It would be an ED visa based on training as a professional scuba diver. I obtained the same in 2016, an ED 12 month ME visa for professional scuba diver training...

Good effort

You must have time to wait...

I suspect that they may even ask you to come back in a week... 5555

@Michael *******

no, I am not saying to lie.

My personal situation is that I draw an indeterminate amount of income from my Australian self managed super fund, which is essentially an Australian bank account and transfer that as required into Thailand. I have records of that with me when I see the consulate here should they wish to check the evidence, which thus far they have not chosen to do.

Dave Brown if you do it here you don't need medical or police check...

I had no need to do anything in Australia...

I got my first extension of stay based on retirement here in Thailand, with a stat dec from the Australian consulate in Phuket...

It merely stated I had an income monthly exceeding the required level (the amount was stated specifically in the document)...

And I repeated this last month at Phuket with another yearly extension...

A divergent view for you...

If you do it in Thailand you can obtain a statutory declaration from the Australian office here in which you state you have a monthly income of an amount that exceeds the 65,000 baht limit...

It does not require you to state that it is from a pension or super fund...

You could just be planning to send yourself that money monthly from your bank account and that would satisfy the requirement that you have the necessary income coming to Thailand to support yourself...

And you would not have sworn an incorrect statutory declaration...

@Tod ********

I just reported what happened.

It was not said to me in any funny way at all...

I didn’t want to do it, and still feel uncomfortable about it, tho thankfully the photocopy was illegible for numbers. And like you’ve indicated I didn’t feel I was in a strong enough position to refuse it, or push for an explanation...

However I did query it to make sure I had heard the request correctly and it was repeated to me. It was a request directly from the Thai helper guy who works outside and that everyone raves about being good and helpful...

When I got the photocopy and returned, the helper guy looked at it and then asked me to sign the page, which I did. He then stalled it into the package of documents that I took inside.

Inside the immigration officer stamped the credit card page, together with some of the other pages, but not all, so he was expecting it to be there...

I am watching my credit card now for anything suspicious...

@Ray ********

because they asked for me to provide a signed photocopy of it... I gave only the front...

Based on my experience today...

You need to add a copy of your credit card to your list...