Canadian Embassy to discontinue income affidavit notary service April 1st, 2025

[DrJack54]

32 minutes ago, Madgee said:

What are the financial requirements based on the income method if he leaves Thailand and re-enters to start a fresh non-imm O at the end of the year?

If he "starts over" he is in same boat as the other folk without income letter. 

To use income method he would need to show 12 monthly transfers.

For that reason you see those starting over or just obtaining Non O retirement for first time ....use money in bank method.

 

32 minutes ago, Madgee said:

His Canadian pension letters state he has more than 65k after tax deductions and Canadian bank statements to back it up.

Will be useless in start over process

 

Edit: one caveat.... immigration may cut some slack. Perhaps only requiring 6 month of transfers for next extension.

Thinking something like this occurred back in 2018/19 when letters were dropped for UK,USA, AU citizens

[OJAS]

9 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Edit: one caveat.... immigration may cut some slack. Perhaps only requiring 6 month of transfers for next extension.

Thinking something like this occurred back in 2018/19 when letters were dropped for UK,USA, AU citizens

 

Yes, the Immigration Bureau did issue a memorandum urging leniency in the first year back in 2018 - English translation attached. However, whether individual offices actually took any notice of it was another matter - certainly mine (Rayong) did not, and it was only by pure luck and chance that I had already been making monthly 65k+ transfers for a full year prior to my next retirement extension application in any event.

 

 

[OJAS]

On 2/19/2025 at 12:51 PM, perconrad said:

But the Danish embassy opened up again and now want that we get our pensions providers in Denmark to send the pensions income letters directly to the embassy, the letters shall be written in English.

The embassy then sign and stamp the letters and send them by post to the pensioner,  the embassy charge about thb 1000 pr letter and thb 40 for EMS post.

 

Sadly such a simple and practical solution to meeting Immigration Bureau requirements appears to be completely beyond the capabilities of unimaginative staff at the British, American, Australian and now Canadian embassies to implement, for some mysterious reason.

 

[OJAS]

11 hours ago, Madgee said:

What are the financial requirements based on the income method if he leaves Thailand and re-enters to start a fresh non-imm O at the end of the year?

 

If you are talking about a 90-day non-O visa conversion in between a 60-day visa exemption entry and a fresh annual extension of stay for retirement, the financial requirement will be 800k in a Thai bank a/c period - see item 7 in the link below. Highly unlikely that there will be any question after 1 April of the 65k monthly income alternative referred to in item 6 being possible since this would be dependent on the Canadian Embassy being prepared to issue the necessary letter of guarantee.

 

https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9.FOR-RETIREMENT-PURPOSES-50-YEARS-OLD-NON-O.pdf

 

[bamnutsak]

9 hours ago, OJAS said:

Yes, the Immigration Bureau did issue a memorandum urging leniency in the first year back in 2018 - English translation attached. However, whether individual offices actually took any notice of it was another matter - certainly mine (Rayong) did not, and it was only by pure luck and chance that I had already been making monthly 65k+ transfers for a full year prior to my next retirement extension application in any event.

 

 

"...the officer shall consider..."

 

 

In my case, and in most as posted here, CW did accept fewer than twelve (12) months of qualifying transfers. I think I had nine (9) that first time, others had as few as three (3).

 

No clue if they'll issue similar guidance for Canadians.