udon Posted July 31, 2004 Share Posted July 31, 2004 Pat, how can it be? The type O was issued after the retirement visa. The word RETIREMENT is very clear and I did not do a visa run for a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_Pat_Pong Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 Pat, how can it be? The type O was issued after the retirement visa.The word RETIREMENT is very clear and I did not do a visa run for a year. Your confusion is that you think that the O-A is the only retirement visa. The O-A is the visa issued OUTSIDE Thailand for retirement, and it enables a full 12 month stay to be granted on arrival at the airport. The O enables only a 90 day stay, and is easily extended at Immigration for a year at a time. Essentially the only difference is that period of stay granted on first arrival. The O is a breeze, while the O-A requires police and medical clearances, and triplicated notorizations prior to issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udon Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 I'm confused??????????? Ok, imagine that I never applied for or was issued with a type O, EVER! Where does that leave us? You seem to be leaning on the type O for some reason. Please treat the type O as a red herring! The tiny word/stamp "retirement" IS in my passport and was good for 1 year...and WAS issued by the Suan Phlu office a year BEFORE the type O. geeeeez! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_Pat_Pong Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Can you describe your visa? No, sorry, the page is a "dog's dinner". I will try to scan it and post it here later in the week. My visa history is 2 yrs back to back tourist visas, then a retirement one yr visa, last year I obtained a Type O for 15 months. I'm now applying for a work permit as MD of my own co. You seem to have obtained an O visa, or so you said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udon Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 1 YEAR AFTER THE RETIREMENT VISA! I thought I had made that clear in at least 3 posts in this thread........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_Pat_Pong Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 1 YEAR AFTER THE RETIREMENT VISA!I thought I had made that clear in at least 3 posts in this thread........ I've retired from the go nowhere argument. ( so should you ... go run your bus... I'll be interested to see a retiree's work permit too ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDN Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 You were lucky..........above are requirements as laid down on the MFA website........ Hey thaiflyer1 - I was working on my post while you were sending yours! So where did you get this information? I didn't realise you could get an "O-A" from within Thailand. Not sure why you said he was "lucky", it looks like you can get an "O-A" at Soi Suan Phlu - just like udon did.. When i said he was lucky i meant they could of asked to see a lot more i.e medical certificate etc. Website is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (the Govt Dept that lay down the Regs) http://www.mfa.go.th/web/12.php An aside i think you initially only got a single entry Non Imm visa, how much did you pay? single is 40 pound sterling and multiple which would of given you a year is 90 pound sterling Sorry thaiflyer1, missed your post. Yes, I've been to that site before, and it describes exactly what I did for the O-A visa. I paid only 15 UK pounds (about 1,000 baht) in 2002, and yes, it was a single entry Non-Imm. "O-A" visa and valid for 3 months. As soon as I got to bkk (within the 3 months, naturally), I got a multiple re-entry permit (in those days, only 1,000 baht). I presume the £40/£90 fee you mention is the new, current rate . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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