BrandonJT

Legally, yes you must cancel your extension. You signed a document that stated you would notify immigration of any change in your status, and it appears you will stop studying and that is a change in status. You would need to get a letter from university that states the date you will end your studies, and then take that letter to the immigration office that issued your extension. You can usually do this 1-2 weeks in advance of the date on the letter. They will cancel your extension and then stamp you back in until the date on the letter. If you never plan to get another long-term visa or extension in Thailand again, then you are probably safe to ignore it. On the other hand, if you do plan to get one, or not sure, then you would want to do cancel it as the penalty for not doing so is the same as overstay, 500 baht per day up to a maximum of 20,000 baht, regardless of if you are in Thailand or not.

The 10 years starts the day the visa is issued. You must first apply for the visa with the BOI, and go through their application process online. Once they approve they will issue you an endorsement letter, and you can then apply to a Thai embassy through the e-visa system using the endorsement letter you received. Once the embassy issues the visa, it is good for 10 years from that date, though it's actually only going to allow you to enter Thailand for 5 years before you must re-qualify to receive your 2nd 5 years. Or you can apply online, and once the BOI approves your visa, you can then travel to Thailand and pickup the visa from the BOI office at One Bangkok. This is actually the method I recommend for 2 reasons. You will pay exactly 50,000 baht and won't have to pay the inflated visa price from a Thai embassy which in almost all cases will be more than 50,000 baht You will get an actual visa in your passport, so you don't have to carry a printed out PDF e-visa with you for 10 years.

They've stated there will be an app in the future. That might come along with some type of account or profile, even if just saved on your device.

Because the monthly transfers are a work-around for those who cannot get the income affidavit. If you can get the income affidavit, that's what you should do, and some immigration offices might even require that if you can get it. You also CANNOT use the monthly transfers for the first 1-year extension, whereas you CAN use the income affidavit for the first 1-year extension. The affidavit is better in all aspects.

The agent you spoke to is correct. It's only the extension that needs to be cancelled. If you are still on the original 90-day non-B visa, then you do not need to cancel anything, and even if you resign you can stay until the end of your current 90-day non-B entry stamp.

Good thing I wasn't talking to you. I was responding to the Op who clearly says they will be staying in Thailand about 10 months per year. Which means they will be going back and forth and can bring things over time. Learning to read and understand is an important skill in life. So is realizing that not everything is about YOU.

Another brilliant comment from random farang who has no idea what they are talking about. Last time I counted, 3 days was more than the only the current day. Almost like it matches EXACTLY what they've advertised and claimed, that you can do it within 3 days of your arrival. Funny that, eh?

As most border bounce agents pre-clear the passports of their customers with the border ahead of time, I would assume, and hope, that the agent would just do the TDAC as part of that process since it's free, easy and fast. But hard to make assumptions when it comes to Thais as they don't tend to have motivation to go out of their way. It would expedite the process and prevent any issues from coming up though which would be beneficial to their operation.

That's the kicker. You never know what the exact import duties will be until they tell you. Because they are the ones that will determine the value of your belongings regardless of if they are used, you have receipts to show the price etc. They will tell you what the value is, and what you will have to pay.

This is the official list from Bangkok, as posted by Tod Daniels on Facebook.

You would need to check with your immigration office. Some offices will not accept joint counts at all. For those immigration offices that will accept a join account, you must double all amounts as only 50% of the money is considered yours. I have never heard of anyone trying to do the monthly transfers to a joint account, only the banked money method.

No, that's what the DTV is for.

You can use monthly income to get the non-O visa from the Thai embassy. But then once you get to Thailand, you cannot use income for the first 1-year extension. You would need to deposit the 800k and have it in your Thai bank account for at least 2 full months before you can apply for your extension. Once you get the extension, your bank account must remain at 800,000 for 3 months after, and then it can never drop below 400,000. While you are doing this, you can start doing the monthly transfer. The following year, after your first annual extension is ending, if you can show 12 full months of monthly transfers exceeding the required amount (you said retirement so that's 65,000 per month) you would then be able to show that for your 2nd year extension. Once you receive that extension, you could then remove the 400,000 from your Thai bank account and continue doing monthly transfers for as long as you want to live in Thailand.

Just bring what you want with you over time in your suitcases. Any other method you are going to pay customs fees where it won't make sense.

I'm honestly amazed at how wrong all of this information is. You literally have no idea what you are talking about. Good luck surviving in Thailand with this understanding.

Just poor marketing in general. Among all of the Facebook visa groups, the LTR is rarely mentioned, and people that have done a little bit of research on retirement visas have never heard of the LTR visa.

That is an exception, not normal.

READ THE POST "and I don't have the 400,000 Baht seasoned" THE PROBLEM IS THE MONEY IS NOT SEASONED. His permission to stay ends in 6 weeks. The money needs to be in the bank for TWO MONTHS. 6 weeks is less than two months. So how do you show the money is in the bank for 2 months? You get permission to stay in Thailand for an extra 2 months which gives a total of 3.5 months until needing to apply for the 1-year extension. I certainly know both how to read, how to understand what the problem is, and how to use the available tools to solve it. You seem to only be able to read a single thing and focus in on it and keep the solution inside a small box. I have given the exact way for the op to go about not having to leave the country and to get their 1-year extension. Case closed. I'm done with you.

Are you just daft? The OP needs extra time for his money to the in the bank for 2 months. Please learn how to read. How do you get extra time so you can show the money was in the bank? You apply for the 60-day visiting Thai family extension. That's the exact amount of time that the Op needs. And it solves the problem. You are just making things confusing and making a huge issue that doesn't exist.

We are not talking about a marriage extension! Stop confusing things! This is the 60-day visiting Thai family extension. You can use it for a Thai relative, a Thai child, a Thai spouse. It IS NOT A MARRIAGE EXTENSION. https://piv-phuket.com/60-day-family-extension/

Literally everywhere. The 400,000 baht is a requirement for the Non-O visa based on marriage to Thai and for a one-year extension based on marriage to Thai. The 60-day visiting Thai family extension does not have any financial requirement and never has.

The 60-day visiting Thai family extension does not require any funds. That would be to give him time for the funds to be in the account already for 2 months in order to apply for the 1-year extension.

The old passport would not be valid. You cannot enter on it. The standard practice for all other visas is you get a new passport, you show your old passport and your new passport along with the visa. Since the visa is in the old passport, they would stamp you in until when the previous passport was valid. But they most certainly will not use an old passport that has been invalidated as 99.9% of countries do when you get a new passport.

Actually the BOI only assists/endorses opening an account at Bangkok Bank or Kasikorn. Though you shouldn't have a problem opening your own account at any other bank that accepts foreigners with a 10-year visa. Their demand for the endorsement letter is asinine though. How do they think you got the visa if you didn't get the letter? They just like putting up artificial impediments and hoped that you would go away and not come back. You are lucky they didn't add a new requirement the 2nd time you get back, as many banks are known to multiple times trying to get you to go away.

METV doesn't even mean anything anymore. Multiple reports of people doing a 3rd border bounce at the end of their METV and being pulled out of line and interrogated about what they think they are doing, as they've already spent almost 6 months in Thailand and are clearly not a tourist. Tourist visas don't mean anything anymore. Either act like a tourist or expect problems if you don't have a long-term visa.