Re-entering Thailand

[robertcox]

I have a single entry one-year retirement visa. I'm a US citizen.

After four months, I returned to the US and didn't change visa to multi-entry visa.

I want to return to Thailand early in the new year. Can I now change the single entry into multi-entry visa? What is the best way for me to deal with this matter.

I wil be extending the visa, if that's relevant.

Thanks very much for your help. Bob

[thaiflyer1]

Its 2.20am and ive been on the so take this post with a pinch of salt...............

Your initial visa is down the drain..............you need to apply for a new visa.

Best way to deal with it..................hhhmmm.

Depends on you really,

if you want to stay in Thailand long time and have the funds/income you could consider a single entry Non Immigrant O class visa again as you had before and extend by 1 year after 60 days here..... (basic requirements are 800k baht transferred in from foreign source or 65k/month verifiable pension)..................

If you dont have the neccessary funds/income...............then you are down to 90 day border runs.

Edit.................dont forget induced reply........

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Well done for a man in his cups Flyer Mind you I wonder what visa he really has/had. A ONE YEAR SINGLE ENTRY ? An O-A maybe, but if so, it is shot without a re-entry permit

[nellyp]

Interesting....... I'm also on the .....(very clever those smiley things I just wish I could use them).

I'm Welsh and, having lived in Thailand for a few years, want to go back to retire. I have a Thai wife and son who live in Wales with me but looking ahead what is the best approach for me to become a permanent resident in Thailand. I used to teach in LOS and used to get year visas when doing that, but have been out of that kind of loop (some say I'm still a bit loopy) for a while so has anybody got any ideas for me to plan with

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Get a Non-Immigrant O visa based on support of a Thai national ( married ) from the Royal Thai Consulate Empire House, 9 Mt. Stewart Square, Cardiff CF1 5EE when you are ready to go to Thailand. You need to open a bank account in Thailand, and remit the equivalent of 400,000 baht from your UK bank to the Thai bank. Take your wife to Immigration with her Thai ID and your marriage papers and apply for a one year extension of that Non-Immigrant visa. You top up the bank account to that 400k baht and re-extend each year. Easy Peasy

[thaiflyer1]

Well done for a man in his cups Flyer    Mind you I wonder what visa he really has/had. A ONE YEAR SINGLE ENTRY ?  An O-A maybe, but if so, it is shot without a re-entry permit

Dr.P.P...........you can tell when you've got the TV bug bad when after a night out you come home with a young beautiful lass and the first priority is checking the boards out. . . .worrying.

[lopburi3]

I have a single entry one-year retirement visa.  I'm a US citizen.

After four months, I returned to the US and didn't change visa to multi-entry visa.

I want to return to Thailand early in the new year.  Can I now change the single entry into multi-entry visa?  What is the best way for me to deal with this matter.

I wil be extending the visa, if that's relevant.

Thanks very much for your help.  Bob

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I am not sure what you had or have from your post. Did you apply for and receive an O-A visa for retirement from a Consulate in the US? Did you receive a one year permitted to stay stamp when you entered Thailand? Was the visa marked "single" entry? The normal issue in the US is a Multi entry O-A and you would be able to come back at any time until the expiration date of the visa and obtain a one year permitted to stay stamp.

If you do not have a valid multi entry visa and did not obtain a re entry permit prior to your departure you indeed will have to apply for a new O-A visa before your return.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Well done for a man in his cups Flyer      Mind you I wonder what visa he really has/had. A ONE YEAR SINGLE ENTRY ?  An O-A maybe, but if so, it is shot without a re-entry permit

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Dr.P.P...........you can tell when you've got the TV bug bad when after a night out you come home with a young beautiful lass and the first priority is checking the boards out. . . .worrying.

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Jeez I haven't got that bad ... yet