Thank you for the report.

This is the reason why we always tell members to get the latest requirements list from your local immigration office. Always there is possibility of detailed requirements changes.

Yes, you will be overstay if you stay longer than your current entry stamp, even for 1 day. What let you stay inside Thailand legally is entry or permit-to-stay stamp, not the visa itself.

You do nothing for just moving out from Thailand regarding immigration matters. No notification, anything.

Just unnecessary additional: You can get a re-entry permit if you thing you will visit Thailand again before May 2025 to keep your current stamp alive. If no plan to travel soon, no need to get it either.

@Robin ****************

, overstay fee would be waived if less than 24 hours at the departure airport, but you still get the stamp mentioning overstay.

@Lo***

, you have to wait at least 2 weeks depending the office. Bangkok, Phuket, a few more accept tourism extension when your stamp remaining 45 days or less. Most when less than 30 days. But Pattaya, Samui, and a few others accept tourism extension application only in the last week of your stamp.

60-day counts from the arrival date as day 1. That's correct stamp.

Depending on your passport nation, you may be able to apply for 30 days tourism extension at the local immigration office if you want.

Q. Can a 12 month retirement visa be applied for in either UK or Thailand??

It depends on what exactly you mean by "retirement visa" whether available in UK or Thailand.

What you can apply for is:

- Non-OA (long-stay/retirement) that is valid for 1 year and gives you up to 365 days for entry, at the Thai Embassy in UK

- Non-O based on being over 50 (retirement/pensioner) that is valid for 90 days and gives you 90 days for entry, at the Thai Embassy in UK. You have to apply for a 1-year extension after.

- Non-O based on being over 50 (retirement/pensioner) that gives you 90 days for entry, at the local immigration office in Thailand. You have to apply for a 1-year extension after.

Q. Does one only have to confirm possession of the required finance ? Or must it be deposited in a Thai bank on the first year of obtaining the visa

You can use proof of income for visa application in UK. You need to have money in a Thai bank account in your name for a visa application inside Thailand or extension applications.

Here is a very rough comparison of retirement visas. You need to check again the detailed requirements at the Thai embassy in London website.

Depends on what you want to do when your current extension ends.

If you just leave, no need to transfer stamps. Bring and present both passports (along with the embassy letter IF your embassy issued one with your new passport) at passport control at the departure airport. You will be stamped out on your new passport.

If you are applying in-country visa, you have to transfer your stamps first. You go to the exact immigration office where you applied for a 30-day tourism extension in whatever province you did.

You can check your extension stamp to see which immigration office issued your extension.

Unfortunately, there is no "short-term" extension available for Non-Immigrant-based visas/extensions including retirement.

60-day visiting Thai family extension is the only possible extension for less than one year to a Non-Immigrant-based visa or extension. Unless you have a legal and immediate Thai family in Thailand, you cannot apply for it.

@Nga *************

, yes, correct.