamp itself is not a visa. This stamp is a 90-days stay permit you get stamped when you enter Thailand on a 90-days Non-Imm-O visa.

The stamp just indicates the “admitted until” length of stay – here 90 days - based on entering on a single entry 90-days Non-Imm-O visa.

The visa itself, when he entered Thailand, has changed its status to USED and is not valid anymore.

The visa got issued in the shape of a .pdf document which got mailed to the applicant by the processing Thai embassy. You could print out the visa document and show it

The entry stamp just indicates the admitted length of stay (90 days) based on the single entry Non-Imm-O visa, but it clearly says on which visa-class you entered in the upper right corner

Some bank clerks just are too lazy or don’t have the slightest idea how to service foreigners who want to open a Thai bank account. They will often invent any rules or excuses in order to get rid of you.

@Dave *******

there is only one agent in Bangkok who claims they can still open a Thai bank account for people who entered on a touristic entry. The downside is, they only do it if you buy their complete package: the "change of visa type" to the initial 90-days Non-Imm-O visa, and the subsequent 12-months extension of the stay permit. Their price is 55,000 THB

@Dave *******

you cannot "switch" from a touristic entry to a Non-O visa without already having a Thai bank account and already holding 800,000 THB in it. As you can't open a Thai bank account on a touristic entry anymore, the answer is NO, you can't

@Bethel ******************

that's cool if they gave you the Log-in and the password so you can TM30 all your guests

@Bethel ******************

if YOU are the landlord, you can register her TM30. If you just have rented a house, the landlord has to register your Mom TM30

@Nikki ******

if you need to leave the country in order to apply for a visa in a neighbouring country, you could maybe leave your dog in the care of a temple or a private person or a dog shelter . .google for addresses near you

@Timothy ******

at the Suvarnabhumi Airport, the re-entry desk is in "Departure 2" after the security check but yet before the Immigration counters . .

@Magnus ********

Magnus Nilsson

Terminology is important

*** you do not get your „visa extended”. You are applying for a 1-year extension of your stay permit. You are not on a “visa” any more, you are in Thailand on a “stay permit”.

This stay permit needs to be re-applied for every year

*** you forgot to mention the most crucial part that comes with being on a 1-year Extension of Stay, out of a former Non-Imm-O/A visa: The health insurance

Immigration will make it mandatory for you to have a health insurance with one of the private Thai insurance companies that are listed on the so called “tgia-list of insurances”

*** Immigration will issue the 1-year Extension of Stay Permit only for as long as the insurance is valid, so you should make sure the insurance carries you through a full year, beginning on the first day of the new Extension of Stay Permit

@George ******

true. But they could also get their extensions based on income, if they were not British, US Americans or from Australia. The crux is, the British Embassy as well as the US and AUS embassy in Bangkok does not issue any more"income affidavits". That's why your british mate needs to use the 400,000 THB deposit method

@George ******

I suggest you visit Immigration and ask them about your options