Do you have to upload the actual individual Bank Statements (which I find are very bulky, with a lot of bank advertising and at least 2 pages for each period) or can you simply upload the pdf of 3 months of transactions from your bank's internet site?

Colin Chaffers 365.25 days!

Unfortunately, in Bureaucrat-Speak (e.g. Banks, Immigration, Embassies), a year is a particular year as distinct from the last 12 months. e.g. 2025 Gregorian Calendar Year or 2568 Laos/Thai/Cambodian Buddhist Calendar year. The same goes for "Decade" e.g. The 2010s c/f to "the last 10 years"; Century and Millenium etc. Visa-speak is even more fun. The following is what I have learnt from this group (and is partly tongue-in-cheek, but I believe it to be true): A "Visa" is simply permission to enter a country under the terms of that particular visa, granted by that country's embassy somewhere. This is totally distinct from a "Permission to Stay" stamp that you used to get when you entered the country. With digital systems, you may not get that stamp in your passport and you must trust it has been recorded accurately (I think some Officers might allow you to look at their screen or give you an actual stamp if asked nicely). You cannot extend a visa. You can extend the invisible "permission to stay". If the "permission to stay" was granted under a Multiple-Entry Visa and is within the time-frame specified in that visa's first permission to stay, that might be for the same period as specified in the visa e.g. 12 months. But the NEXT stamp, or the invisible entry in the immigration computer, will not necessarily be under the same conditions as the original visa. e.g. A Multiple-Entry OA visa for Thailand can be used without a re-entry permit for multiple entries within the time dates specified by that visa as long as the Medical Insurance is still current, and it will be extended for the time period specified. Outside the dates specified in the original visa, however, the conditions of the visa invisibly and secretly change. It becomes a Single Entry Visa and you require a re-entry permit or you lose the right to enter under that original visa. An Immigration Officer is a member of the Police Force and is not some sort of "Customer Service Officer", even though they are called "Public Servants" in many countries. They are not required to tell you anything or ask anything like "Do you have a re-entry permit?" Upon an attempt to re-enter under the terms of the original visa, they will not tell you to go to the counter over there that says "Immigration" and get a re-entry permit, after all - they too are Immigration.

Greg Simpson I have never used an iPad but (as a windows user) know that doing anything on a Mac Computer is difficult unless you have done a 4-year "how to use Apple/Mac" degree.

Jim Davis You helped me. I would not have known there was an edit button. Thanks.

Sylvia Corley I tried to check a detail with my Thai Embassy and was told to read their website which didn't answer my question.

Did you get a re-entry permit? I didn't and lost my OA visa when I got back (even though it said "Multiple Entry"). If not, you might try getting one at the airport at immigration but before you get to the passport check/visa.

I wish Immigration had told me this as I left on my OA visa. I lost it. Why don't they do their job?

If you want health insurance anyway, it probably doesn't hurt to go with the OA visa (although health insurance in Thailand can be very expensive). If not, consider an O visa, which is basically the same but with no mandatory health insurance requirement

@Ghazwan ******

Wow. You are very privileged to get a response from the Thai Embassy in Australia.