I thought you don't have to use all the year long 90 days border hops/bounces but indeed as

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

says e.g. a 60 day extension visiting Thai family (Think the visa (rest of the time)) is void then ? But also you can make a year extension if you have all requirements before all border hops are used. Possible that this only could be done in covid times ? Just ask your imm. office. Think that's the safest approach. Normally you have to do the border hops indeed. If you do the last border hop just before the visa is expired, you can almost get a year and 3 months stay.

And it should be "Balie" in Dutch then

@Dylan ********

, ha ha.

THINK

@Reece ******

, y'r best chance is to get a real Tourist visa (allowing 60 days in Thailand and one time extendable with 30 days) in e.g. Laos with a border run. So buying a tourist visa at the Thai embassy/consulate in vientiane or savannakhet. And then fingers crossed. Border bounce/hop (leaving Thailand, go into other country, and come back immediately) is asking for trouble with a 45 days visa exempt. Also take in account, 20,000฿ per person in cash, proof of hotel booking and onward travel out of Thailand. If this is not working, then it's time to go home for a while I guess. The covid extensions where there with reason "unable to travel home". Now almost every country is open. Good luck I would say 🤞

Sorry

@Paul *******

, it's no visa anymore. When the original visa was single entry, it has a stamp "USED" now. You mean an extension of stay based on retirement.

And no comment from

@Otto ********

anymore 😜

In this group it's not a problem to talk about opening a bank account

@Dimitris ***********

. Never bin. Maybe confused with another group.

Nope, you talk about a year extension. That's not a visa anymore. Y'r visa has a stamp 'USED'

@Paul *******

. That's also a reason many mistakes are made in posting. It seams nitpicking, but 🤷‍♂️

@David *******

. Yes, but as said before, better to ask your imm. office. I read there are some who not accept this. You can use the same 400k in the Thai bank together with the affidavit.

Bit painful, but should your (officialy married) partner die, you still can use the existing extension of stay based on being married to a Thai partner. Not a new one I think 🤷‍♂️ "you signed for it" on the STM.2 if used. (item 2).

Sorry to hijack y'r post a bit

@Jurgen **********

.

Only now I read you are a Canadian, sry 🙄

@ *************

y.

You also can get an affidavit from y'r embassy. Not need to lock y'r money in a Thai bank. And indeed MOST (not all, just ask) imm. offices accept the combination method. This also because you can get an affidavit. The embassies of the 4 countries I mentioned, don't provide an affidavit anymore, so sometimes difficult to prove the income part of a combination method.

Well, not sure indeed, but I presumed it is 2.030€ net

@David *******

. Don't have to be foreign deposits for us. Just an income statement (Affidavit) from the Dutch or Belgian embassy. It's different only for 4 countries. (US,UK, Australia and Denmark). Is het netto

@Jurgen **********

?