Okay you wing-nutz
Here are the amendments to ONE of the two police orders that are in effect concerning extensions of stays
This is 138/2557 and covers the supporting documents and provisos for extensions and 327/2557 is the criteria and conditions. You really use them in conjunction with each other but all I have is the first one.
- For countries that still issue the income affidavit they will still be accepted like normal.
- For countries that don't issue them any more you need to show 40K baht (for marriage/raising kids) per month (every month). This can be in the form of tax statements based on employment here in thailand OR in transfers to a thai bank account from overseas for 12 months before you apply for your extension and for retirement you need to show 65K baht a month per month (every month) for 12 months before you apply for your extension.
There is a post on the thai visa forum where someone says the immigration office is going to "work" with people this first year and allow less than a full year's worth of transfers to be shown
BUT
Unfortunately that's not how I'm reading the thai version.
It says for the first year when someone retires they are not obligated to show the 12 months of deposits via bank transfers. They use an example of IF you retire in Oct you only need to show the deposits from Nov on. It doesn't make any reference to an allowance for the first year THIS new amendment takes effect.
I am hoping that in the other police order 327/2557 they will address this because it's the one that lists seasoning of funds etc. Until I get my hands on that one you know as much as I do.
I am sorry if this raises more questions than it answers..