12 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

It was one of the IO's sitting at a desk next to where I was. 

Which office?

18 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

It was one of the IO's sitting at a desk next to where I was. 

...

I seem to recall from your previous posts that your IO is at CW.

But please confirm or correct.

Thanks!

34 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

I seem to recall from your previous posts that your IO is at CW.

But please confirm or correct.

Thanks!

Yes it was at the CW temporary office in Muang Thong Thani, Nonthaburi

Just to be clear I'm not old enough to retire or I would do that. I don't really want to get married either and take on the risks but Thailand doesn't give me many options.

 

Anyways, just to be safe I got a 1 way ticket out of BKK for $650 USD. I don't want to be anywhere near the USA for the next 12 months but unless I want to get married they've forced my hand.

Where to? Turkey?

24 minutes ago, genericptr said:

Just to be clear I'm not old enough to retire or I would do that. I don't really want to get married either and take on the risks but Thailand doesn't give me many options.

 

Anyways, just to be safe I got a 1 way ticket out of BKK for $650 USD. I don't want to be anywhere near the USA for the next 12 months but unless I want to get married they've forced my hand.

Where to? Turkey?

29 minutes ago, genericptr said:

Just to be clear I'm not old enough to retire or I would do that. I don't really want to get married either and take on the risks but Thailand doesn't give me many options.

 

Anyways, just to be safe I got a 1 way ticket out of BKK for $650 USD. I don't want to be anywhere near the USA for the next 12 months but unless I want to get married they've forced my hand.

Yes indeed, if you are under 50 years of age (you do not need to be retired), you cannot apply for the 90-day Non Imm O Visa for reason of retirement.

And in that case when not wanting to get married to your thai girlfriend just because of the thai Immigration options such marriage provides, you are left with either the Elite Visa or an ED Visa.

Or alternatively making use of that one-way ticket to get out of the country.

Note: You could make use of your not yet used 30-day extension of stay, to postpone your leave till end October.

Edited August 18, 20205 yr by Peter Denis

 

12 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

Yes indeed, if you are under 50 years of age (you do not need to be retired), you cannot apply for the 90-day Non Imm O Visa for reason of retirement.

And in that case when not wanting to get married to your thai girlfriend just because of the thai Immigration options such marriage provides, you are left with either the Elite Visa or an ED Visa.

Or alternatively making use of that one-way ticket to get out of the country.

Note: You could make use of your not yet used 30-day extension of stay, to postpone your leave till end October.

He might also be able to use the Volunteer option.  ED will max-out at 1-year in-country after he last entered.

On 8/17/2020 at 12:13 PM, genericptr said:

 

 

Got it. IO's are confused also. Just saw this thread https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1178088-visa-extension/ where he has the same issue.

 

So then why does anyone do the 3 month border runs instead of getting the 1 year extension of say? The qualifications are exactly the same it appears. Reading over the aforementioned thread people make it sound like they don't qualify for something and therefore are doing the borders jumps, which from what you say I think means actually applying for a new visa out of country every 3 months. That sounds crazy so I must be missing something.

 

A lot of people doing border runs every 90 days (not now because of closed borders) don't meet the requirements for 1 year extensions. They might not have 400k/800k in a Thai bank. People on 90 days Non-immigrant O ME don't apply for a new visa, they get another 90 days on re-entry. 

1 hour ago, Max69xl said:

People on 90 days Non-immigrant O ME don't apply for a new visa, they get another 90 days on re-entry. 

Not when the validity of the Visa has expired, they have to apply for a new Visa, unless they can meet the financial requirements for an annual extension of their permission of stay.