Question On Retirement Visa Extension

[willbartholomew]

I have a 1 year retirement visa and my 3 month reporting date is next week. Last week I returned from a visit to my home country. Does anyone know if that extends my visa for another 3 months from when I returned to Thailand or do I still have to report to immigration for the extension?

[retiredusn]

I have a 1 year retirement visa and my 3 month reporting date is next week. Last week I returned from a visit to my home country. Does anyone know if that extends my visa for another 3 months from when I returned to Thailand or do I still have to report to immigration for the extension?

It does not extend your visa but the 90 report day starts from your arrival date

[loong]

I have a 1 year retirement visa and my 3 month reporting date is next week. Last week I returned from a visit to my home country. Does anyone know if that extends my visa for another 3 months from when I returned to Thailand or do I still have to report to immigration for the extension?

You probably mean that you have a 1 year extension of stay - is that right?

If so, did you get a re-entry permit before you left Thailand? If not, your extension will have been cancelled.

[jimmym40]

Yes, the above reply is correct. You do your next 90 report from the time you re-entered Thailand from your last visit out of the country.

What I usually do is to take out the form from the passport upon your next 90 day report and just hang on to it. I don't want to confuse them by having that paper in the passport that says I must report on ______, but in reality, the next report is due on 90 days after re=entry.

[willbartholomew]

Thanks for the quick responses and I will try to explain my situation better. I have a 1 yr retirement visa with multiple re-entry status. I am not looking to extend my 1 yr visa as I just renewed it in April/2009. I am only wondering if my arrival back in Thailand last week constitutes the 3 month reporting requirement.

[loong]

If you initially entered Thailand with a non immigrant "O" visa and have subsequently extended your permission to stay, then you do not have a retirement visa. You have a 1 year extension of stay. If you have an extension of stay with multiple re-entry permit, then your next report will be 90 days after you re-entered Thailand.

There really is no such thing as a retirement visa.

If you have a 1 year multi-entry visa "O" type you have to leave Thailand every 90 days. If "O-A" you will get 1 year permission to stay on entering Thailand.

[thetefldon]

Glad I read the latest replies to this post before I replied. I exited in January for a couple of weeks on re-entry permit to my retirement extension but left the TM47 slip in my passport and just reported as normal which was a couple of weeks after I got back. No one queried this at Immigration.

I guess this also explains how you would go about the reporting procedure if you were out of the country when a reporting date was due i.e. your next report would be 90 days after you re-enter?

[alant]

very helpful stuff, i have always reported on the date on my slip of paper in the passport which has always just been processed, live and learn

[loong]

Glad I read the latest replies to this post before I replied. I exited in January for a couple of weeks on re-entry permit to my retirement extension but left the TM47 slip in my passport and just reported as normal which was a couple of weeks after I got back. No one queried this at Immigration.

I guess this also explains how you would go about the reporting procedure if you were out of the country when a reporting date was due i.e. your next report would be 90 days after you re-enter?

A lot of people think that this 90 day report is to report your address. It isn't - it's actually a notification that you have stayed in Thailand for more than 90 days at one time. Obviously if you leave Thailand before the 90 days, there is no need to report and also no need to report again until 90 days after re-entering Thailand.

[perryman]

I have a 1 year retirement visa and my 3 month reporting date is next week. Last week I returned from a visit to my home country. Does anyone know if that extends my visa for another 3 months from when I returned to Thailand or do I still have to report to immigration for the extension?

What is said is correct, it extend your date of report, but did you arrange with reentry visa with the Immigration Office before leaving the country or do you have a multy entry visa combined with your one year retirement visa? If you only have your one year retirement visa and NOT have got a reentry visa you are really bad off.

[SwaziBird]

If you initially entered Thailand with a non immigrant "O" visa and have subsequently extended your permission to stay, then you do not have a retirement visa. You have a 1 year extension of stay. If you have an extension of stay with multiple re-entry permit, then your next report will be 90 days after you re-entered Thailand.

There really is no such thing as a retirement visa.

If you have a 1 year multi-entry visa "O" type you have to leave Thailand every 90 days. If "O-A" you will get 1 year permission to stay on entering Thailand.

A simple question please for a simple answer( if such is possible ) to be understood by a simple mind ! Hopefully this is not too far off-topic.

My wife and I will be returning from Oz , hopefully with multiple-entry "O" type visas which permit us to stay in the Kingdom for 90 days before doing the repeated "run" to Mae Sai - something we have been doing for a couple of years and enjoying.

We are thinking of applying for the "O - A" multi-entry visas which we understand will obviate the necessary 90 day exit/re-entry procedure.

Someone has suggested to us that this is indeed possible if we can satisfy the financial criteria but that each time we depart the country (voluntarily ) during that year we will be up for a 1,900 baht visa fee !

Could there be any basis for this or does this only apply to those who never obtained the multi-entry status in the first instance ?

Thanks. ( Mods: I can re-post if required - or kindly shift to wherever appropriate, thanks.).

Cheers.

[loong]

We are thinking of applying for the "O - A" multi-entry visas which we understand will obviate the necessary 90 day exit/re-entry procedure.

Someone has suggested to us that this is indeed possible if we can satisfy the financial criteria but that each time we depart the country (voluntarily ) during that year we will be up for a 1,900 baht visa fee !

It may be a good idea to post your question in the visa forum. You'd get advice on how easy it is to get an "O-A" in Australia. With an "O-A" you get 1 year stay on entering Thailand and I've never heard of an additional fee.

[mcgriffith]

Moved to Visa subforum.

[Lite Beer]

With a Multi Entry Non O-A Visa you will get a 12 month entry every time you enter. There are no extra fees.

If you do a border run the day before the Visa expires you will get another 12 months giving a total of 2 years.

During the second year you will need a Re Entry Permit if you plan to make trips out of the country other wise your permission to stay will expire.

Re Entry Permits are available from Immigration Offices and cost 1,000 Baht for a single and 3,800 Baht for a Multi Entry.

[Frezie]

If you initially entered Thailand with a non immigrant "O" visa and have subsequently extended your permission to stay, then you do not have a retirement visa. You have a 1 year extension of stay. If you have an extension of stay with multiple re-entry permit, then your next report will be 90 days after you re-entered Thailand.

There really is no such thing as a retirement visa.

If you have a 1 year multi-entry visa "O" type you have to leave Thailand every 90 days. If "O-A" you will get 1 year permission to stay on entering Thailand.

While you could be right about there being no such thing as a retirement visa - after all it is just a non-immigrant 'O' - My visas have always shown "retirement" hand written in the stamp in the passport.