non o to retirement with a trip to the UK inbetween?

[zoza]

i am looking for the easyist way of achieving the switch from a non-o - married visa to a retirement with as little fuss as can be acheived

my current non-o expires the 1st of august but i am flying to the UK on the 7th of august.

my plan was to get a 7 day extension and when i return on the 29th of august apply for a retirement visa in bangkok or pattaya?

but if i do a visa run before the 1st of august it should extend my non-o visa until October? and save me the bother of getting a new non-o

I am not 100% on the ins and outs so any advice would be appreciated.

p.s.

while in the UK I will get proof of income

from my pension's and maybe a letter

from the Bangkok embassy before

applying in pattaya for the retirement visa.

does this make sense?

[Jip99]

Makes sense but just a refinement of the terminology to avoid any confusion. Do you have a Non-O visa or an extension based on marriage ?

You are not getting a visa (only obtainable outside of Thailand), you are applying for an extension of stay.

You will need to do this before leaving for the UK and also obtain a reentry permit.

[ubonjoe]

Is it your current 90 day entry that is ending on the 1st of August or the visa.

You could apply for the extension of stay based upon retirement (it is not a visa) before you leave for your trip. Then get a re-entry permit.

Only a income letter from the UK embassy will be accepted for proof of your 65k baht income.

You have to apply for the extension at the designated office for where you are living.

[zoza]

my non-imm category O multi was obtained in the uk it has an enter before date of 02/ 08/2016 which I think makes it expire on that date.

I want to get a extension of stay based on retirement, but as I am going to the uk for three weeks I am wondering what would be the best

way and simplest way to achieve this? should I do a visa run before August 2 which I think extends the non-imm o till October giving me two months to

change my visa to a retirement when I return or would it be easier just to get a seven day extension and convert my V.O.A into a retirement visa after

my trip back home, I don't really want to bring more money to Thailand but my income should cover it and I could get proof from my pension providers

while I am back in the UK. . thanks for your advice in this matter.

[ubonjoe]

If you went out prior to the enter before date on your visa you would get a new 90 day entry. You could then get a single re-entry permit to keep the remainder of the entry valid when you return from you trip.

You will not change your visa. You will simply apply for an extension of stay based upon retirement during the last 30 days of the 90 day entry from your visa.

The proof of your pension will not be accepted by immigration as proof of your income. You will need to get a income letter from the UK embassy. Info on getting it is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-to-obtain-a-pensionincome-letter-for-thai-immigration

[SantiSuk]

If the OP has the time to organise an extension of stay on his O visa before it expires and before he leaves the country is it not simpler to do that ... and possibly cheaper?

I don't know the cost of a single re-entry permit. I do not know whether the OP expects to exit the country with a frequency that would argue in favour of a multi-reentry permit when he applies for his one year extension. I do not know how expensive it is for him to visit immigration and I do not know what value he ascribes to hisown time when making an immigration office visit.

In essence what you are saying Joe is that he should consider visiting immigration both before and after his visit to the UK? If that is true, in essence all he maybe doing is paying for an unnecessary single reentry permit to delay the payment for a retirement extension+multi reentry payment by 90 days.

An economist or accountant like me would be reaching for all the cost inputs and performing a time value of money calculation to get the 'efficient' result

Even as an economist/accountant (ex) I might just rely on a gut reaction that I don't want two visits to immigration unless I'm saving substantive money.

This is all just good fun/conjecture on my part if he cannot sort out the retirement extension before his O visa expires or if I have made a fatally wrong assumption.

Edit: I learnt something as I usually do when reading UbonJoe postings.I didn't know you can extend a multi O visa by 3 months by leaving just before it expires and getting a single re-entry permit. I thought the 15 month trick was all about timing your reentry to a date just before the visa expires (which does work of course). Again though I question whether doing so is the most 'efficient' thing to do - paying (money/time) to delay an inevitable expense is often not worthwhile!