ok my friend has just arrived on a multiple O visa valid for 1 year issued in Mumbai

he was stamped at swampy until August, i think thats 90 days

so what happens after that?

does he check in at immigration or does he have to leave and come back in to get another 90 days?

i have used the search function before asking but get every post that has an 'O' in it returned

thank you

My understanding is that your friend will need to report every 90 days to the immigration bureau where he resides.

My understanding is that your friend will need to report every 90 days to the immigration bureau where he resides.

No, he needs to do a border crossing every 90 days.

he has to do a border run, just over and back, this keeps his Visa alive,.

Your friend can turn that O visa into a 12-month permission to stay based on retirement if he meets the qualifications (age and monthly income or money in a Thai bank). Here in CM Immigration office they recently told me that you have to wait until the visa is at least 60 days old to request the 12-month retirement extension. Then your friend would just have to go to the local Immigration office for a free 90 day report rather than leave the country every 90 days.

He has to leave the country every 90 days. If he enters just before expiry date he gets another 90 days giving a total of 15 months.

He has two options:

1: leave the country every 90 days. By leaving and re-entering just before his visa expires he gets a new 90 days and so almost 15 months out of his visa.

2. apply for an extension of stay at immigration, for which he needs to show

if married to a Thai national: 400,000 in a bank acount in Thailand or an income of 40,000 a month (can be from abroad). he can apply for an extension during the last 30 days of any permission to stay.

if based on retirement: 800,000 in a bank account in Thailand OR an income of 65,000 a month OR a combination of yearly income and money in the bank totaling 800,00.

He has two options:

1: leave the country every 90 days. By leaving and re-entering just before his visa expires he gets a new 90 days and so almost 15 months out of his visa.

2. apply for an extension of stay at immigration, for which he needs to show

if married to a Thai national: 400,000 in a bank acount in Thailand or an income of 40,000 a month (can be from abroad). he can apply for an extension during the last 30 days of any permission to stay.

if based on retirement: 800,000 in a bank account in Thailand OR an income of 65,000 a month OR a combination of yearly income and money in the bank totaling 800,00.

thanks guys!

Most of the points have already been covered so I won't go over them again.

Just undertand that your friend has to go to a border, cross over(making sure to get an exit stamp on leaving Thailand) and then come back into Thailand immeadiately (if that's what your friend wants)to be stamped into Thailand for another 90 days. If your friend is in Bangkok there are a number of visa services that do this, taking about 4 hours from Bangkok to the Cambodian border, 1 hour at the border to exit and re-enter for the vsa and 90 day stamp, and then 4 hours back to Bangkok. So it is possible to do it all in one 9 hour day trip. I just did mine on 6 May.

There is one thing he must be careful of. The one year multi entry visa that your friend has will have a date stamped on it which says something similar to, "This visa must be used before (date)" whch usually is a year (give or take a day or two) from the date the visa was first issued. That date is the date the one-year visa expires.

In order to get the full maximum 15 MONTHS out of that 1 year visa what he should do is to make a border run one or two days before that expiration date when the visa expires. Then he will be stamped out and back in for another 90 day stay. By doing this he can stretch that one-year multi-entry visa into a legal 15 month stay.

Just wanted to make that last point clear about how to legally extend that one-year multi-entry visa into a legal 15 month stay...if he wants to.

Edited May 13, 201115 yr by IMA_FARANG