visa info

**whittler** · 06-01-2007, 11:49 PM

I will be coming back to LOS this year for good I hope.

I have a multiple entry visa non O good if used before 7/10/ 07

I am not sure yet when I can come back. If it is close to 7/10, how much

time do I need to get a retirement visa? ( I am 65, and income about

80,000 baht a month.) If I have less than 2 weeks should I get another

visa, and if so what kind?

Also I thought I read that they would not let you in country with a

one way ticket. Is this so ?

Thanks,

whittler

**Marmite the Dog** · 07-01-2007, 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by whittler

Also I thought I read that they would not let you in country with a one way ticket. Is this so ?

If you have a visa, you will be let in with no problems.

As for the rest of your query, I think I know, but I'll let someone who has actually done it give you better advice.

**dirtydog** · 07-01-2007, 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by whittler

Also I thought I read that they would not let you in country with a one way ticket. Is this so ?

nope, you dont need an outward ticket.

**RDN** · 07-01-2007, 12:51 AM

I went the "O-A (Long stay)" visa route. You do all the paper-work in your home country after getting the form from your Thai embassy.

You could come to Thailand and get your non-immigrant "O" visa changed to "Retirement" (I don't know the correct name), but I have no experience of that.

I suggest you visit a Thai embassy in your home country and talk to them about the "O-A (Long stay)" visa.

As well as completing the visa application form (3 copies + photographs), you'll need:

1. a medical certificate stating that you don't and never have suffered from:
(1) Leprosy
(2) Dangerous step of Tuberculosis (T.B.)
(3) Filariasis
(4) Drug addiction
(5) Alcoholism
(6) Third step of Syphilis

2. a police record (hopefully blank)

3. a bank satement showing the equivalent of 800,000 baht deposited (OR equivalent monthly pension income OR equivalent mixture of deposit and income) and a letter from the bank confirming that the statement is true.

It took me 5 weeks from going to the embassy in London with the application form and documents, to arriving in Bangkok with the visa.

**Thetyim** · 07-01-2007, 09:56 AM

If you arrive on 6/10 then you will be stamped in for 90 days.
Your Permission to Stay will expire early Jan 2008
You can apply for a retirement extension anythime during the last 28 days of your Permision to Stay.

**DrAndy** · 07-01-2007, 11:34 AM

true, and as the visa takes a long time to process, they will give you extensions to stay until you get your proper visa

I am not sure, but the problem with the 1 year visa is that every time you want to leave Thailand, you have to get an exit visa otherwise your visa becomes invalid. True still?

**Thetyim** · 07-01-2007, 11:46 AM

^ Retirement extension is usually done on the spot.
Other extensions do take longer

You still need to get a re-entry permit if you want to leave thailand or your extension will be cancelled. A re-entry permit took 20 mins last time I applied.

**RDN** · 07-01-2007, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by DrAndy

...every time you want to leave Thailand, you have to get an exit visa otherwise your visa becomes invalid. True still?

I think it's true that if you have any kind of visa (apart from a "multiple entry" visa) then you must get a re-entry permit to keep it valid. That also applies to extensions that are based on such visas.

A "multiple entry" visa enables you to come and go at any time during it's validity period. It's like having a visa PLUS "multiple re-entry permit" combined.

My original "O-A" visa was single entry, so after arriving at Bkk I immediately bought a multiple re-entry permit at soi Suan Phlu immigration. (A waste of money though as I only used it once. Should've bought a normal, single re-entry permit

)

**whittler** · 07-01-2007, 04:41 PM

Thanks a lot for your help. I can't wait to get back to LOS.

whittler /aka mike

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