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Deleted this comment because it's not at all relevant The O/P FINALLY weighed in and stated they renewed their passport in Germany and that they were given BAD info in germany about how his current extension would be invalid in a cancelled passport 😕 (it would not have been like that)

Careful with that information. 😮 Effective Monday July 14th BOTH the 90 day reporting (Section A) and the TM30 / Resident Certificate (Section B) are moving up one floor at Chaengwattana to the 3rd floor Believe it or not the main immigration office is on the 2nd floor and the banks/food court etc are on the ground floor

@problemfarang that's your best answer try it online 14 days before down until 7 days before the due date and it'll either go thru or it won't. Make sure you match their address to their TM30 (where ever that is) https://tm47.immigration.go.th/tm47/#/login

That is 100% totally FALSE information 😖 👎 The officers at passport control at ALL the exit points (air or land) don't care in the least if you EVER did a 90 day report because that's not their job, they just stamp you out of the country.

I think you're referring to that consulate before they went to the e Visa online system. All three consulates in Malaysia are now not that use friendly

Unless I'm mistaken, when the consulates went to evisa, you could show proof of funds in your country again.

I would imagine that they would charge, most services charge more when you have a "tag-along-thai" or a "thai-in-tow" on a border bounce I'd say just bounce on your own and take your Thai friend another time.

Remember you have to have the 400k baht in your account to get the 90 day non o based on raising Thai child ( or the equivalent in funds in a bank in your country) www.thaivisaservice.com runs to the Thai consulate in Savannakhet, contact them.

The only Visa that requires an interview is the DTV There is no interview for the non-o, non-ed, non-b

Remember the requirements for a Non-O visa are dependent on the consulate you apply thru THIS is what Chicago has posted to get a Non-O visa from them As you can see it's NOT 800k baht OR 65k baht a month, it's 30K USD banked OR 2500USD monthly income https://cgchicago.thaiembassy.org/en/page/o-retirement

Nope, sadly that ship sailed and people are being routinely denied flying in to CNX after milking free 60 day entry stamps too many times. Your best bet is to use a safe entry company and have them bring you in to DMK or BKK (I don't know if they do CNX anymore) SWD Transport does safe entry (they're the border bounce company that's run from On Nut Tesco to the border and back the last 25 years) www.thaivisaservice.com

The ONLY office that gives people a letter stating to come back in 90 days with an updated bank book is Jomtien You will not be asked for anything as far as proof of funds up in Ubon when you go to do your 90 day report. As you correctly pointed out you WILL indeed have issues next year when you go to get your new yearly extension <- because you failed to meet the seasoning requirements of 800K baht banked for 3 months after the extension was issued. BUT you said you have other options so you seem to have it under control 🙂

Most universities in thailand can provide the documentation so you can go to the immigration office and apply for the in country 90 day Non-ED visa based on higher education for 2000baht You WILL need to have a minimum number of days left on your visa exempt entry stamp (most offices require 15 days left except Chiang Mai requires 21) So while you're "browsing around" for universities ASK them if you can do the ED visa inside the country or if you have to go to a consulate in another country to get it IF you have to go to a thai consulate to get the 90 day non-ED visa you can use a nearby one. You go there, you log in to the eVisa system you upload the proof you're IN that country (visa/entry stamp) you upload the documents from the school, you fill out the data and you submit the application (most consulates you pay online too) then you wait IN that country until the visa is approved or rejected

The problem is IF you have an account you just park the 800K baht in (even if you use it once in a while) IF you don't update the bank book about every 3 weeks, all it will print is a summary of money in, money out since the last update AND that's not enough for them to see the balance ALL THE TIME (which is what you have to show them to use banked money method) That's why I always tell people, just go to your bank ORDER the year transaction detail report (the one printed on the old "dot matrix" type paper with the tear off tabs on the sides) because that shows the balance EVERY transaction for the whole previous year

wise choice 👍 best of luck with it

The LTR visa is valid for 10 years, The 5 year is the ENTRY STAMP you get when you show up here

IMHO there is almost NO advantage to having the eVisa via PDF, if you get a new passport you then need to carry the data page of the old passport along with the PDF that is the visa to get stamped in with the new passport 😞 Where as if you have a hard stamp LTR from the office here, if you get a new passport you go get the LTR, the 5 year stamp and the 5 year multiple re-entry permit inked back in without much fan fare at all 🙂 To each their own

Good question, I think you have to APPLY for the visa during that window and then once the consulate approves it and sends you the PDF (which IS your visa) you just print it and show it with your passport when you fly in (no matter when that is during the next 5 years) I would contact LTR on their f/b page because they usually are good about answering questions Dunno why you'd decide to get the LTR thru a thai consulate in the US (and pay more for it) AND then only get a PDF file <- which is your visa and re-entry permit for the next 10 years 😞 (meaning you print that out and present it every time you enter the country) You would be far better served to get the visa approved, come to thailand make the appt at the LTR office go and get the VISA, the 5 year entry stamp and the 5 year re-entry permit inked in to your passport Never the less, here's the f/b page of LTR https://www.facebook.com/LTRVisaThailand

Careful with that.. 😉 As @Liquorice correctly posted the seasoning of banked money method for extension based on married to a that is 2 months (date to date) <- which is not always 60 days. 😮 Had someone hung up out at Chaengwattana on a Friday thinking it was 60 days and they had to come back the following Monday after it seasoned the two months 😕

And this is why you don't watch You Tube videos about anything to do with immigration stuff. Most foreigners don't know sh*t from Shinola about what's what with entry/visa/extensions As @Upnotover correctly pointed out this is a BANGKOK BANK policy and has nothing to do with immigration rules changing (which they have NOT done) Bangkok Bank got called out for all those 'ghost accounts' so they did the typical thai knee jerk reaction, started closing accounts of people on tourist/DTV's and started implementing a new policy to discourage agents from banking funds for people for an hour to get the bank letter, update the bank book etc. They decided to make people have to keep the funds in the account for 4 months instead and they have you sign a paper stating you agree to have the funds "frozen" You are correct insofar as there is no requirement at all to have the 400K baht banked money method based on raising thai child in the account for any length of time other than it has to be in the account on the date you apply for the extension. However many immigration offices follow the same seasoning requirement for thai child extensions as married to a thai ones and require you have the 400K seasoned for 2 months before you apply Check with your immigration office, well before you're going for the extension (just in case they also do the 2 months seasoning) so that you don't run yourself out of time

the landlord doesn't know what they're talking about OR you had a lost in translation moment You can only access, retrieve and PRINT the TM30 receipt within 7 days after you've applied online Just like it says on the landing page of the TM30 system after you log in And this is indeed the receipt you get when you export the data after you search for it

you're far from the first foreigner (or thai) who didn't realize that once you submit the TM30 then you have to go back into the system, search for it, then "export" the file to get the PDF AND That you have to do that within SEVEN days from the date you saved the data 😉 It's right on the landing page at the bottom after you log in just file another one, no problem at all

You will indeed have problems because you have show you met the seasoning requirements for the banked money method of the extension you're on now <- the one where the agent banked the money for you (for a short time) AND Those seasoning requirements are 800K baht in the bank for 3 months AFTER your extension was issued and then the balance can't go below 400K baht the rest of the year until you get it back to 800k a minimum of 2 months before your next extension Because immigration offices require you to get a year detail transaction report from the bank they will see you didn't follow the seasoning rules for the current extension you're on now. That is why most people who try to get off the agent band wagon, either bounce out/back and start the whole Non-O visa/extension process over using their money OR bank 800K baht the day you have the agent extension issued and leave it parked in the account for a year so you can then do the following year's extension on your own using your funds

IF you didn't follow the seasoning requirement for the current extension you're on now (800K baht in the bank for 3 months AFTER the extension is granted, then not letting the balance go below 400K baht the rest of the year until you get it back to 800K baht 2 months before your next extension you will NOT be able to get an extension on your own (without an agent holding your hand or greasing the wheels) because you have to provide a year detail transaction history print out and the immigration office will see that you didn't keep follow the seasoning rules

This is on the LTR official facebook page about the requirements for one year reporting There is no mention about TM30, and remember LTR office is not at Cham Churi Square any more it moved to the One Bangkok Building