@Klaus *********

There’s nothing to check. A visa is valid from the date of issue. If you apply for a 6 month visa 3 months ahead of time then you’ll just waste 3 months of its validity.

Depending of the consulate or embassy you use then check their normal turn around times.

For example London is about 3-5 days. LA is about 10 days. France or Germany is about 3 years. (Well ok that last one is a bit of an exaggeration but it feels like that for those that use them).

You have a retirement visa. You’re asking for an agent to do an extension? If you have the funding DIY for 1,900 baht.

No embassies allow walk in applications anymore. It’s all done online.



In Laos you do go in person to pay for the application after everything has been submitted online.

@Craig ********

That’s probably something you’d need to ask them. Their rules, their process.

Trying to apply logic is futile.

@Andrew *******

99% (a figure made up by me) of people entering Thailand visa exempt are not asked to show funds.

In theory you could be one of the 1%. Better odds than a coin toss that you won’t be though.

@Alex ********

No.

You don’t need to do anything from an initial Non B. It will cancel itself when you leave.

If you were on an extension of stay off of the initial Non B then you’d need to cancel that extension, but you aren’t so no issues.

@Mark *******

Yes. I’m a moderator of this site. That means I see posts from lots of people about current happenings now. I see what they are posting now. I see there is a huge difference to what posts were like 2 years ago to what they are 2 weeks ago.

I may not know as much as I think I know but I can read.

You have experience of opening a bank account two years ago. With a wife that works in a bank. How many others have that advantage?

Can’t really see the relevance that that would have in today’s world. But obviously you think you know best so let’s just leave it at that.

@Mark *******

Then she would have been able to tell you that what you managed to do two years ago is completely irrelevant to what you can do now.

I guess she KNOWS but hasn’t informed you yet.