OA visa based on retirement

[dhi101]

Hello i am an Australian in thailand on a 6month visa with 30 days remaining if i fly to singapore can I obtain an O A visa based on retirement I have all the documents and the 800000Bt in Thai bank it has been there 9 months it says on singapore website they only give that visa to singapore nationals thanks

[ubonjoe]

You can only apply for a OA visa in your home country or country of legal residence.

You could apply for a one year extension of stay at immigration.

[KhunBENQ]

18 minutes ago, dhi101 said:

I have all the documents and the 800000Bt in Thai bank it has been there 9 months

And over 50 years old?

 

Then why travel to Singapore when you can get the one year extension at your local immigration office?

[dhi101]

4 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

You can only apply for a OA visa in your home country or country of legal residence.

You could apply for a one year extension of stay at immigration.

What visa would the one year extension of stay be I went to immigration at Kanchanaburi they told me i needed to get an OA visa

[ubonjoe]

4 minutes ago, dhi101 said:

What visa would the one year extension of stay be

It is not be a visa of any kind. It is a extension of the 90 day permit to stay from a non immigrant category O visa.

You can apply for a change of visa status to get the 90 day entry at immigration up to the last 15 days of any of the 60 day entries from your tourist visa.

The money you have in bank is enough to apply for the visa and then an extension of stay during the last 30 days of the 90 day entry from the visa.

[dhi101]

14 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

It is not be a visa of any kind. It is a extension of the 90 day permit to stay from a non immigrant category O visa.

You can apply for a change of visa status to get the 90 day entry at immigration up to the last 15 days of any of the 60 day entries from your tourist visa.

The money you have in bank is enough to apply for the visa and then an extension of stay during the last 30 days of the 90 day entry from the visa.

Sorry Ubonjoe I am new to this I have a 6month tourist visa with about 32 days left so I can go to immigration and get a 90 day permit to stay then when i have 30 days left on that 90 day permit to stay I apply for a 12 month extension of stay is that it do i need doctors certificate or police check or just letter from bank

[ubonjoe]

4 minutes ago, dhi101 said:

Sorry Ubonjoe I am new to this I have a 6month tourist visa with about 32 days left so I can go to immigration and get a 90 day permit to stay then when i have 30 days left on that 90 day permit to stay I apply for a 12 month extension of stay is that it do i need doctors certificate or police check or just letter from bank

Correct 

No medical certificate or police check is needed.

Just the bank letter confirming the balance and your updated bank book. For the visa application the bank letter must confirm the funds came from abroad. The money will need to be in the bank for 60 days on the date you apply for the extension.

[BritTim]

5 minutes ago, dhi101 said:

Sorry Ubonjoe I am new to this I have a 6month tourist visa with about 32 days left so I can go to immigration and get a 90 day permit to stay then when i have 30 days left on that 90 day permit to stay I apply for a 12 month extension of stay is that it do i need doctors certificate or police check or just letter from bank

No doctor's certificate or police check is required for the change of status from tourist entry to non immigrant entry, or for the one year extension. The main issue you may face is that Kanchanaburi may dislike doing the conversion because it involves them in a fair bit of work. If you make it clear that you know what they need to do, hopefully they will do their job.

[dhi101]

4 minutes ago, BritTim said:

No doctor's certificate or police check is required for the change of status from tourist entry to non immigrant entry, or for the one year extension. The main issue you may face is that Kanchanaburi may dislike doing the conversion because it involves them in a fair bit of work. If you make it clear that you know what they need to do, hopefully they will do their job.

Do i need the letter from the bank for the 90 day permit or the 12 month extension

[ubonjoe]

10 minutes ago, dhi101 said:

Do i need the letter from the bank for the 90 day permit or the 12 month extension

Both

But for the visa application the letter must state the funds came from abroad.

[dhi101]

4 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Both

But for the visa application the letter must state the funds came from abroad.

Thank 

Where do i stand if kanchanaburi won't do the conversion

[ubonjoe]

29 minutes ago, dhi101 said:

Where do i stand if kanchanaburi won't do the conversion

Either get it in writing that they refused to do the conversion or go to Bangkok to apply for the visa and infor them Kanchanaburi refused to do it.

You could get the non-o visa in Penang or Savannakhet but you need proof you are retired. Others have gotten a income letter from their embassy to prove a small of amount of income or have done a statement that that they were retired at their embassy that has been accepted as proof they are retired.

[dhi101]

I went to kanchanaburi immigration for a second time they told me they don't do changs of status to non o visa and advised me to go to vientaine to get visa they also advised me i need 21 days left on my visa which i didn't have so i drove to myanma and got a 2 month stamp I contacted bangkok they informed me that i have to do in the provence where i live and that kanchanaburi can do the conversion to non o so back we go to kanchanaburi with all documents they were not happy they were very nasty to my wife and informed her they now require 2 copies of all documents and if we put the application in at their office they wouldn't gaurantee it would get approved so we left again to get another copy of our documents but realizing they most likely would reject my application we decided to drive to vientaine i now have a non o visa no thanks to kanchanaburi

[OJAS]

Hmm, looks like Kanchanaburi are a third rogue office (in addition to Jomtien and Maptaput as reported on other recent threads) who are refusing to process non-O conversions. Wonder how many more have yet to crawl out of the woodwork?