@Jay ******

i’ve not done it, but I have had friends who have I believe you start depositing your 65K as soon as you get your first non o approved so next year when it is time for your next Ext, you should have 12 monthly payments

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@Kevin *******

no such thing as a digital arrival exemption visa. The the digital arrival card and visas are two completely separate things one has nothing to do with the other. Please try to get your facts straight before you answer questions to someone who is inquiring.

@Hartmut *******

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@Mark *******

if that’s the way you wanna look at it financially strictly up to you. The agent is making 20% on his 80,000 in only five months not a bad rate of return. I’d be interested to know what rate of return you’ll be getting on your 80,000 in order to save the 1900 that it would cost you with Immigration.

@Frank *********

not if you don’t have the money for the bank.

@Stuart ********

I agree with you, Stuart 99.9% of the time, but for the Ext based on marriage is quite a bit more of a hassle than just the Non o based on retirement. With the non-O based on marriage You have to go through the house to visit. You have to have photographs of you and the family where you live. You have to have photographs of you and your wife standing in front of the house number on your home. You have to go through the 30 day under consideration. And you can’t get your stamp until they come to your house, unless they tell you there is no need for a home inspection, that hasn’t happened to me yet after four extensions .Then after the inspection you go back to immigrations for your extension stamp sometimes, they will show up on day 29. I even had him come on day 30. I’ve never had them come out to the house more than two or three days before the 30 day under consideration is over. The under consideration time

Does not add any time to your Extension. The biggest hassle is you have to pretty much block the entire 30 days and be within a day from your home because you never know when they’re gonna call and tell you they’re coming. My friends who get their Ext in HuaHin,I don’t know which office, they tell me they walk in with their paperwork file for the Ext and get it approved. Maybe they’re just trying to make me feel bad because I’m getting an extension based on marriage.

@Barney **************

he doesn’t need one if he is traveling on a Non oh Visa. No further travel proof required.

I also live in Texas. There are two or three Royal Thai Consulate listed in Googgle but they all have been closed all visa applications if you live in Texas are submitted online to the Royal Thai Embassy in Washington DC

You have 90 days to use the visa that you receive. Once you get to Thailand, you will be stamped in for 90 days. so you would have 30 days to get your money in the bank and to be properly seasoned before you apply for your Extension