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You qualify for a 45 day visa exempt entry that can be extended for 30 days. A visa on arrival is just that. It means you have to apply for a visa when entering the country. Normally it is only for 15 days and that cannot be extended. See this list of countries. Visa Exempt and VOA countries Sept 2022.pdf

That is not the official Thailand elite website. See: https://www.thailandelite.com/#/

I assume have a visa exempt entry not a visa on arrival you applied for when entering the country and paying 2000 baht for it. 1. You can apply for a non-o visa at immigration up to the last 15 days from your 45 day visa exempt entry or the 30 day extension of it. There is no minimum number of days to do it. 2. Yes if your are living in Bangkok. 3. No insurance it required to apply for a non-o visa or a extension of stay based upon retirment. 4. Requirments for the non-o visa application is here: https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9.FOR-RETIREMENT-PURPOSES-50-YEARS-OLD-NON-O.pdf

Your report was due 90 days from the day you entered the country. You need to do it now. You are within the 7 days after your report was due.

Just confusion since this forum is for Thailand not Vietnam and other countries. Edit: Now moved to the visas for other countries forum.

Just the same incorrect and out of date information. Visa exempt extensions have been allowed since 2014 and that has not been changed.

The approval e visa application are approved by the embassy or consulate your application was sent to. There is no central location for where they are sent to here in Thailand.

None at this since they increased it to 45 days. Before only Cambodia and Myanmar got a 14 day entry under a bilateral agreement. Or are you confusing a visa exempt entry with a visa on arrival that was 15 days after applying for and paying the 2000 baht fee for it. Those countries that qualify for one get 30 days now.

You can get more than 6 months of total stay with a METV by entering the country for one more entry just before the visa expires to get a new 60 day entry and then a 30 day extension of it.

That is the amount of time the visa is valid to use for entry. Most I have seen states 3 months not 90 days.

The 30 day extension of stay for a visa exempt entry is certainly available. People are applying for them every day at immigration. A embassy is not a good source of info about visa exempt entries and the extension of them or for that matter anything done at immigration. Some embassies have info on their websites that is over a decade old.

Wrong website. That is for 90 day reporting not a report of a person arriving at a residence. He is using the correct website for what he wants to do. The website he is using is not on the extranet.

You should wait a while longer to get the approval. This is only the 3rd business day for immigration since you did the report.

You can apply for a non-o visa at immigration and then during the last 30 days of the 90 day stay from the non-o visa apply for a one year extension of stay based upon retirement. Requirements for the non-o visa is here. https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9.FOR-RETIREMENT-PURPOSES-50-YEARS-OLD-NON-O.pdf

Your wife does not have to be with you.

You could submit another 90 day report on or before December 5th.

I see no reason for you to have problems after being out of the country since October. People that had problems just left the country and came right back. You will get a 45 day visa exempt entry that can be extended for 30 days.

About the same as mine but I mailed mine in July. I was checking the USPS tracking for it and Thai post. I did a lost parcel report to the USPS and then it finally arrived on October 13.

Wrong from for a extension of stay. A TM7 form is used for it.

It can still depends upon the office approving it. They are sent to the immigration office for where you are living. Some just approve when they receive it without checking previous records.

Border crossings to Myanmar are closed for foreigners.

They do not use it.

It has not hanged if leaving from either airport in Bangkok. Other airports with international flights might not waive the overstay fine.

As long as you go through immigration prior to midnight on December 22nd you will not be on a overstay.

I just opened it using Chrome and it shows the captcha code. Maybe try clicking on change it to see if gives you one then.