todd danielz
unless I'm mistaken foreigners can't go from a 30 day visa exempt stamp to a single entry 90 day Non-O and then to a yearly extension based on being over 50 in Hua Hin anymore. Christ, even Chiang Mai and Jomtien can't do it, it's gotta be done in Bangkok..
thats what they told the norwegian couple, you have got to go to bangkok immigration, but we can do it here for a consideration of 15000b, which is what they did.
it was done in one day, 30 day visa exempt tourist to 12 month stay based on retirement. no bank deposit /proof of income statements, no other documentation, they used the figures from the previous years application that they had on their records i guess.
we received a phone call from immig. the next day and went to pick up the passports. i was impressed.
the 15000 they paid was less than the cost of the two or three day trip to bangkok with all the associated hotel costs, food costs, taxi fares, visa fees,document translation and verification fees, getting a new set of income verification documents from norway and the general disruption to the lives to two elderly people, one in a wheelchair.
they would have been stupid not to have taken the offer.