You can't apply for a Non O-A in Thailand. Has to done in your home country.

I extended my Non O-A Retirement in mid-June at Jomtien. Definitely had to have appropriate insurance.

@Andrew *******

if you are not Australian it is closed as well.

At this stage no doubt about quarantine- alternative quarantine location in hotel approved by government at your cost.

Pacific Cross Health have just released a policy tailored to satisfy this requirement. No idea of the price but probably worth a look.

@Mandy *******

best to talk to immigration. Rules are fluid by location.

@Mandy *******

I hold an O-A Non Immigrant visa that I extend each year. I did that in June so good until June next year. I also did my outstanding 90 day report so the next one is due September.

You may find the immigration offices getting very busy in the days leading up to the end of the amnesty. This will obviously depend on any announcement regarding what will happen after the 31st July.

I did mine last week. I assumed that immigration could be extremely busy in July coming up to the end of the amnesty. Now I don’t have to go back until mid-September.

James I agree totally with this advice. I took my Thai wife with me as she completes all of my paperwork. We sat down with the man at immigration in Soi 5 Pattaya in late May this year. Went through all of the requirements even though we had done the same extension at the same place one year ago.

2 things had changed. One was the insurance requirement as I have a Non Immigrant O-A visa originally issued in Australia.

The second change was that I now had to produce 12 months bank statements from my bank in addition to the standard bank letter. I also had to produce all bank books covering the same 12 months. My latest bank book had to be updated the day prior to coming in for the extension. The previous year I only needed 2 months bank statements to show the 800,000 baht had been there for the required time. Now they are also checking to see that you have maintained the minimum balance of 400,000 baht for the whole year.

On the day I did the extension it took all of 10 minutes and I picked up my passport the following day.

Time well spent.