Embassy Income Verification Letter - Validity Period.

[SurfRider]

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For whatever it's worth - for Farang retirees using an Embassy Income Verification Letter to renew their yearly Visa extension - the validity period of a verification letter was recently extended to 6 months.

There have been recent reports of the validity period being reduced to 90 days, 30 days, and even 15 days by Thai Immigration, however the change to a 6 month validity period is now official.

This was reported in the current Pattaya City Expats Club newsletter as follows:

LATEST NEWS – EMBASSY “INCOME” LETTERS WILL BE VALID AT THAI IMMIGRATION IF THEY ARE NOT MORE THAN 6 MONTHS OLD

We had previously advised in the Newsletter and on the website that Thai Immigration was advising Expats using an Embassy “income” letter renewing at Chonburi (Pattaya) Immigration that it would need to be no more than 15 days old (accepting older letters, but saying “next time no more than 15 days”). We have just received information that Immigration has revised this policy and will be accepting such letters if they are not more than 6 months old.

It is our understanding that the Thai Department of Immigration had decided to change the validity period of income verification letters to a uniform standard of 15 days nationwide. This was announced internally within the Department of Immigration on April 22 of this year. Because the US and several other Embassies raised concerns about the difficulties this would cause for retirees in Thailand, the Department of Immigration responded by revising the April 22nd instructions by letter signed by the Deputy Commissioner of Immigration on May 29, 2013. The revision states that income verification letters will be valid up to six months.

Immigration Offices should already be aware of this most recent change, but we are putting a copy of the Thai Immigration letter and an unofficial English translation on our web server so that you may print a copy of the Thai letter to have with you if you wish.

Sorry that it's not permissible to post a link to the PCEC website on ThaiVisa.com, but for those who want further verification, Google is your friend . . .

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[ThaiBob]

This is important information and should be shared (moved) to the Visa forum since it was issued by the Dept of Immigration and is not exclusive to Pattaya.

[Sophon]

This is important information and should be shared (moved) to the Visa forum since it was issued by the Dept of Immigration and is not exclusive to Pattaya.

There is already a thread on the same subject http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/644827-immigration-extends-validity-of-income-verification-letter/#entry6482717 in the visa forum.

Sophon

[Rimmer]

As Sophon correctly points out the topic and letter is already being discussed in the Thai-visas-residency-and-work-permits Thai visas, residency and work permits forum HERE in order to keep everything together this topic is

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