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On 7/20/2025 at 7:40 PM, Mark1969 said:

Do you do the 90 day reports, or just forget about it?

Always.  EXTREMELY simple.

There are only a few Luc Gagnon's in Terrebonne, Quebec on Facebook.  He is likely one of them:

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Luc Gagnon Terrebonne%2C Quebec

Drop him a message and I'm sure he will be happy.

2 minutes ago, 300sd said:

Since when has the Canadian consulate needed to verify the income statement?

 

Their income letter to the Thai immigration says: in paraphrase, that "according to the clients affidavit and supporting documents, he/she receives x amount per month for visa renewal. They also confirm the passport (that had to be notarized if not in attendance) is valid. They also state that: "the Gov't of Canada accepts no responsibility or liability for the above named individual!"

So show me where they have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that these papers from the client are accurate? If they are not accurate the letter has covered their liability. So like I said, they can't be bothered anymore and they think we are dumb enough to believe their excuse.

And as I mentioned above we could in 1 minute easily login in front of them and show them via the Canada Revenue Agency website what our income is.  Unless they think we can hack the government website?

Not sure what the reason they are stopping is but it's not because they can't be sure of the info.

29 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

 

As has just been pointed out above:

 

 

Are you suggesting that all Canadians citizens are honest?

I'm not following how my post relates to anyone's honesty?

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.

18 hours ago, Rob Browder said:

With the DTV - those going that route should assume they will need to pay some sort of agent-service for their re-entries, or face potential problems.  And, it may cost more per-entry than what serial-visa-exempt users must pay agents per-entry at the airports (2K to 3K baht).  Hopefully, the known-safe entry points will not play these games, but I would make no bets.

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

On 12/3/2024 at 9:37 AM, Phillip9 said:

 

The difference with those abuses is that immigration is making a lot of money off of them, so they tolerate it.  

 

Immigration seems to make nothing off the DTV and that alone could lead them to hassle DTV holders. 

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.

On 12/3/2024 at 9:51 AM, Scouse123 said:

I am informed once you have it, you can just hold on to it, without using it until later in the year.

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.  🙂

4 hours ago, Scouse123 said:

My issue, same as other long term expats is that once it gets abused, which it will, how swift and what sweeping changes will come into effect, changing the criteria in obtaining one.

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! 😀

11 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

A big question I have for any of you guys that have switched from retirement extensions to DTV, did you wait until your retirement extension had fully expired, or did you apply successfully before the expiry date of your extension??????

 

Lastly, did you apply in home country or over this way, in a neighbouring country, such as Laos or Cambodia? 

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.

1 hour ago, impulse said:

 

But the same is true of cash users.  I can't count the times I got behind some lady digging into the bottom of her purse to look for some coins to pay the exact amount instead of forking over a 100 baht note and getting some change back.

 

My old lady is that lady. 😄

6 minutes ago, NowNow said:

 

Use the Natural function.

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.

On 2/16/2024 at 10:16 AM, Jimi007 said:

The income has to be from a pension. I do believe a Government pension. My income is mainly from my several rental properties. I have been doing retirement visas since 2006 and it was easy to do. Get a letter from my consulate. When the USA, Canada, UK and Australia said they don’t certify anything pretty much, Thailand said we are not going to allow you to use the affidavit from your Embassy/consulate any longer.

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.

On 5/30/2023 at 11:26 AM, tariikjamiil said:

I know this is probably not the exact issue. I can find a slot. but i'm not getting the OTP to verify, no matter what number i use, i tried mine, my friends and so many others, same.

 

anyone else faced that same issue?

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

29 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

The the first 5 is village number and the 2nd one is the number assigned to the condo building.

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.  ????

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

 

Not an error. Normally they are written as 5/5 for village number and then house or building number for example. Mine has 3 digit numbers for village and house number (xxx/xxx).

Ok, so in my case where does the second 5 come from?  Did you just duplicate the road number?

Thanks Joe,

The field doesn't accept the '#' character so I used: The S Condo Unit 519.

For the Address no. did you mean "5" and not "5 5"?  I'm guessing the second 5 was a typo?

Hi,

Looking for some input from someone who lives in a condo and has successfully filled out an online 90 day report.

Trying to fill out my first 90 day online report.  I live in a condo building and some of the address fields aren't obvious to me.  My address is:

#519 The S Condo

5 Siri Mangkalajarn Rd Lane 1

Tambon Su Thep, Mueang Chiang Mai District

50200, Thailand

The available fields are:

Building Name/Owner Name:

Address No.:

Soi/Road:

State/Province:

City/Amphur:

District/Tambon:

So,

Building Name: The S Condo

Address No.: ???

Soi/Road: ???

State/Province: Chiang Mai

City/Amphur: Mueang Chiang Mai

District/Tambon: Suthep

Any idea what I need to use for "Address No." and "Soi/Road" based on my condo address above?  I'm assuming they do want to know my room # in the building but no idea where it should go.

Thanks!

3 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

First, top up your account to say 500 baht. Use 10 baht top ups at a machine to increase expiry to 365 days.

 

Enable international roaming.  https://www.ais.th/roaming/en/register.html

 

Consider WiFi Calling.  https://www.ais.th/4g/vowifi/en/

 

No need for a package, unless you want one. Simply turn on your phone, get a signal (or use WiFi calling), then request an SMS OTP, it should come through. 

 

According to AIS's info:  https://www.ais.th/roaming/en/package.html

 

Receiving SMS while abroad is Free of Charge.

 

Sending an SMS from the U.S. to thl would be 9.63 baht.

Brilliant, thanks @mtls2005!  I've done all this except for WiFi calling which AIS doesn't support on my phone (Pixel 1).  That's really cool that OTP SMS's come through for free.