Phuket Man

The bank letter shows the amount in the account on the day it is issued.

Nothing more and nothing less.

It is a requirement when applying for an extension when using cash in the bank.

A Visa Exempt Entry gets 30 days that can be extended at Immigration by another 30 days.

That looks to be pretty low speed.

If you have a Visa you do not need onward flight tickets.

Most Thais could not give a toss about noise.

In fact they seem to like it.

So don't expect any help from anyone including the car owner.

11 minutes ago, Naam said:

i object the diction "illegality". we use legally an agent since we arrived 13½ years ago. there is no interesting government office in any country we would like visit and that also applies to the officials working in these offices.

Naam. By the time you go round your house turning off your 14 air conditioners you don't have time to go anywhere. ?

11 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

You have not answered my question.

Do you support this illegality of so called "agents" keeping illegal expats in Thailand?

YES or NO?

I will answer. NO.

Of course not. Why would anyone support it?

Apart from the illegals themselves.

38 minutes ago, Naam said:

why would anyone spend 7 million on a BMW instead of 500k on a March? because they can.

Yes but you get a BMW and not a March.

Do it yourself and you get a 12 month extension.

Pay someone a vast amount of money and you get a 12 month extension which might not even be legal.

So you are paying a ripoff price for a worse product.

On 8/3/2018 at 8:37 AM, vogie said:

I think the people who use agents are the people without cash to use as the reserve of 800,000baht. 

No doubt about you being correct on this.

Why else would anyone waste money?

Yes. The requirement is 90 days continuous stay.

Why are you shouting?

2 minutes ago, Tanoshi said:

Please tell me you applied for your own Thai Driving Licence, or did you need an agent to run you through the various stages.

Perhaps he also uses an agent to go shopping lol.

There is no "Marriage Visa" or "Retirement Visa"

For a 12 month extension based on being married to a Thai Woman you need either 400,000 Baht in the bank for a period of 2 months or 40,000 Baht monthly income.

1 minute ago, Tanoshi said:

If you use the correct terminology, there is no need to nit pick.

No misunderstandings or incorrect information.

 

It's very easy to read what's on a stamp or sticker.

Perhaps if you took more notice of what you are issued, you wouldn't need an agent.

Yep. And we wouldn't have to waste half a page at times trying to work out what questions some people are asking.

Most have no idea what they have in their passport.

30 days at some offices. 45 at others.

Op. You are correct. Should be 31st.

Nexguard spectra for my Golden.

We have not seen a tik for months.

39 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

I was denied boarding on a flight from Canada to Thailand a few years ago, as my passport would have been ONE day under the 6 month limit, when I arrived in Thailand. (My passport had 6 months and 1 day remaining when I went to check-in, but it was a late evening flight and then there was the Date Line crossing. As a result, I was leaving on a Tuesday but not arriving until Thursday, which would have left me 1 day under the 6 month cut-off). (I had planned on arriving and then applying for a new passport from the Embassy the next day as I had done with the current passport a few years earlier.)

The Airline (China Air) refused to let me board because if Thai Immigration refused entry (due to my passport being 1 day under the cut-off) they (China Air) would be required to fly me back at their expense. Rather than take that risk, they simply refused to let me check-in.

I checked the sites noted in posts above and gave a (fictional) passport validity date of just 3 months and none of them gave any indication that I would be denied entry to Thailand (assuming I was coming for just 30 Days and only getting the 30 Day Visa Exempt stamp on arrival).

However, you can argue until you are blue in the face and can cite all the "I know a guy who did this, that and the other thing" stories and show them all the internet sites you like but if the airline refuses to let you board, you are hooped. 
Things may be different now but you could still run into problems if the airline policy says you need "x" number of months of validity remaining. Some of them could have a simple, blanket policy that says "no boarding if any passport is under 6 months of validity". That would cover any country they operated in and cover their butts so that they wouldn't end up having to fly people back at their expense.
Much easier to have a policy like that then to have to research and check every passenger on every flight going to every country to see if "those" countries would accept people from "these" countries if their passports had only "this" amount of validity remaining.

Remember, the problem probably won't be with Thai Immigration, but with the airline you will be travelling on.

The best idea of course is to simply make sure you renew your passport well ahead of time. (In Canada you can renew it anytime when it has less than a year of validity remaining.)
 

"A few years ago" being the key point.

The rule was changed.

7 hours ago, Ian Dunn said:

Thank you chaps, your advice is all indeed useful. 

 

A point for consideration, I  wondered, say, after a year's of retirement visa and I decided to go back to teaching at university or college, would I be allowed to do so? 

You would if you had the correct Visa/Extension and work permit.

This is the site that all airlines use to check passport/visa requirements.

https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/passport-visa-health-travel-document-requirements.htm#

57 minutes ago, EdSize said:

The rule is there for sure, the information is on any official website.

 

Like here

 

http://www.royalthaiconsulate.org.au/ufaqs/can-i-enter-thailand-with-less-than-6-months-validity-left-on-my-passport-it-will-expire-within-6-months-stay-in-the-country/

Rubbish.

Passport has to be valid for the length of stay.

That is a fact. so no problem.

Do not listen to anyone who says otherwise.

They are wrong.

When applying for a 12 month extension (it is not a visa)based on retirement most Immigration offices want the bank letter on the day or the day before application with the bank book updated on the day.