Yes I can.

Greg yes I can. I have 20 months to put part of my monthly pension into a thai bank account / reach 800k Baht without ever touching my savings or investments in the US.

@Dawn ******

that would explain it!

Adding that Brandon is correct that the non O is appropriate for most.

I did the O-A because I wanted to keep my money in the US, at 60 the insurance was not unreasonable, and I had no urgent deadlines to handle on arrival. 11 days to find a pet friendly condo I liked. Will get a bank account set up in the next week, and start feeding it from my monthly pension instead of pulling from US savings. Not selling the O-A, but just listing why it made sense for me.

Skip the California DOJ site. Apply through the links on the FBI websites. Get your fingerprints done at a US post office that electronically submits. May people go through a service provider, and those will not get the embossed page, wet ink signature you need. It is relatively fast.

The machines have been working fine for me to top off

This is good to know!

@Chance *******

exactly. With at least a 23 hour flight, and at least 12 hours of time difference(and. Crossing the date line. It is probably gonna be the 15th on arrival

Thanks for everyone's help! Got it submitted. Other than the interface and document combining, the only other issue i had was from the consulate's instructions, since I was using a listed Thai insurance company i just needed to upload a copy of the policy(item 6) Problem came when the E-Visa system would not let me leave item 7, the foreign insurance certificate(which I should not have needed) blank.

My insurance broker provided a certificate, but not sure if this is a known thing, or something that the system needs to fix after condensing the visa types a few months ago.

@Graeme *****

This is good to know

@Sue ********

thank you Sue, I combined everything. Hopefully they don't have a problem with me sending it all.