With a Multi Entry you can come and go as you please until the Visa expires. Each entry has a max of 90 days. This would give up to 15 months.

You can not use a multi entry visa if you are on an extension of stay so it is one or the other. If you plan to extend do as suggested and get single entry visa and extend for one year and then buy re-entry permit for travel/return during that one year.

Indeed.

I will now repeat the suggested plan of action to the OP, and he is free of course to follow it, or not follow it as he wishes:

1. Apply for a single entry O visa in Ireland. Not a multiple entry. Not an O-A retirement visa.

2. Arrange your Thai banking account at your convenience to make sure it does not go under 800K baht for two months before your planned immigration office visit in Thailand

3. Arrive in Thailand. You will be stamped in for 90 days using your SINGLE entry O visa.

4. After 60 days in Thailand, visit your local Thai immigration ready to apply for annual extension based on retirement. When approved, this gives you an additional one year permission to stay which begins the day after your original SINGLE entry O visa 90 days ends.

5. Purchase either a single entry reentry permit OR a multiple reentry permit from that same Thai immigration office whenever you like in order to keep that annual permission to stay alive for the entire year when you exit and reeneter Thailand during that period. Many people like to buy their permits at the same time as getting their annual extension for convenience sake.

6. At the end of the first annual extension, apply again as needed, every year for new annual extensions. For later extensions, 800K bank applicants need to season the money for three months, not two. For these additional annual extensions, of course you will need to buy new reentry permits if needed for travel.

Happy retirement.

Edited October 31, 201114 yr by Jingthing

Indeed.

I will now repeat the suggested plan of action to the OP, and he is free of course to follow it, or not follow it as he wishes:

1. Apply for a single entry O visa in Ireland. Not a multiple entry. Not an O-A retirement visa.

2. Arrange your Thai banking account at your convenience to make sure it does not go under 800K baht for two months before your planned immigration office visit in Thailand

3. Arrive in Thailand. You will be stamped in for 90 days using your SINGLE entry O visa.

4. After 60 days in Thailand, visit your local Thai immigration ready to apply for annual extension based on retirement. When approved, this gives you an additional one year permission to stay which begins the day after your original SINGLE entry O visa 90 days ends.

5. Purchase either a single entry reentry permit OR a multiple reentry permit from that same Thai immigration office whenever you like in order to keep that annual permission to stay alive for the entire year when you exit and reeneter Thailand during that period. Many people like to buy their permits at the same time as getting their annual extension for convenience sake.

6. At the end of the first annual extension, apply again as needed, every year for new annual extensions. For later extensions, 800K bank applicants need to season the money for three months, not two. For these additional annual extensions, of course you will need to buy new reentry permits if needed for travel.

Happy retirement.

Thats very clear to me

Thanks

Pat :jap: