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Don't get much help from expats whose Mrs divorced them. 😂

About '0' visa twelve month extension. Retirement.

Thx

Does anyone know of any good visa agents in or around the Nong Khai area? 

Anyone reading this, believe me, I'm 75 years young and after quitting 39 years ago and taking responsibility of my own health, I keep fit (exercise) at least four days a week and not eating any junk food & never using sugar, apart from what is naturally in food. I reckon it'd be pretty hard to find someone my age more fit than me. This isn't a brag, just an insight into quitting smoking, the sooner the better & feeling like a healthy 40 something year old.

Can Thai immigration officials, or anyone, explain that if you deposit 800,000  baht in a Thai bank account in your own name, then you do not have to have to prove that you have any other means of income? So if this is correct, then what do they think you would live on between renewals? Just curious. ????

So it seems to me that if you have monetary requirements to satisfy the rules, you are a good person, but if you get an extension by other means because you can't meet the requirements alone, then your deemed to be an undesirable because you can't fulfill these requirements. The 90 year old that I presume has lived in Thailand for, must be quite a long time, because he has probably used agents for years, he is now deemed to be undesirable and therefore must be of bad character. I can't meet the Thai requirements, but only because over the years I used my disposable income to support my Thai extended family, who when I met them were extremely poor and I spent 15+ years of most of my income, when I was working paying to build as best a decent life for them as I could, including paying vast amounts on hospital bills for 4 members of the family, who without some ones help, two would probably be deceased now. If I'd been a self centered tight so and so. I would not be writing this comment now and would be financially, cash wise, fairly well off to the tune of around 5 mil Baht, plus my 26,000 a month pension that I now get, but I accept my predicament and have the satisfaction that four people two of which would of been deceased now, are thriving, have a small business.  

What I don't understand is, I if you have to show 65,000 baht incoming to a Thai bank account every month in pension. That is 780,000 THB., according to my calculator. So given that if you have that amount going into a Thai bank account, then you don't need to have any other income of any sort. If you have 800,000 THB and no other income of any sort and supposedly that amount has to stay in your account until you need to get a new extension, what do the Thai immigration think you live on for the 12 months between extensions? I presume if you show 65,000 incoming to your bank account monthly, then I presume when you need to get a new extension, then it shouldn't matter if at the time you apply, if you only have 5  Baht in your account.

Pilotman, I made a contribution to Thailand in excess of 5mil Baht, when I was working. To help a Thai family with hospital bills, build them a half decent home,so they didn't have to sleep on a wooden floor that only had a corrugated tin roof and no walls. These people would of been deceased but for someone intervening monetarily. Do the Thai Government give a hoot about foreigners doing good for Thai people? no they don't. My friends now have a thriving poultry business, instead of driving a buffalo with a wooden plough on rented land to try to exist. Unfortunately now I'm a pensioner on a meagre UK., pension I don't now have the required funding to live in Thailand, but hey I have the satisfaction that I have done a lot of good for some Thai people that their own Government don't give a toss about.

When I first moved to Thailand, back in 1999, the requirement was for 200,000 baht only, to get your visa extension. Then they upped it by 600,000 baht in one go. Maybe they thought it would make it harder for guys to borrow 800,000 from a mate, but I reckon that the number of guys borrowing 200,000 baht, would of been minimalistic compared to now having to use agents because not everybody has 20,000 GBP., or other currency equivalent just sloshing about in his Thai bank account. How they come up with the figure of 65,000 THB pension going into the bank in pension I don't know. In my opinion the majority of people that have the equivalent of GBP 1,600+ a month in pension, would not be looking to stay in Thailand. That figure would mean if you are a Brit, you'd need around GBP 372  a week in pensions. I know a lot of Brits, young ones that don't even earn that. I like to know how they came up with the figure of 65,000 THB a month? did they base it on USA., German, or some other countries that pay decent state pensions, or did they reckon that all well off pensioners that wanted to retire overseas, would want to go to live in LOS. I think they got that one wrong if that is what they thought.