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I'm asking for a friend. Must you first leave Thailand and get your non B visa in another country, before you apply for the WP. Or can you apply for the WP before you have your non B visa?

16 hours ago, perthperson said:

It would not be possible to obtain a visa from a Thai embassy/consulate which was valid beyond a passports period of validity. 

Most people that live here like me don't apply for a visa. We have a 1 year extension that we renew once a year at our immigration office

15 hours ago, BritTim said:

Your decision, of course, but 6,000 baht for 5 years works out at 600 baht for 6 months. Personally, for the sake of saving a potential US$17 or less, I would never risk being unable to travel when a need arose. Sure, you can enter Thailand with a soon to expire passport, but you cannot visit most other countries (or, in some cases, even transit through them) without 6 months validity.

If I need to travel to a country where I need 6 or more months validity on my passport, then I would apply for a new one of course. But I live in Thailand and don't travel a lot except for domestic travel

I have entered Thailand a couple of times with less than 6 months left on my passport. Mainly because I'm Swedish and our passports only last 5 years. and a new cost 6000 baht at the embassy here. Then you like to use it as long as it last

25 minutes ago, OJAS said:

The current requirements for existing retirees on annual extensions may well remain unchanged under "grandfathering" arrangements, as has happened in the past.

Why would they use "grandfathering" when nothing has changed.............

Anyone who have a link or a list with prices in US dollar for different countries to get a visa on arrival in Laos. Mostly interested in the fee for Swedish people

52 minutes ago, NancyL said:

There are several advantages of obtain the O-A retirement visa in your home country, rather than relying on a one-year retirement extension to an O visa, obtaining it in Thailand.

 

One advantage has already been mentioned.  If you don't meet the income requirement, then you don't have to bring 800,000 baht into Thailand, but instead can keep the funds in your home country since that is sufficient proof of financial worth for applying for the O-A in your home country.

 

A couple other advantages -- if properly used, you can obtain two years of life from an O-A visa.  It's a multi-entry visa, with each entry giving you a stamp with a 1 year permission to stay.  So, just before your O-A visa expires, you exit and re-enter Thailand and you'll receive a 1 year permission to stay, expiring almost one year after your visa.  You do have to be sure to purchase a re-entry permit before you leave Thailand during this second year to keep that permission to stay alive because your visa is expired and you've lost the "multi-entry" feature.

 

If you're living in Chiang Mai, you probably know that the local immigration office is not very elder-friendly.  Retirees arrive at 5 am and even earlier to queue for the limited number of slots available each day for processing retirement extensions.  With an O-A retirement visa you can avoid this nightmare for two years.  You still have to do 90 day reports, submit TM30s and get re-entry permits during your second year at this ghastly office -- plan to spend 400 baht in transport from city center, but at least you don't have to arrive early to queue for these services.  90 day reports can be done by mail and sometimes even on-line and some people are fortunate enough to live in a condo or guesthouse that takes care of TM30 reporting for them.

It depends on what country you are from. I'm from Sweden and it's exactly the opposite with the money from what you write. In Sweden the Thai embassy (O-A visa) like to see more than 800k baht when you show money in a Swedish bank in SEK. And with the income method they like to see the income 18500 SEK after tax. which for a normal person paying average tax will be over 100k baht in income. And in Thailand I only have to show 65k per month

7 hours ago, Mattd said:

Trying to fathom the logic, you will have to replace it sooner or later and incur the cost, the only gain by renewing it later would be in 10 years time?

It's every 5 year in my country. Which in real life only let me make four 1 year extensions with the same passport.

Another gain would be that I can change the date of my extension

On 6/7/2017 at 0:44 PM, IMA_FARANG said:

If your country allows it, and the U.S. does you can apply for a new passport when your old passport has only a  short time before it expires.

There is no minimum time you must have on your old passport, you ca apply at any time as long as your U>S passport is still valid.

Once you have a new passport you can then apply for a retirement visa with the new passport.

I have done it before.

Of course, it will cost you the same renewal fee as a new passport.

A new passport will of course, change the date of your retirement visa and it's annual renewal date.

 

A new passport at my embassy cost 6000 baht. And 600 extra if I like to collect it at any consulate. A new extension cost 1900 baht

I can apply for a passport without problem one day before it expire at my embassy. And I can also apply for a new passport after it is expired. But then I need to show a valid ID card also. 

Thanks for all replies

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

If you apply for an extension with less than 12 months of passport validity it will only be issued to the date your passport expires. You will then need to apply for a new extension when the shortened one ends.

It has been a nationwide rule since it was issued in August of 2013.

ok, So this could also be a way to change my yearly extension date if I like to do that? And you are sure Chaeng Wattana will allow me to get a new extension if I have 7 months left on my passport?

I never leave the country when my passport is about to expire. I go to my embassy and apply for a new passport

Hi, Does the Chaeng Wattana office allow me to do a 1 year extension with less than one year left on my passport ? Do I get a shorter extension that will last as long as my passport? Or I can't do it at all? 

And do all immigration offices have the same policy about this?

Can you get a re-entry permit and travel to Cambodia when having the 30 days under consideration stamp for applying for a 1 year extension??

31 minutes ago, Lovethailandelite said:

Tell them you demand a free visa then. I am sure they will oblige you 

That's not the point. I already have a 1 year extension. the point was that you had a really lame excuse when you where wrong :)

7 minutes ago, Lovethailandelite said:

It never actually 'Which' country's 

Yes it say which country. Because it say that they will extend the current 3 month deal for free tourist visa. 

It doesn't say they will make a diffenrent deal with different countries

So what about this???

BANGKOK: -- Thailand’s Cabinet has approved to extend the current free visa incentives for foreign tourists for another six months.

Under the measures, visa fees will be waived at Thai embassies and consulates until August 2017, while the visa on arrival fee will continue to be 1,000 baht.

On Tuesday, government spokesperson Sansern Kaewkamnerd said that waiving visa fees from December to February 28 had resulted in a 12% increase in foreign tourist arrivals.

The move to waive visa fees was first introduced on December 1 2016 and came after a sudden decrease in arrivals from China following last year’s crackdown on zero dollar tours, with number of Chinese tourists visiting Thailand plummeting by 30 percent.

The continuation of the offering free tourist visas for all nationalities is also hoped to give Thailand’s tourism industry a boost as it heads into what is traditionally the low season.

So he can get it even if he is only Swedish. Because he is not a Thai national

A friend of mine from Sweden with Swedish passport have a Thai mother and Swedish father. Can he apply for a 1 years extension because of that? Like a family extension? Or is there an age limit of 20 year? He is above 20.

What's the official fines for not reporting your address? I think I have been reading it here before? 

It's the child who work and live in thailand. And the question was if the parent could get the dependent extension. But I suppose not when the age limit was 20 year......thanks

If a person works in thailand with WP and either non B or 1 year extension. Can the parent of that child get a dependent extension? If so,is there an age limit for how old the child can be?

But When I did my 2 reports I didn't get any e-mail from immigration. I have always got that before. Does it make any difference

Ok thanks, I just cancelled one of the two reports

Ok thanks