RoninTech

I would add a preparation step to OP that says to check whether your country's embassy/consulate provides affidavits of income. If they do then you don't have to prove funds in a Thai bank, it can be in your home country bank account. For example Canadians can get affidavits of income at the Chiang Mai consulate for a small fee. Just take proof of income to the consulate. Statement of income works as proof and can be downloaded for free from Revenue Canada website.

So the legend of the prophet is true! What else did you see in your premonition?

Yeah, I guess the only way they could get in on the act is if people decide to extend the DTV in-country. I imagine most DTV'ers will just bounce out and back rather than extending to minimize any interaction with immigration.

Makes sense. As it is now you could wait 4 years and 364 days before entering on it then come in and get 180 days and a 180 day extension on top of that. So if you time it right the DTV can be a 6 year visa. I grew up with Shankly/Paisley and never thought I'd see this kind of progression again. Long may it continue. 🙂

Aren't Non-O Retirement visas/extensions also abused all the time by people without the 800K/65K who just pay agents to fake the money in a Thai bank requirement? Has the Non-O retirement had sweeping changes due to those abuses? As long as you meet the stated requirements and don't use any sketchy workarounds I don't see why the DTV would be picked on any differently than say the Non-O retirement. P.S. What a week to be a Red! 😀

We applied for non-o retirement visas in late July while in Canada. At the time, we had no active visa as we did not get a re-entry permit for our previous non-o's. The day after we were approved for our non-o's, the YouTube video from Retired Working For You (RW4U) that explained a lot of the mystery behind the DTV came out and we realized it was perfect for us. We called the Vancouver consulate and they told us to re-apply for the DTV and they'd let us switch if approved or stay on the non-o's if declined. I immediately applied for the DTV and 2 hours later I was approved and the next day so was my wife. All this happened while we were in Canada. EDIT: Apologies, just realized you said "switched from retirement extension". We had been approved for the 90 day non-o and were not yet on an extension. Our previous non-o retirement extensions had lapsed as we didn't get re-entry permits.

I've entered twice on my 5 year "approved for remote work but no intention to work" DTV with no questions asked. No proof of income was required, just 500K THB in my Canadian account, certificate of incorporation of my 2-person (me and wife) Canadian tech corp. and a letter from my company CEO (me) saying I have permission to work remotely anywhere. Wife has also entered twice with no questions (follower on my DTV). The questions will come if you try to extend at an immigration office with their unique rules. We both switched from our retirement non-o's as the DTV fits our situation so much better. Plan is to stay below 180 days in '24 and '25 and observe. Can always switch back to non-o retirement if there is an issue with DTV. 🙂

My old lady is that lady. 😄

That makes it go up and down from slow to fast. Looking for just slow speed as this fan is too fast on low.

Is there any way to drop the fan speed so that low isn't so strong? Always suspected something wasn't right and then last night we visited friends with the same fan and their low speed was much gentler than ours and felt correct. Everything else seems to work fine on the fan. Not sure if there is an issue with ours or if they sold different speed versions.

To any Canadians that read this, Canada did not stop issuing affidavits of income like the US, UK and Australia did a few years ago. After making an appointment, simply show up to your local embassy/consulate with your Revenue Canada proof of income statement downloaded from their website for free. It can be any income, not just "from a pension". This info is based on experiences at the Canadian consulate in Chiang Mai and the Chiang Mai immigration office where my Canadian wife and I both apply for annual Non-O extensions based on retirement (me) and trailing spouse (missus). Since my wife is a trailing spouse, only I have to show statement of income while she shows marriage license, also confirmed by consulate/embassy. Easy peasy and no need to transfer large sums of money into Thailand that you don't want to. I'm pretty sure other countries also allow this, but definitely not US, UK and Australia.

No luck with either my Canadian VOIP number or my current Australian SIM. Trying to make a visa appointment for when I arrive there in 10 days . Even though it lets you enter numbers from all over the world, maybe it requires a Malaysian number to work?

Awesome, thanks Joe.

We got lucky and they accepted our on line check in, even though I have no idea about the village number and so didn't provide it. Took a screen shot and will always use the same values for future 90 day check ins. Thanks all! For the record, here is what I entered for the non-pull down fields based on my address above: Building Name/Owner Name: The S Condo Unit 519 Address No.: 5 Soi/Road: Siri Mangkalajarn Rd Lane 1

How did you determine that my village number was 5? Apologies for the questions. I'm trying to get enough info to where I can figure out the correct address myself no matter what building I live in. Might help future searchers as well. ????