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Yes if living in Bangkok. Yes

You can apply for one 30 day extension of your visa exempt entry. After that you could leave and reenter the country to get a 45 day visa exempt entry now and extend it for 30 days.

If you can prove you have purchased a condo valued at 10 million baht or more, and/or part of it in a bank and etc you can apply for a non-b visa and one year extension. Source number 5 here. https://www.immigration.go.th/en/?page_id=1890 And non-b visa here. https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/14.FOR-INVESTMENT-NOT-LESS-THAN-BAHT-10000000-NON-B.pdf

1. Health insurance is only required if you entered the country with Non-OA visa and extended it for retirement. If you used a Non-o visa for entry and have extended it insurance is not required. 2, No

Certainly not a problem leaving by air.

Normally it is not a problem to leave the country without cancelling your extension of stay. There were a few rare posts in the past of a couple of border crossings sending people to the nearby immigration office to have it cancelled. It will not affect applying for a tourist visa since you will not have a valid re-entry permit.

Best to keep the 400k baht in the bank until you get the extension stamp. They have asked or the proof before at Chaeng Wattana.

He was asking about the medical insurance being required for a extension of stay not covid 19 insurance previously required for entry to the country.

I can recall several posts about Penang issuing a multiple entry non-o visas prior to covid 19. Also a few for Savannakhet. No sure if they will do them now. It was on the Penang website before but the site has no info about visas on it now.

The nationality act was amended in 2008 to allow foreign husbands to apply for Thai nationality without having PR first.

The e visa site has not been updated to remove the STV. The order for STV's was not extended.

If you have proof of 40k baht or more of income proven by tax payments it should be accepted. You will need your work permit to prove your are working legally and possibley a copy of the company registration documents. It does matter if it is BOI company or not.

If staying in Nonthaburi you would apply at the immigration office there.

You can keep your passport from your home country unless they do not allow dual nationalities.

That makes no difference. You have to be working to apply.

You have to be working with a work permit and paying taxes for at least 3 years.

Not that hard to get Thai nationality. See the last few pages of this long ongoing topic. dbrenn's story of Thai citizenship application

No need for a border run to get a new visa exempt entry and entries are now 45 days. If longer than 45 days a 30 day extension can be applied for at immigration. At this time the border crossings to Myanmar are closed for foreigners.

You can apply for PR if married and have a family. If married to a Thai you can apply for Thai nationality without getting PR first.

Only until March 1st. Here is a complete list of visa exempt entries by country. List of visa empept and bilateral agreements.pdf Note that some countries in ASEAN are also on the standard visa exempt list and they will get a 45 day entry.

There is no ASEAN visa exempt entry. Each country has their own rules. For Thailand they are under bilateral agreement and entry will be for 30 days for those that are allowed them. This from a list of countries for visa exempt entries and etc.

Unless using a friendly immigration office that will accept 2 transfers from abroad into a Thai bank that is allowed according to the police order you will have to show at least 12 months of transfers from abroad.

There is no requirement to prove the 400k baht came from abroad. You can open an account in your name only and transfer the 400k baht to that account from you joint account.

There are buses from Chiang Mai to Udon Thani and then you can get a bus to either Vientiane or the bridge in Nong Khai.

You don't have to have 45,000 baht a month. That is just the wrong number if using the income option. You must have 12 months of of at least 40k baht to apply unless you can get proof income from you embassy. You can put 400k baht in the bank for 2 months to apply for the extension of stay and leave there as long as you want to or take out of the bank after your extension is approved. There is no 20k baht requirement for any thing you do at immigration.l That is for amount needed in the bank for a extension based upon retirement.