@Justin ********

You do not need to season the funds to get an O-visa. Seasoning is only required for extensions, and note that the required period is two months - not 60 days.

For O-visa (retirement) the 800,000 baht must have been brought on from overseas.

You need two weeks left on your current stay (three weeks if applying in Chiang Mai and perhaps some other provinces).

Visa exempt is extendable as it always has been. There is definitely no need for an agent.

@James **********

"Leave space after passport number" .... could you please explain what you mean?

That would requires a lot of training for immigration officers and cause a lot of congestion at immigration arrivals.

Also note that for O-visa(retirement) the 800,000 baht must have come from overseas.

@David ******

And the money has to be in the account on the day you apply for the visa too. Please note this

@Marlene *****

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@David ******

Years ago, the rule was changed: the money has to be in the account two months before all subsequent extensions: not three months.

@Brandon ***********

Every country that has an embassy here issues those letters, except for Australia, USA, and UK. Canada later stopped issuing the letters too.

Denmark also stopped issuing the letters, but if you are on a Danish social pension, the Danish embassy will stamp it "Document confirmed genuine" after they check with the Danish social pension office.

I think for Canada and Denmark it'd be best to check the current status.

@Michael *******

*90 days

@Marlene *****

You should be able to get non-O (marriage or volunteer) in your home country. But non-O (retirement) depends on which country. For example, USA: "yes"; Australia: I think "no".

I think these are all 90-day visas. You do not have to do any border run when extending. Once you have arrived on such a visa, it is just the same as if you had obtained it inside Thailand. i.e. you can easily extend it every 12 months.

There is(was) another type of O-visa (marriage) that was obtainable in Savannaket and HCMC that was a one-year visa with 90-day stay each time. So that visa pretty-much required a border run every 90 days.