Mine was for a marriage, not retirement so maybe it’s different

I just went there and got type O visa I did not need any police records or criminal history. I use a visa agent. They also had an office  there so their agent was able to get my Visa in five days and I was flying back to Thailand. I opened a bank account a week later.

@Jan *****************

I totally agree with you

@Mica ********

if you’re in Thailand already you’ll have to leave and go to another country to get the Type O visa.  I want to Loas  because my visa agent had an office there.  Then when you come back  the visa I think it’s called a residency  document. You only have 90 days to get your money in the bank season it for two months and then get your  retirement visa.  that’s how it worked for me anyway.

@David *********

I highly recommend using a visa agent. It saved me a lot of headaches. They had all the paperwork ready. It was amazing. I was able to go open my bank account in a short amount of time other people that were open in bank accounts without all the paperwork that was prepared for me by the Visa agent spent a long time getting the account open.

He needs it in a bank from his country to get the type of visa but once he gets here to get the retirement visa, he needs to have it in a Thai bank. For my marriage visa I have to have it in for two months. I just started that two monthsMonday that’s per my visa agent.

@Peter *******

you’re right they almost didn’t let me back in when I did it the third time

@Susan *******

I’m using a Visa agent. There’s no way I ever would’ve figured it out on my own. Last week I had to go to Laos  for a week. The visa agent had an office there they were able to get my Non O visa.  in four days so I only had to be  there for five days.

 I had to show three months of bank statements with my balance over $1000.

 now I’m back in Thailand and tomorrow I go to the visa agent to fill out a residency document. It’ll take a week to get my residency document back from the government after that I can open a Thai bank account.

@Doug ******

I just went through this last week.  to get the Non 0 visa  I had to leave Thailand and go to Laos.  I had to show three months of bank statements with my account balance over $1000. There was a couple days where it dropped below 1000, but they were still able to make it work.

 I also had to show that I had the ฿400,000 for my marriage visa in my US bank account

@Lynnette ******

yes since I was already in Thailand, I had to go to Laos  to get my typo visa. Actually I’m at the airport. Getting ready to fly back to Thailand right now. It took four days once I was in Laos  to get my non 0 visa.

On a sidenote, it was crazy how much food and things in Luang Prabang cost.  in the tourist area was five times higher cost than the  tourist area of Chiang Mai