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  1. Could someone please provide me with a link to the most updated version of the form needed to renew my 1 year extension of non-O based on retirement? Forgot the forms name now. Cheers.

    Since the upgrade the search is not working properly in my browser.

     

    Also I would be grateful if anyone could check out whether all the following docs are still needed to be presented at the immigration office.

     

    Bank book with 800K seasoned for 3 months.

    Bank letter confirming the above no more than 3 days old

    The double sided form which I forgot the name of filled in with a pinned recent 4x6 cm photo on it with light blue background.

    1 extra photo

    Passport

    Signed copies of the last 3 months bank book transactions pages

    Signed copies of Passport photo page along with previous multiple entry stamp page

    Proof of address or Rental agreement contract (which I was asked to produce last year)

    Anything that I missed?

     

    Thanks in advance

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  2. 1 hour ago, NickJ said:

    Where would you be living if you moved closed to it? 

    300 to 400 away from it...not visible in the photo.

     

    Living nearby an EMF emitter is well known to be increasing the possibility to contract some sort of cancer in the medium to long term especially in children.

    The safety distance advised by various govs don't seem to match the results in some of the tests carried out in Sweden some time ago

    https://www.google.com/search?q=sweedish+study+done+on+EMF&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b

  3. 23 and wanting to burn your time in Bangkok?

    If you had a skill, I'd be encouraging you but you say you're working a dead-end job in a factory.

    Get trained, mate. Learn a skill that you can make money out of anywhere in the world then you've got a choice.

    Spunking your youth away in Bangkok on your bird's mum's couch isn't cool.

    Failing that, the new multiple entry tourist visa should be available soon and that gives you a year at a time I think.

    £500 and you're sorted

    A new multiple entry tourist visa? Do you have a link to that?

    Cheers

  4. I think you misunderstand (or me) but I think they want to say if you here in thailand and you go to the office ask for an extention for ex 50 days before the end, they will ask you to come back and do it in the last 30 days. nothing to do with arrive in Thailand

    Kind of asking nowretired to possibly elaborate on that 30 days “rule” to see if it’s strictly enforced by most immigration offices or else. I’m just curious to hear some more comments about it if anyone has any.

    My previous post implied I was going to be already in Thailand when applying for the extension.

    Cheers

  5. Immigration may refuse to process an application if more than 30 days validity remain on the permission to stay obtained from the "O" visa.

    Is that right? I have a non-O based on retirement exp on 17-Nov-15 and am returning to Thailand at the beginning of Oct-15 using my single re-entry I’ve recently got. So if that’s the case I better off waiting until the 18-Oct-15 or later before going to immigration to get a multiple entry extension then.

    Cheers

  6. If you fancy taking on some degree of risk and like the investment sector you can always try to open an offshore account with a bank or broker and buy government bonds from emerging countries.

    They start from around 3M THB apiece though. Not many but there are a few countries from emerging markets paying a 7% to 9% net annual dividend and cost around 100 or less especially now with the general market drop. Certainly there are quite a few of them around paying 5% to 6% dividend.

    Keep in mind that like Argentina, some countries can go bankrupt and default on both dividend and final payment and you would lose some or all of your money you have invested in that country. If you buy into countries sitting on natural resources like Brasil, Kazahkstan etc you would stand a better chance they’ll pay up even if they run into trouble.

    More risk but a bit more return and not work involved.

  7. Yes passed out. You played it right. I only posted because I had anxious night worrying if my app without bank letter and house book would be accepted. I posted question ...what I need for non imm o based on retirement on TV. I got the expert advice from the fan mods here only to have grief with clerk. Why are they so unfriendly folk. Some consulates need a boss to come in clean it up. Teach some basic manners and then happy days for everyone.

    Listening to your experience and the experience of others I've read in other threads it sounds like some of those guys in the embassy are on a power trip even though I haven’t personally experience any of it. If that’s the case I would say that normally the authoritarian behavior and arrogance comes from the top so I doubt it that anyone will ever come down from above to teach them some good etiquette on behavior but you never know. Finger crossed.

  8. Thanks for report. I did it two weeks ago. Think you wasted a lot of effort. The minivan from central plaza UT is breeze to bridge. 50baht. Also why go to embassy in KK. the visa process at nongkai is a breeze. They even have a money exchange with good rate.

    I also got asked for house book and bank letter from the clerk. As ubon pointed out....these guys are not IO.

    those two items are NOT required.

    I took private taxi from Thai consulate to border. 300baht.

    Came via tuk tuk . not again

    Thanks for you comment. That was my first time in Lao and getting there in the evening I didn’t want to hang around at the border possibly having to wait on minivans to make up the number or ending up traveling by tuk tuk over that distance on those pot holed roads. I can see you’ve done that and regretted it. That’s why I opted to travel by international bus (85 baht), which requires you to have the Lao visa before hand. No visa no bus ticket.

    Yeah I guess those two documents are not a requirement but since a list of requirements is not written down anywhere that I could find so I assume they could make up what they like and they could give you hard time if you don’t have what they ask for. It didn’t cost me much to generate those documents so I thought better not taking the chance and keep things smooth.

  9. Next time I come back in I will apply for a year extension based on retirement but I've got no plans to retire/stop working anytime soon. Can anyone see any problem with that? I assume I have to put retired in the arrival/departure card every time I come back into the country.

    No one at immigration cares about your status outside of Thailand (in your home country).

    I doubt they care about any of the non-essential information on the departure card.

    "Retired" refers only to the fact that you are not allowed and do not work in Thailand.

    What you do elsewhere is not their business.

    Write "retired", no prob.

    And yes, write the number of the re-entry permit in the departure card when you arrive next time.

    You will then get an "Admitted Until" stamp for 17 Nov 2015.

    Hi KhunBENQ thanks for your input.

    I read in other threads that now the immigration officers have started doing house calls to make sure people really live to the addresses they say they are even on retirement extensions.

    I normally spend 6 months of the year outside Thailand for work purposes and if they come and check on me while I'm not there I assume I can say the truth and tell them I"m working away. Do you see any problem with that either?

  10. It is a number separate to the "Visa" which has now been used and is of no further use.

    The permit relates to the permission to stay date which was placed in your passport when you entered the country.

    Use the permit number when completing the entry/departure card when re entering Thailand

    Hi nowretired and thanks for that info. So there's not connection with the original visa and you say to write the permit number on the arrival card next time I enter the country which is the one on the top left of the re-entry stamp 1357/58

    Cheers

  11. Hi guys, some days ago I’ve got a single re-entry stamp from my local immigration office on my single entry non-o visa based on retirement I’ve recently got in Vientiane and I’ve just spotted that the number on the top left on the re-entry stamp doesn’t match with any number on the visa itself.

    I think the immigration officer when he showed me what was what in the re-entry stamp he just made for me he said that was the visa number which makes it plausible so they can easily connect the two. Can’t remember perfectly though. If that’s the case then I may have a problem next time I come back to Thailand. I should have taken my glasses with me to check properly I guess. Rather than going back to check with them and possibly waste a trip I’m asking in here first. I attached a photo for clarity.

    Thanks in advance for your comments

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  12. Hi guys, I got lots of very useful information from this forum before my trip to Vientiane I've done on the 19th of August so I’d like to share my experience it might help others.

    I decided to catch the international bus from Udon to avoid hassle and possible delays with mini vans waiting to get the right amount of people on at the Lao border so I got myself a Lao visa the day before. I went to the Lao embassy which is still right across the entrance of Raja City Lakeside and Garden Home in Mittraphap road in Khon Kaen. Very easy to find and I was in and out in less than 20 minutes with a 30 day tourist visa in my passport.

    The international bus wasn’t one of the best buses I’ve been on in Thailand I have to say but it went through both borders reasonably quickly considering there were around 30 of us sitting on the bus. 20 or 30 minutes max I guess and it dropped me off Tuesday evening in Vientiane at about 10 minutes drive from the Thai embassy.

    I got to the Thai embassy the next day just after 9am and I was surprised to see that all the action was taking place in the embassy yard rather than inside the embassy building itself. All was undercover though so no queuing under the sun or anything like that. There must have been 150 to 200 chairs for people to sit on, half a dozen tables to fill in forms, a shack with 4 office type windows to pass documents in and out of and a desk on the left hand side where a woman was giving out numbers to people as they arrived. Luckily there were only 4 people in the queue. I got the number from the desk and the lady told me that the application form I filled in had the wrong format. She pointed out where to get the right form on the nearby table along with a glue stick to attach the two photos and a pair of scissors to cut them down to the right size. Very civilized I thought.

    The right form is in the Ubonjoe post linked below.

    http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/847630-apply-for-retirement-visa-within-thailand/#entry9729807

    I downloaded a few forms from different web sites in the last few days prior to going over and I must have got them mixed up and I ended up printing out and using the wrong one.

    By the time I finished filling in the right application form there were about 30+ people on the queue so I was kind of lucky I got there between waves of people. I was number 82.

    I got to window No 1 and handed over the following documents:

    1. Passport

    2. Copy of passport main page

    3. Copy of Lao visa I got in Khon Kaen

    4. Copy of Lao entry stamp

    5. Bankbook.

    6. Copy of all the bankbook pages showing transactions no blank ones.

    He looked at the paperwork and politely asked me for the lease showing the address of where I live which I had with me but kept in my bag. He wanted a photocopy of it so he sent me to the top of the stairs as you enter the embassy building there is a photocopy machine there with a guy doing copies and charging 5 baht per sheet. So no need to go outside the embassy for photocopies.

    Handed that copy over to him and I was out of the embassy in less than 45 minutes. They never asked me for the letter from the bank to confirm my bank balance, which I had with me anyway but kept in my bag.

    The next day they started calling numbers from window No 2 a few minutes before 1:30 and by 1:50 I had my passport back with the Thai visa on it. Judging by the number of people left sitting and waiting to be called there must have been a total of 120 to 130 people that afternoon waiting to receive their visas. On the way out of the embassy I got approached by a minivan driver offering me a lift to the border for 200 baht. By then, after talking to other guys booked into minivans, I knew the rate was 100 baht so in the end he went with that. The night before a tuk tuk driver asked me 500 baht to take me to the border, which I thought was a bit over the top! Around 2pm there were a few mini vans parked just outside the embassy so it should never be too difficult to get a lift to the border for 100 baht or so. It took just over half an hour to get there. Then, after the Lao border there is a small bus running across the 2 to 3 kilometer long bridge and you need to buy a ticket on the nearby booth for 4,000 Kip before you go on it. That’s 16 to 20 baht. When I got to the Thai border they failed to spot my new visa and after checking my passport several times over they sent me to a private booth where an officer told me I already had 6 visa exempt entry stamps this year in the passport and he wasn’t happy to let me in. Once I showed him the page with the new non-immigrant visa then he apologized and stamped me in.

    I guess all workers on a 28/28 or shorter rotation like I am on are going to have a problem at some point and will have to sort out some kind of visa. A triple entry tourist visa from own country or nearby country once a year and 3 or 4 visa exempt stamps will suffice to get by every year without the need of an non immigrant visa or else. But that’s a personal choice.

    So all in all it has been an easy run and certainly better than expected and also I have to say I really enjoyed Vientiane and I’m looking forward to going back for a long weekend type thing. Plenty of restaurants over the Mekong river, a few nice coffee shops like Amazon charging just short of 40 baht for a nice cup of coffee, a few nice bars and cheap enough Beerlao 15,000 kip about 60 baht for a big bottle of 500 or 600 ml. The food maybe not so cheap though but not too expensive either.

    I found the people in the Thai embassy pretty relaxed and polite enough. The lady at the desk giving numbers surprisingly even smiled at me while handing me the right application form to fill in. Like others already said in other threads Wednesdays seem to be good days to go I went through the whole process spending less than 1 and half hour in the embassy counting both days.

  13. I've just spotted this in the Thai Royal Embassy in Vientiane website:

    For Lao nationals Or those aged 50 years old. Or wishing to take lives in retirement in Thailand.

    Documents to be submitted include a visa.

    1. Resume
    2. Certificate revenues of at least 65,000 baht a month from the embassy / consulate of the country of residence or certificate, in order to show the financial status of at least 800,000 baht and in the bank account for not less. Over 3 months
    3. Evidence of a criminal background check from the residence.
    4. Medical certificate

    It's a poor translation but I think it's clear enough. I can't recall reading in any recent threads of people who have being there and been asked any documents such as medical cert and criminal background check.....Has anyone?

    http://vientiane.thaiembassy.org/en/consular/visa.php

    If that's not the right page am looking at can anyone point me to the right direction?

    Thanks a lot

  14. Should the OP's girlfriend file a TM30 with Udon immigration for everything to be legit? To show that she notified them of a foreigner staying at her address?

    Hi NancyL thanks for raising the point. The T30 appears to be a form intended for housemasters, owners and possessors of the property to fill in and not for simple tenants but correct me if I’m wrong. So maybe as Ubonjoe was saying a letter from my gf stating I’m staying at her address should suffice.

    Cheers

    A tenant is a "possessor" and has a responsibility for complying with the law which includes completing and submitting a TM 30.

    I have no idea as to whether this aspect of the law is enforced in your area, if not I expect it soon will be.

    I stand corrected!

  15. Should the OP's girlfriend file a TM30 with Udon immigration for everything to be legit? To show that she notified them of a foreigner staying at her address?

    Hi NancyL thanks for raising the point. The T30 appears to be a form intended for housemasters, owners and possessors of the property to fill in and not for simple tenants but correct me if I’m wrong. So maybe as Ubonjoe was saying a letter from my gf stating I’m staying at her address should suffice.

    Cheers

  16. I was reading other posters in other threads and all the complications they had in Vientiane staying overnight, missing paperwork etc. Just thinking I need to go to Bangkok at some point so is there a place I could get the non-o visa in there during the next week or so? Thanks again.

    No

    On what basis would you be applying for a non-O visa?

    Over 50 retirement visa. See my post at the top.

    Cheers

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