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Yes – to @KhaoNiaw – your TM30 needs to be registered in the new data-system that opened September last year (if I remember the month right).

The pinned thread is quite general about extension of stay and 90-days address report – I don't mention "retirement extension" – and you can find many answers there. If you ask at immigration, you will get a paper with what documents to bring, it's not that difficult. If you follow the pinned thread about Samui Immigration, you can also find document lists updated answers there. Unfortunately, a lot of the people in the queue line are not ASEAN NOW-members, and many just extend a 30-days tourist-stay with another 30 days, but stand in the same queue as expats. Something change at Samui Immigration office almost every year, with the staff trying to make the procedure more smooth. Recently the document check has been moved downstairs with two windows. Before it was a single desk in the upstairs office. There are more and more people coming to extend stay – and some for 90-days address report – at the immigration office, and the immigration staff seems to try to handle it. There is a sign inside the immigration office with contact for any immigration experience – we are not allowed to snap photos inside the office – that sign is likely also a gateway for suggestions. When I renewed my extension of stay in October, there was large posters downstairs about using the e-Extension option, which probably can be used to know both paperwork and make things go smoother...

Normally the banks are very kind; branch manager was probably either new on Samui – I had not seen her before – and following head office rules, or she just had a bad day... I luckily wisely have several plastic cards from two different Thai banks, plus my foreign cards...

If you follow the pinned thread here... –you will know exactly what papers to bring and what's happening of new amazing demands this year in Samui Immigration. To Moderator: Please close this thread and let discussion continue in the pinned immigration-thread.

It has taken about a week for several years now, to get one's passport back with a new extension of stay-stamp. Many banks seems only to be able to print up to six month statement. You can order a full 12-month period from the bank's head office in your local branch, it takes about a week to arrive in the branch. Together with a local statement print you can show a 12-month period by the time apply for extension of stay; remember to get your bank book updates same day as you apply for extension of stay (new rule for Samui Immigration).

TM30 is a good suggestion...

Sometimes alternative treatment and natural methods seems to be too far way out; however, the herbs might be good and healthy for a lot of other things than stopping PM2.5-particles to getting into your lungs...

Guessing, when talking about unreported. Please read my post again about to understand EEC-rules, which is what I'm referring to...

And you see ambulances driving direct to the morgue behind Samui Hospital..?

I don't mind what you have or don't have, I kindly replied to OP...

I live that close to the Ring Road that I can hear ambulances, but they sound the same no matter where they are going to. Do you know where the morgue is?

Yes, both parents also for subsequent passport for a minor; I'm talking from 2022-experience, my daughter was 16 years old. Of course, it might be that some passport-offices have different rules, but I wouldn't take the risk without prior confirmation. Same applies to my Danish home country, both parents needed to be present for the second passport; also 2022.

I'm replying about non-O...

Nice and kind reply... However, you will need a long-term visa and extensions of stay to live in Thailand more permanently; for example a non-O based on marriage, if you don't apply for a long stay visa that permits you to do distance work from Thailand. When applying for the annual extension of stay you can also apply for a multiple re-entry permit – 3,800 baht – which allows you to re-enter unlimited within the period of extension of stay.

No, you can apply in your home country; might be more difficult to get it somewhere else. You can also apply for a non-immigrant O-type visa when you arrive in Thailand as visa exempt or on a tourist visa.

No big problem. You can have same day passport issued for an official surcharge around 1,000 baht (it was 1,000 last I visited a Thai passport office a few years ago). Both mom and dad needs to be present when applying for passport for a Thai minor.

How do you know? The number of road deaths counted pr. 100,000 population variates in Thailand, depending on how you count, as some statistics only counts died on the spot as death, while others includes people that died at hospital; for some countries that period is up to 30 days after the road accident. The official Thai traffic deaths pr. 100,000 population is around 35, which for Samui would be 3 per month. Back when we had printed weekly or fortnightly local newspapers giving monthly status from the police, the official statement for Samui was 2-4 traffic deaths per month, which fit with the overall statistics. Some years back one of the local news media and some expats tried to start a road safety group. It was said that counted by EEC standards – death up to 30 days after the accident – Thailand would have about 90 road deaths per 100,000 population, and Samui around 120, which is 10 per month. The graphic below originates from the days when we worked on establishing the group...

You can perform high level director duties; i.e. attend board meetings and sign documents and annual statement, but you cannot do any physical work.

The bank will most likely not withhold any tax, but they might report foreign transfers, which is easily possible with datasystems. In my Scandinavian home country the taxman has for years known all about the people's financial transactions; we don't even need to make a tax return, everything is already known and will be taxed...

It might change this year with the new tax-rule for foreign transfers from 1st January 2024; however, we are still missing details about how it will work.

Doesn't help if it's SCB and not on a Friday. The ATM digested my SCB card in front of the SCB branch in Central. I went inside and a member of the staff had the key and was ready to get out and find my card. However, the branch manager saw it and stopped him, saying that they only open the ATM on Fridays – unfortunately it was Tuesday, so I had to come back after Friday with my passport to collect my card...

That sounds fair enough, if he heads for the affordable P&P-ladies and don't let some move in...

Digital online era-progress...

I would presume making a last will at the amphor office is the way, in where you state that you wish your body to be burned and what to do with the ashes. Make a separate bank account with a deposit for the costs – name it in the will – and donate whatever left of assets in Thailand to the temple, where your body is burned.

The banks want their customers to be online, they seems to think that bad physical service is the way. In the future there will be one Samui-branch – probably in Nathon – for each bank and an office in a central mall for limited service. Bangkok Bank has already changed name of the Nathon Branch to Samui Branch – I had to change my paper slip the other day, because I wrote "Nathon" as branch, it should be "Samui"...