RoninTech

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. ????

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!

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.

I am with Bangkok Bank and have an AIS pay as you go SIM (300THB for unlimited data for 30 days at 20Mbps). After doing a few 20THB top-ups the SIM is good until December and the BB app and internet banking is setup and working great in Thailand. I need to go back to Canada for the summer and may need to access my Bangkok bank account. Both internet banking and mobile app banking end up sending an SMS to my Thai number for information and in some OTP cases, verification. How are people getting SMS's sent to their Thai SIM while in another country? Are you paying for expensive roaming packages or does it just work if you have the Thai SIM in your phone? Thanks for any info.

We just finished our first extensions. Made online appointments yesterday for the Canadian consulate in Chiang Mai and the immigration office. At the consulate I showed my Canadian Tax return with total income being above 65K THB x 12. Also showed our original marriage certificate. 1250 THB and 20 mins later we had 2 stamped affidavits of income/marriage. When we first sat down at the consulate I showed our bank and investment statements. The lady would not accept these as they don't show 64K THB/month "income" no matter how big the balance is. Fortunately I had my annual tax return showing total annual income which she did accept. We took these affidavits to the immigration office along with TM7 stating "retirement" for me and "spouse" for wife, TM30 plus a copy, passport pages, 1 passport photo each, TM47, copy of TM6, copy of marriage license and 2 x 1900THB. Arrived at 1pm and left at 2pm including 20 mins getting our TM30s. No under consideration, and other than 90 day reports we are good until 45 days before January 7, 2023 when we will repeat the process. As we were basking in the glow of successful extensions we forgot to ask about getting a single re-entry permit for 1000 THB so will go back for that to avoid extra hassle on departure from Bangkok. Very happy to avoid having to move 800K x 2 here so if your embassy/consulate still gives out these affidavits I'd highly recommend looking into it.

I just opened a Bangkok Bank account yesterday and I am receiving SMS messages for all transactions. For example a 10 baht tip on Grab. Had to pay 30THB per month for the feature though and they told me no option to receive emails instead. Maybe if you don't pay you only get notifications on larger amounts?

Found it.

Cheers Bruno. Don't suppose you have an image of the new deal that I could show when I go the store?

Are packages like this still available from AIS? Just about get out of ASQ and there's an AIS store around the corner.

Thought I'd post an update for future searchers of this topic. We both applied for Non-Immigrant O (over 50) visas from Canada via the thaievisa.go.th website. We simply uploaded our last 3 months of bank and investment statements. No guarantee letter and/or signed/stamped statements were required by the Thai consulate in Vancouver. We called to confirm this before we applied. We now have our Non-Immigrant O visas. We also spoke with the Canadian consulate in Chiang Mai who confirmed that they will supply an affidavit letter of income for my 1 year extension and we will have our original Marriage Certificate so wife can get an extension based on being my dependent. So no 800K transfers to Thai bank required. Thanks again for all the advice!

We are a Canadian couple in our 50's looking to come back to Thailand for a minimum 6 month time period. Last year we came on a 60+30 day tourist Visa and stayed for a few months via the Covid extensions. It worked out great but it sounds like this is coming to an end and we don't want to deal with the stress of maybe having to leave early. We are not looking to work or go to school. Ideally we would like to spend half the year in Thailand and half the year in Canada. After looking at the options it appears that the Non-Immigrant O-A visa would be the way to go (please advise if we are missing other options). Some questions we have about this are: - Official page says "Financial evidence : a guarantee letter from the bank and a copy of bank statement showing a deposit of the amount equal to and not less than 800,000 THB". "The bank" is in Thailand right? Wife is worried we have to get this from our Canadian bank who have told us they cannot provide a "guarantee letter". - We are not clear if we can leave and come back to Thailand with the O-A Visa? - Official page says says "Can be extended for 1 year every year". Does that mean after we receive the O-A visa we can get multiple extensions without re-applying all over again? - Can the annual extensions work with the afore mentioned ability to leave Thailand and come back every year? - In the past we were under the impression we couldn't open a Thai bank account while on a tourist visa. What is the typical "800K into a Thai bank account" process for people applying for the O-A while on a tourist visa? Thanks in advance for any info/comments on this stuff!