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Correct, the COR addresses the purpose of its use. My IO request a letter from the bank, DLT, or vehicle dealership, requesting the COR in the first instance.

The standard letter requested by Immigration only confirms your name, account number and the balance, which must match the balance on the statement. The letter to which I believe you are referring to is not a standard letter they normally issue. Those above monthly transfers are itemised on a bank statement, but the IO's are simply to lazy to look (or not understand) so they request the bank itemise just the monthly overseas transfers.

You should be adding a new payee to your UK bank account using the Wise account details they sent, which is a UK account.

Thanks for the correction. After your 0-A had expired, you changed the reason for the 1 year extension of permit of stay to marriage.

Apologies, so it's just a hearsay account from a third party who obviously didn't have a clue, but it's the IO's fault - got it.

It's not the IO's responsibility to complete the TM30. Why didn't you suggest it and complete it there and then?

To make a formal change of address, you need to file a new TM30.

The 0-A visa can only be applied for based on retirement.

To be fair, there is a reference to NON-Thai social welfare being accepted, but must be certified by a foreign Embassy in Thailand, OR, a certification letter of authorised person's signature by a notary public from the Ministry of Foreign affairs.

Can you provide a link to either a Thai Embassy or Thai Immigration to support your claim that either accept Social Security Health schemes for the Non O-A application, or extensions of stay from entry of a Non O-A visa. I can only find the TGIA approved Insurers or a Foreign Insurance company prepared to sign the foreign Health Insurance certificate as acceptable. Is the SS Health scheme hidden somewhere in the small print?

Tourism is booming since the VE was changed to 60 days on arrival. Thai baht has strengthened against other currencies for that reason, just look at current exchange rates.

Yes. It should detail your next due report date.

You asked why your Embassy couldn't substantiate your proof of income. I just answered the procedure to authenticate your proof of income.

Doubtful. In most cases, when Embassies have switched to the e-visa online system, the Non Imm O ME was no longer available. Once you choose the applicable Embassy, then from a drop-down box, the types of Non O visas on offer will be displayed. If, as the MFA announced, all Thai Embassies switch to the e-visa online system by the end of this year, then the Non O ME could disappear for good. I suspect Lao will be the last to go down the e-visa application line.

Well, why didn't you say that before. To authenticate a US document. https://th.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/local-resources-of-u-s-citizens/notaries-public/authentication-procedure/ 1. First, have the document certified by the entity that issued it. 2. Then by the state in which that entity is located 3. Then by the Federal Government of the US state department. 4. Have the document translated into Thai 5. Then have the document and translation legalised by the Consular section of Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Immigration will then accept that authenticated foreign legalised document as genuine. There, fixed it for you! 🙂 Let us know how you get on next year.

Which part of an 0-A visa doesn't permit working, obtaining a work permit, to be able to pay into the SS scheme didn't you understand. The 0-A is issued purely on the basis of retirement - employment prohibited > no work permit > no SS contributions. What has this to do with switching from an O-A to an O visa?

It was either approved as your title suggests, or you were asked to resubmit - which one was it?

Perhaps because the O-A doesn't permit employment.

You first successfully registered on the TM30 site, then submitted and had it approved? If approved, you can print a receipt off or take a screenshot.

You used an agent, and therein lies your issue. Your extension was obtained from an IO where the agent had 'connections'. In this case from Bangkok from the sound of it, so you were registered at some 'bogus' address in the Province where the extension was issued. If you look at your extension stamp, it will state which IO issued it. To now file 90-day reports at CM where you actually reside, you need to file a new TM30 with CM.

chiang mai later posted;

That's perhaps because they don't state their nationality, or if they do, it's usually UK, US or Australian. Likewise, some Countries do not have an Embassy in Thailand to issue such Income letters. There are 195 recognised Countries in the world, but only 78 foreign Embassies in Thailand.

You can't extend a visa. You extend your permission of stay, which is a permit (of stay) hence the need for a re-entry permit. The OP's friend won't have any problems entering if he has a re-entry permit. He will be stamped in up to the expiry date of his current 1-year permission of stay.

Provided he obtained a re-entry permit before departing, on re-entry he will be stamped in until the expiry date of his current 1-year extension.

1st Nov 2019 was the date they introduced the mandatory Health Insurance requirement for Non Imm 0-A visa applications. At that time there was a lot of discussion whether it would also apply to extensions applications from new entries on an O-A, and/or for those already on extensions from a previous 0-A visa, the consensus being the new requirement would be grandfathered and only apply to new extension applications from Nov 2019. Immigration subsequently issued a new order making the requirement retrospectively, effectively backdating the requirement to apply to all extension applications from all 0-A visa entries.