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42 minutes ago, Max69xl said:

There's already been a post about entering on a re-entry permit. No problem as it should because it was an existing extension. 

I have no extension. First year of O-A.

8 minutes ago, Maestro said:

 

You've got a point. We have already gone off topic by discussing the application for the retirement extension based on an O-A visa, so to round it off let's add the entry into Thailand with a re-entry permit based on this type of extension or on the permission to stay obtained with an entry with the O-A visa. It may take a while until we hear from somebody who arrives with this type of re-entry permit so that we may note it for the record.

Me on 25/11

11 minutes ago, Max69xl said:

If you really need it, it will probably be useless because of the low coverage. Paying a lower cost, in your case 45k just to have an insurance is not that smart imo. Then it's much better to change visa to an O with annual extensions when the O-A expires. 

I was planning on doing that.  If, however, what a couple of posters have said that they were forced to get insurance after a re-entry while on an O-A, I will not be ready.  I was planning on having another 15 months on the O-A with the extra nearly one year of permission to stay granted during the 1st year after a re-entry.  I do not yet have the 800K required for an O.  I do have 8 months of 100K income into a Thai bank but that may not work for the O.

1 hour ago, Max69xl said:

What's the point of having a 780k insurance and then 300k deductible? You get a cheaper insurance but the coverage is in most cases useless. 

The point is that many people MUST have insurance that they don't need.  In my case, 200,000 deductible changes my premium from about ฿75,000 to ฿45,000.

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

They would prefer to see the 800k baht in a Thai bank.

 

They all require financial proof. Either the 800k baht in the bank or proof of 65k baht income or it could be both totaling 800k baht.

I am 9 months into my O-A.  I do not have 800k in the bank since I was planning on not needing it for 14 or 15 months but I will be exiting and re-entering this month.  I do have proof of 100K per month but obviously not for 12 months.

21 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

My mate just arrived today at Swampy and was told exactly the same. Given 30days, told to get insurance, go out of Thaialnd & return within 30 days.

Why "Go out of Thailand"?  Can't he get the insurance and just go to the local immigration?

Is it ฿800,000 baht in a Thai bank or is it anywhere?  Do all local consulates require the 800k?

I am flying from Siam Reap to Chiang Mai with a transfer at DMK.  How do I locate the Air Asia fly-thru location and do they still have their own area for immigration?

Where is the easiest/fastest place to get a non-O based on retirement and where can I find the requirements? Avoiding the O-A insurance requirements.

I am on the first year of an O-A.  I will be re-entering Thailand at DMK in a couple of weeks.  What can I expect?

4 minutes ago, Martyp said:

That was the question I asked my Kasikorn branch a couple of years ago. They just told me that a family member could contact the branch and that there would be a process to access the funds. That may very well be probate through the courts.

 

In the US you can short circuit probate with an estate plan. Maybe you can do that in Thailand as well. That would be a question to pose to a lawyer.

Of course that would require a family member and not a gf.

Do Thai banks allow someone to be named as a beneficiary? It is common practice in the US.  In the case of the account holder's death, the money goes to the designated beneficiary.

What prevents someone with a US Transit Visa from just leaving the airport and staying?  Assuming the obtaining a Transit Visa is fairly easy, it would seem this leaves a hole in border security.

3 hours ago, TheAppletons said:

Pretty much any currency exchange location, e.g., SuperRich.

The last time I tried, I had to go to 7 different places before someone actually had any.

What is the easiest way to change some Thai Baht or with a debit card to get a small amount of USD $, like $100.00?

On 10/28/2019 at 6:55 PM, Thaidream said:

I say the only logical way for the whole scheme to work is

"Logical", therein lies the problem.

One thing that happens to me is that I try to access a normal US website but it is blocked because I am not actually in the US.  The simplest thing for me is to use the downloadable Epic Privacy Browser.  It has a built in proxy that bypasses this issue. 

2 hours ago, carbon007 said:

Fully agree that Elite visa or exodus seem to be the options

The problem with the Elite visa is that you pay up front for 5 or 10 years.  You get away with no insurance but 2 years in they change the requirement.  Then you are stuck with getting insurance or loosing your money spent on the Elite visa. 

2 hours ago, Mango Bob said:

I have  life insurance.  Better than this <deleted> that is being offered here and I pay nothing for it except a deductible of $150.  I pay 25% of the bill and if I pay $3,000 in a year everything after that is at no cost to me.  Now beat that or shut up.

 

"Life insurance"?  Do you care to share your age group and where you got this insurance?

12 hours ago, pagallim said:

You need to seriously get a grip.   An OA visa is issued external to Thailand with a well defined qualification criteria.   Now that visa requires that applicants have health insurance to a certain level because the applicant may not have 400,000 baht in the bank in Thailand.   This visa has financial requirements, proof of which may be required on application.

 

The typical retiree here has an O visa, and an extension based on retirement.   We all know what the qualifications for that are.   I think everyone affected by now understands that if going the money in the bank route, there has to be a minimum of 400,000 baht in your account for the whole year.

 

Seriously folks, what is there not to understand?

 

 

Once the O-A holder applies for an actual extension (not the 1st year exit and re-enter extension) they are required to have the same money in a Thai bank as anyone else. 

Do you mean the freelancers weren't always on the beach?

On 10/12/2019 at 9:19 PM, mcl2504 said:

Nissan March

I have used Grab hundreds of times and I get to ride in many different cars.  The Nissan March is far and away the worst piece of junk I have been in.  There appears to be no suspension, something in the back grinds loudly as does the transmission.  This has been my experience with at least 5 different March cars.

Might not be the least expensive but you can't go wrong with a Honda Jazz (in the US known as the Fit)

My original entry was on 1 Mar 2019 and my original permitted day was February 28.  So it looks like they didn't count leap year or at least they used 365.

I am on a 1st year O-A visa.  My original permitted to stay date was 28 February 2020.  I just returned from an overseas trip in CM.  The IOs fumbled around for a while with the date stamp.  So I returned on 14 October with a permitted to stay stamp of 12 October 2020.  Not a big deal, but it seems like they were off  by a day or is there some creative counting being used?

You know it is in bad shape when instead of fluctuating in starts flatulating.