90 day check in on a retirement visa if out the country

[Bodger22]

Hi

I have a valid multi entry retirement visa. I want to leave the country for a while - not sure exactly how long. Four questions:

1. If I am out of the country for the 90 day check in date do I still have to do it - presumably online?

2. If done online are there currently any issues and/or special requirements? Especially if done from out of Thailand.

3. Is there a maximum amount of time that I can be out of the country without affecting the status of the retirement visa? i.e. can I be out of the country for +-360 days as long as I complete the 90 day check in online?

4. Similar to question 3 but is there a minimum amount of time that you have to be in Thailand on a retirement visa?

Thank you

Edited May 21, 2018 by Bodger22

[Golden Triangle]

Go to immigration and get yourself a re entry permit, then when you return to Thailand the 90 day countdown starts again. 

 

If you are out of Thailand for in excess of a year then your retirement visa or extension will elapse and you will have to do the whole process again.

 

As for #4, I don't think so, but others may know different.

Edited May 21, 2018 by Golden Triangle

[NanLaew]

Are you on a 1-year visa issued by an overseas Thai embassy?

 

Or, are you on a 12-month extension of a visa that was issued over 12 months ago by an overseas Thai embassy with the extension issued by your local Immigration office inside Thailand?

 

The ins and outs are different for each type of permission to stay.

 

Assuming you are on the latter 1-year extension of stay

 

1. If you are out of the country before the 90-day report is due, it is not required. The 90-day 'clock' will reset on the day you re-enter Thailand.

2. On line 90-day reporting is only for those currently inside Thailand.

3. There's no restrictions on amount of time outside the country but ensure you obtain a multiple entry re-entry permit before you depart of else the extension will be canceled when you depart Thailand. Also note that the annual renewal of the retirement extension can only be done in person when inside Thailand. If you are outside Thailand when it falls due, it will expire and become invalid for any re-entry.

4. There's no minimum time inside Thailand requirement.

 

Edited May 21, 2018 by NanLaew

[ubonjoe]

1/2 You do not need to do a report of staying longer than 90 consecutive days if you don't stay that long. Your report will be due 90 days from the date you enter the country.

3. There is not restriction on the amount of time you can be out of the country. You only have to be here to apply for a new a extension of stay.

4. There is none.

 

[Thailand J]

90 day report is to inform the immigration that you have been staying in Thailand consecutively in the past 90 days, from the last time you have reported or from the day you have  arrived.

 

[Bodger22]

Many thanks to all for the comprehensive answers. All questions answered very clearly ?

[maccastime]

A good mate of mine with a retirement visa living in Pattaya left thail in August 2017 for major surgery for skin cancer. Then radiation and now waiting on plastics to these areas doing it tough. So I advised him I would check on here for him. He is worried about his yearly extension of stay due July 2018. I advised him he may be able to sort this at the Thai Embassy here in sydney? Can any kind member advise. Please

[ubonjoe]

10 minutes ago, maccastime said:

So I advised him I would check on here for him. He is worried about his yearly extension of stay due July 2018. I advised him he may be able to sort this at the Thai Embassy here in sydney?

Nothing can be done at a embassy other than applying for a OA long stay visa. Only a immigration office can do a extension of stay.

[maccastime]

Ok thanks for your reply. He is not sure if he will get back to thail before the extension is due depending on hospital and doctors. Here’s hoping he can make the deadline 

[Suradit69]

20 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

Go to immigration and get yourself a re entry permit, then when you return to Thailand the 90 day countdown starts again. 

Hard to tell when someone claims to have a "retirement visa" if he actually does, but if he really has an unexpired non-imm O-A and will return to Thailand before it expires, he wouldn't need a re-entry permit.

 

20 hours ago, Bodger22 said:

I have a valid multi entry retirement visa.

 

Of course, if the O-A expired and he's here on a permission to stay from a visa entry (obtained before the visa expired) or if he really means he has an annual extension of his permission to stay based on retirement, then he would need a re-entry permit.

 

Either way, a 90 day report is only required if one is in the country for 90 uninterrupted days and the count begins again when he returns.

 

 

 

 

Edited May 22, 2018 by Suradit69

[OJAS]

4 hours ago, Suradit69 said:

Either way, a 90 day report is only required if one is in the country for 90 uninterrupted days and the count begins again when he returns.

And he should not forget that the date of his return to Thailand counts as Day 1 of the 90 - meaning that, in practice, his next 90-day report is due 89 days thereafter.