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Go by the date on your 90-Day Report receipt/Next appointment notice that is stapled into your passport. Ignore the date on the email from immigration as it has been overcome by events, the event being that one was done for you at your yearly extension. The email notification system is very crude and only takes account of reports done using the online system, not reports that are done in person, nor reports that weren't done because one left Thailand before being here for 90 consecutive days.

The 90-Day Report is due when you have been in Thailand for a period of 90 consecutive days. The day you enter Thailand is counted as day 1.

The retirement extension doesn't require that you be retired (i.e., not working), it merely requires that you be at least age 50 and meet the financial requirements. You cannot work in Thailand under a retirement extension, but you can certainly work outside of Thailand. In practice, some people work from home in Thailand and while perhaps technically not allowed if done without any fanfare is likely to go undetected.

I opened mine from Thailand using a Commercial Mail Receiving Agency (travelingmailbox.com) and a VOIP (magicJack) for the phone number, but this was done at least 9 years ago. Not sure it would still be possible. At the time there was no minimum balance to open the account and no maintenance fees. It was called a High-Yield Interest Checking account and came with a brokerage account that I don't really use. I really only use the account because Thailand's ATM withdrawal fees (220 baht) are reimbursed.

If it is the first extension of stay then has to be in the account for 2 months before applying (however, check your local immigration office, some mistakenly enforce 3 months). If it is second or more extension of stay then 800k has to be in the account: 2 months before application for new extension 3 months after receiving new extension over 400k minimum balance as long as you have the extension The earliest immigration will allow a retirement extension of stay to be applied for is 45 days (although 30 days is more common, depends on local office). If you are within those parameters you could apply before you leave. Your extension of stay date would remain fixed, if you extend early you get one-year plus however many days early you apply. Remember you will need a re-entry permit.

Bank tellers at Bangkok Bank can force a balance forward transaction to be printed in your passbook without requiring a change.

If the OP is American he can open a Charles Schwab Checking account (with brokerage account) without a minimum opening balance, or any minimum balance and no maintenance fee. Highly recommended. However, I don't believe the account for Americans will reimburse the international wire transfer fee, so that may be a benefit only of the Charles Schwab One account.

Short of obtaining permanent residency or Thai citizenship you can't get added to a blue house registration book (Tabian Bahn) which is not used for foreigners. You could, however, obtain a yellow house registration book for foreigners and be entered in there. You can find out the requirements for the yellow house registration book at your local amphoe office. Varies by office how difficult that process is. Not terribly important nor necessary but nice to have if not too troublesome to obtain.

I received a covid jab at the Vachira walk-in clinic yesterday. The walk-in clinic is located not at the main hospital but at the CONVIENCE CENTER (Mahogany Center Building) on the same side of the road but about 200 meters north (toward Bangkok Phuket Hospital). What I did: 1. get blood pressure and pulse reading from one of the two machines on the left as you enter. 2. get paperwork from the information desk right next to 1. They only seem to need to see your passport, but I gave my vaccination history as well by showing the Mor Prom app and the yellow vaccination booklet and an old Thailand National Vaccination certificate. (I think they just need to know your Thai vaccination number which resembles a Thai National ID number - 13 digits, starts with 60000.......). 3. go to the station you are directed to (mine was #6). 4. staff at the desk there will examine your paperwork and interview you to fill in some more paperwork. The questions are weight and height, number of vaccinations you have had previously, any allergies, adverse reaction to previous shot, do you drink, smoke, etc. 5. called in by number to get your jab 6. 15 minute recovery period for observation of any adverse reactions 7. you're done. You can return to hospital next week to get a certificate if necessary. I believe they will update the Mor Prom application with your new jab before then. All in all the process was done within an hour. I arrived at about 10:20.

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In 2019 when this video was made you could reach Laem Sing Beach by land starting from Surin Beach. I have not heard in the meantime that this is no longer possible.

Not the way I would recommend anyone use their dual passports, but if indeed nothing unexpected happens then what you outline would not cause any problems. However, it is the very essence of the "unexpected" that it tends to be not expected. ???? How someone can "know" that everything will go according to plan is beyond my imagination. Especially when the cost of doing this the proper way is simply carrying both passports when traveling. Also, while Thailand allows this to happen, it's important to realize that in some other countries it is not allowed. In the USA it is against the law for a US citizen to use any other country's passport to enter the US.

If an American citizen then yes. That's what all those IRS documents you sign when opening a Thai bank account are for.

Not of immediate help, I realize, but next time in Thailand open a Thai bank account. Don't need a ATM/debit card on the account, just online banking. The maintenance cost for having such an account is zero (the ATM/debit card is what has annual fees). Keep a minimal balance in the account. Have your Thai sourced money paid into your Thai bank account. Use Dee Money or similar to transfer your money from that Thai bank account to your home bank account outside Thailand.

Only Thai bank accounts are considered for meeting the 800k baht requirement for a retirement extension. However, the foreign bank accounts can be used to obtain a Non-OA Visa from your home country. That can be used to stay almost 2 years in Thailand (with properly timed border run), at which time you can leave and obtain another Non-OA Visa from your home country or you go the retirement extension route outlined in the first paragraph.

But your money in that account lives in Canada ????

Yes. Possibly you may be able to avoid start-from-scratch. You can renew your extension as early as one month before your permission to stay expires. At some immigration offices you can renew your extension as early as 45 days before your permission to stay expires. If possible to do this you could avoid the extra trips to immigration to apply for your in-country Non-O, and a return trip when it's finally approved, not to mention the extra cost of 2,000 baht.

The current inflation rate in Canada is 6.9%.

The best time to apply for extension is after your 800k baht has been in the Thai bank for at least two months. It is always better in this situation to apply as soon as possible. All immigration offices allow you to apply 30 days before your permission to stay expires, some allow as early as 45 days (e.g., Phuket). You lose nothing by applying as early as possible and you gain maneuvering room to correct any unforeseen problems that may emerge. Earlier is always better.

This might be helpful. When dealing with immigration always use the passport for the country you are in. When dealing with check-in always use the passport you used when booking the ticket. (If asked, show the other passport to show you have a right to enter the destination country as a citizen.)

For purposes of needing a Thai driving license the important date is 90 days. After being in Thailand for 90 days you can no longer legally drive on a foreign driver's license and an International Driver's Permit.

I have not driven it in the last few days. I have not heard of any update in the news since about 5 days ago. The situation at that time was that it was EITHER open only to motorcycle traffic both ways OR open to motorcycle traffic both ways and car travel only from Patong to Kathu direction. We have had periods of rain since then. I suspect (but do not know) that the situation is unchanged. Personally, on a motorcycle I would be comfortable driving it in its current state. In a car I would not be. Up to you. The coast road from Kamala into Patong and the road from Karon into Patong are both open, but with heavier than normal traffic.

Thanks for clarifying that this was for a Non-O visa for purpose of retirement. I don't have personal experience with obtaining a Non-O visa at the Phuket Immigration Office. (In my case I had the underlying reason for my extension of stay based on a Non-ED visa changed from education to retirement, so have never applied for a Non-O visa from a visa-exempt entry). Here's how I have understood the process of getting a Non-O visa for purpose of retirement to work at the Phuket Immigration office: You apply for the Non-O for retirement along with the required documentation. You receive an under consideration stamp in your passport. You also receive a report back date. Your passport is returned to you along with a receipt for payment of the fee for the Non-O. At this point by accepting your application Phuket has basically blessed your non-O but that blessing must be confirmed by a higher level office. This final approval takes on the order of one month. You return on your report back date, they stamp your Non-O visa into your passport (having received final approval from a higher level office than Phuket), and you get your new permission to stay stamped into your passport. As a complication to this process, sometimes you will report back to Phuket Immigration on your report back date, but will be told that Phuket has not yet received final approval from above. You are given another report back date, either a new one stamped in your passport, or verbally. Usually something like come back in one week or we will call you when its ready. You go home with your passport and wait for your new report back date or to receive a call telling you it's ready. (I have never heard of a Non-O visa application being accepted at Phuket Immigration and not being finally approved, that is blessed locally, but rejected at the higher level.) So, the deviation between what you experienced and my understanding of the process is that they retained your passport from the date of your first report back date to your new report back date. That seems weird to me. It also seems that if that happened regularly someone would have mentioned it before. I'm puzzled as to why they did that in this case. If it's now normal procedure it's news to me. I've never known your passport to actually be sent to the higher level. It was enough that copies of your passport pages were sent to the higher level, not the actual book itself. Of course, it could be that it's done this way all the time as I've not personally experienced this particular process. In the meantime I think having paper copies (or electronic copies) of the relevant pages in your passport would serve as sufficient documentation until you do get your passport back. Except for travel. I know people have been able to use their Thai driver's license for domestic travel, possibly the Pink ID card would also work. Would be very interested if anyone else has had a similar experience applying for a non-O for purpose of retirement at Phuket Immigration. If so, my future advice might change to encourage people to get their non-O visas outside rather than inside of Thailand.

Non-O visa for reason of marriage to a Thai, or for reason of retirement?

If you are really arriving visa-exempt rather than VOA you would go to the regular queue. This advice could be confirmed depending on which country's passport you are traveling on. The reason VOA folks have a separate queue is because they need to purchase their visas on arrival. Visa-exempt entry is free for those who qualify and so can be done in the regular queue.