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As many know, each Immigration Office impose their own requirements. Further, these requirements can change, often without notice. As mentioned by some, Thai Immigration some time ago did relax the TM.30 reporting requirements saying if you traveled outside of Thailand, returned using a Re-Entry permit and to the same previously reported address, no new TM.30 was required. That may still be the case at some Immigration Offices, but as noted by several posters, it is no longer the case at Chonburi (Pattaya) Immigration [Jomtien Beach Soi 5]. They recently (within at least the past 2 months) are now requiring a new TM.30 be filed in all cases. Further, if you go there for services (90 day reporting, residency certificate, extension of stay, etc.), they are wanting to see evidence that you timely filed the TM.30 when you returned (the requirement to report is supposed to be within 24 hours, but they are apparently allowing a few extra days - in a previous post, someone said it was 72 hours). If you didn't file a new TM.30 upon return, they will require you do so before providing any services and will also impose a fine - from reports I have seen, it is 1,600 baht.

Under the provisions of both paragraph 2.18 and 2.19, if the relationship is to a Thai child (be it their own, adopted, or their spouse's), the child must not be over the age of 20 unless they are disabled as noted below: 2.18 In the case of being a family member of a Thai national (applicable only to parents, spouse, children, adopted children, or spouse’s children): 4) In the case of children, adopted children, or spouse's children, said children, adopted children, or spouse's children must not be married, must live with the alien as part of the family, and must not be over 20 years of age except in case of the person hereof is of illness or disability and cannot live without support of father or mother 2.19 In the case of being a family member of a Thai resident (applicable only to parents, spouse, children, adopted children, or spouse’s children): (4) In the case of children, adopted children, or spouse’s children, said children, adopted children, or spouse's children must not be married, must live with the alien as part of the family, and must not be over 20 years of age except in case of the person hereof is of illness or disability and cannot live without support of father or mother.

With a Non-Immigrant O Visa (which is what you say you have), you have been getting extensions of the permitted stay (not a new visa) based on the "reason" being you have a Thai child. When that child reaches 20 years of age, as you mention, that reason can no longer be used to extend your stay. When that time comes, you do not need a new visa. You just change the "reason" for extending your stay to retirement and show you meet the financial requirements for retirement extensions of stay. There is no health insurance requirement for getting extensions of stay when the underlying visa is a Non-Immigrant O. Whether to get OPD coverage of health insurance, if from a Thai company, is up to you, but usually not considered necessary by many as the added annual premium cost tends to exceed what you may expect to pay over a year here for outpatient care.

The Embassy staff will notarize signatures. If your document has no requirement for witnesses to sign, then there would be no signatures of witnesses to notarize. If you documents only require your signature one time, then the fee will only be $50 - if more than one time, then it will be $50 times the number of times you have to sign a document.

Yes as the documents sent to me to sign had to be notarized. But, that was almost 20 years ago The fee then was US$50 for first document and US$25 for each additional document. Now their notary fee is US$50 for each document.

I was bitten by a cat and went to Jomtien Hospital in Pattaya 5 days later (puncture wounds were not healing). They injected Berirab P inj. (300 Iu/2 ml) (Hrig)..Dose 20 IU/Kg direct into the wound area. The price was 3,978 baht - this was on 5 September this year. They also injected the first dose of SPEEDA which was followed later by the required dosage at specified intervals.

Doing it online, it must be by due date. In person, it can be done up to 14 days before to 7 days after.

This link brings up a pdf document showing the Restive Care offered by Jomtien Hospital (Pattaya) including price list. It notes that dementia patients are treated under this program (Jomtien Hospital is owned by the same parent company as Bangkok Hospital Pattaya). https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwij3ayjh8CCAxWLTmwGHSckCfoQFnoECBkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fvfw12146.org%2Fuploads%2Fdocuments%2FRespitecare_JomtienHospital2022-ENversion.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0_MIv8TskC82R0Rd_jMUKN&opi=89978449

Here is the link to the PCEC webpage showing assisted living facilities: https://pcec.club/HEALTH-CARE It provide links to the facilities, but does not show prices as such will vary depending on the type of unit and level of care selected.

Current procedure is to apply, receive a "claim check," and told to come back the next day after 2pm (no need to get queue, just go to Desk 8 and give them the claim check. You will receive your passport with the extension stamp back. Jomtien Immigration will accept applications for the one year extension up to 30 days prior to the permitted to stay until date. You can then apply for a Re-Entry permit (will need to get a Queue number for that desk beforehand) after relieving your passport - Re-Entry permits will expire on the latest permitted to stay date. If not too late in the day, it should be done with the passport returned the same day. You can also get a Re-Entry permit at the airport, just give yourself a little extra time for the process.

Absolutely correct! Jomtien (Pattaya) Immigration office as mentioned is haphazard giving this notice. Further, they have no tracking system for who does or does not report. I know several people who received the notice to report back after 90 days to show the 800k remained on deposit that did not do so. When they renewed their annual extension, no problems (of course they did have to show their bank book to prove they kept the 800k on deposit for those 90 days).

Although the OP only wants to extend his stay for another 30 days, that is not possible. As mentioned, the OP can extend his permission to stay for one year from the end of the 90 day permission to stay granted when he entered using the Non-Immigrant "O" Visa. To receive the one year extension, he will need to pay the 1,900 baht fee and show he meets the financial requirement for extending his stay based on retirement, e.g. 800k baht in Thai bank. Although one year may be longer than the OP currently needs, if his plans are to return within the one year extension period, he can get a Re-Entry Permit before he departs which will allow him to return without the need to get a new Visa (or enter Visa Exempt).

Holiday Inn Pattaya has handicap bathrooms on their lobby, meeting room, and restaurant floors in each tower (Bay tower fronts Beach Road, Executive tower is behind the Bay tower). I attend the Pattaya City Expats Club's weekly meetings which can take place in either of the two towers and have used the handicap toilets in both.

The Immigration rule requires a confirmation letter from your embassy OR proof of depositing 65k per month from a foreign source in your Thai bank. If you have an embassy letter, then Immigration will most likely not require anything more than that and the usual bank letter confirming your account (required for both 65k monthly income or 800k in bank). Some may require a photocopy of the identity page of your bank passbook. Nationals from the UK, USA, and Australia have to use the proof of monthly deposit method as their embassies no longer issue the "income" letter.

I live in Pattaya and have at different times purchased two online from Invade IT. Over the years, I have also purchased other computer accessories from them. They are based in Hua Hin and will ship to anywhere in Thailand. I pay with bank transfer and the items usually ship within 1 to 3 days arriving the following day.

In the 20+ years I have been living here with annual retirement extensions, I have missed the 90 day address report twice during that period. The result was a 2,000 baht fine. No other consequences. As mentioned, online reporting is up to the due date, so trying to do it even one day late, will most likely see it rejected.

Some US Expats here that do not have a US bank account set up a Wise (Wise.com) virtual account which provides an account number and ACH routing number (both needed by SS to set up direct deposit). When they receive their deposit, transfer all or part of the funds in the virtual account to their Thai bank account at their convenience. But, a caution, the virtual account is not FDIC insured. As mentioned, Wise has good exchange rates and fees are reasonable. Vist their website for details.

For my last 3 retirement extensions, I have obtained both bank letters (verification of account required for all and listing of foreign deposits for the previous 12 months used for the monthly income method) from Bangkok Bank's service counter at Tesco Lotus South in Pattaya. Since I don't keep my passbook updated on a regular basis, I firs order bank statements for the previous 12 months which they have to obtain from HQ in Bangkok and takes about 5 business days. I then return and they prepared both bank letters for Immigration for me, using the bank statements for the listing of foreign deposits which I then presented to Immigration the following morning along with my TM.7 and other required documents. Next year I will need to use a different customer service location as Bangkok Bank closed their counter at Tesco Lotus South last month.

You should able to get the bank letter from any branch bank. The branch bank where I opened my account is in South Pattaya. As it is more convenient, I have been obtaining the letter from Bangkok Bank's customer service counter at Tesco Lotus South (just recently they have closed that counter). I know several others that use the Bangkok Bank branch on Jomtien 2nd Road located near the Immigration Office.

Bangkok bank charges the 0.0025% as a conversion fee, but it has a minimum of 200 baht and maximum of 500 baht for this fee. It is not charged if funds are received in Thai baht. Because it is usually cheaper than using their US bank to do the transfer. Some banks do not offer international wire transfers as part of their online banking. My US bank charges US$45 for international wire transfers in US dollars. Wise's fees are much less. My bank's online system will do international transfers for a fee of US$5, BUT require the funds be converted to Thai baht at a very lousy exchange rate - when they introduced that service, I did a comparison with Wise using US$2,500 as the transfer amount. The result was while my bank's fee was US$5 they deposited 1,600 baht less baht into my account than that provided by Wise.

Correct. As I read the OP, the money has already been transferred by the foreign bank in Thai baht, thus the sound advice to better have had it sent in foreign currency is moot. The question was whether sending it in baht vs foreign currency will be acceptable for Thai Immigration. It should be, as they want to see the funds are in the bank in Thai baht and that the funds came from outside of Thailand, the fact it was in baht should not be a problem. I use the monthly income method for my extensions which requires 65k be transferred monthly to my Thai bank from outside of Thailand. I use Wise for this purpose and they they do the conversion and supply the funds in Thai baht - Immigration has no problem with it being in baht instead of foreign currency. However, as mentioned, if Pattaya Immigration (Jomtien) is the location where you plan to apply, then it will need to be seasoned for 2 months before applying for the Non O Visa (it is contrary to the rules as seasoning is only required to obtain the later extension, not the Visa itself, but that is what Pattaya Immigration is now requiring.

Most new wills will include a statement that all previous wills are revoked, which should be sufficient. If you put that statement in your latest will, that should be sufficient for the probate judge to bar any claims to your estate based on the prior will.

The Pattaya City Expats Club has the following on their website regarding getting a Residence Certificate form Pattaya Immigration Office:

That is assuming one has sufficient funds to make a second transfer of 65k for that month. I suspect that many may not be able to do this. However, if you can do two such transfers in a month, it is good advice. I use the 65k per month method for my annual retirement extensions, have a Bangkok Bank account, and have been using Wise ever since the Bangkok Bank New York Branch had to quit accepting domestic ACH transfers which they forwarded on to Thai accounts, leaving only international ACH transfers as acceptable (most US banks do not provide for retail customers to send international ACH transfers). As mentioned, Bangkok Bank, if Wise sends the transfer through them, records the transaction as FTT (foreign source). On two separate occasions, one a few years ago, Wise did send my transfer through Kasikorn - not only mine, but many others. Based on the uproar that caused, Wise added the Long Stay Thailand option in the reason for the transfer drop down menu. This was supposed to assure that the transfer went through Bangkok Bank. And it did for a long period of time. Then, a about a year or so ago, there was a glitch and one month many using that reason, including myself, received the transfer through their other partner bank, Kasikorn, and it was recorded by Bangkok bank as being domestic. It was apparently fixed after a month or so and since then all my transfers from Wise have been recorded FTT. When the glitch happened this last time, I still had sufficient funds to send a second transfer. To ensure FTT coding, I used Bangkok Bank New York Branch's "Baht remittance service" (does not involve ACH transfer and you transfer funds by snail mail). You email an application to the NY Branch and send a check using your USA bank online service - they will accept those, but not a personal handwritten check. When they receive the check and it clears, they then transfer the funds in baht to your Bangkok Bank account in Thailand - the exchange rate was the same as if converted by Bangkok bank here and the NY Branch fee was same as they charge for ACH transfers - in my case, US$10. It took about 11 days to receive the funds in my account here, but it was guaranteed to have the much needed FTT code for Immigration. I usually receive my Wise transfers on the same or following day unless a weekend or Thai government holiday intervenes. Because of the potential for another glitch, I choose to do two separate transfers through Wise - the first for at least 65k. I then send a second transfer which may or may not be 65k depending on my need. But, if there is another glitch, I still have sufficient funds to send another 65k+ through Bangkok Bank's NY Branch.

The construction is for the second stage of improvements per a recent article in a Pattaya Newspaper. When it is completed, the area remaining of the car park area will be a fully covered and self-contained area for those waiting for service.