Thread: Non Immigrant O - M. Chiang Mai.

Hello,


With the Thai Consul in Brisbane now closed and no indication when it will re-open, what is the process to get a new Non Immigrant O - M twelve month Visa? I have obtained this Visa from Brisbane for over six years. I am not married, no business, retired with Australian Pension as income.

Can I get the same twelve month Visa from another neighboring Country rather than having to visit Australia?

The Thai Embassy at Canberra states: 'Royal Thai Embassy Canberra issues Non-immigration O visa only for single entry.'

I do not want a 'retirement' Visa and associated financial issues.

Puzzles me that there must be hundreds of foreigners like me, that used the Consulate in Brisbane, yet no noise!

I am back in Chiang Mai now on a double entry Tourist Visa.


Many thanks for any responses.

Regards

Yeah 9999, Savannakhet and Vientiane are both out for the O/P's situation. Even now both of those places won't give year long multi-O's for raising kids anymore, just single entry 90 day ones.

Of course the real question to ask is;

WHY did the O/P post the same query on not one but two sub-forums on T/V back in May and after getting accurate answers come here to troll, err try again?

I think they're either going to hafta accept the fact that a visa for that reason is gonna be hard to source nearby OR they're gonna hafta man up and go for a yearly extension inside the country..

It is what it is, don't hate the messenger, hate the message!

OP's pension might be less than the optimum, if anything like NZ superannuation many factors might affect the final payout. Plus if OP has no savings... Might be in tough spot.

Originally Posted by toddaniels

So let me see if I understand..

For the last 6 odd years you've been getting a year long multi-entry Non-Immigrant Type-O visa from the Thai Consulate in Brisbane..

By that I mean when you entered the country you got a 90 day permission to stay until stamp and then every 90 days you exited/re-entered and got another 90 day stamp... Is that about the gist of it or am I missing something here?

Right now in your situation (not married, retired with a Oz pension) those visas are hard as hen's teeth to get in S/E Asia.

If you don't mind me asking what is your reticence in getting a yearly extension of stay based on being over 50 (retirement) at your local Immigrations office; by meeting the financial requirements of 65K baht a month pension or 800K baht banked in thailand?

I take it your from Oz, so in theory, you could go to the Oz Embassy fill out a "stat dec" declaring you get 65K baht a month pension in Oz and use that as proof for meeting the financial requirement, OR you could use a combination of both money banked here and your pension to equal the 800K per year. It is not a perilous process..


I don't think you're gonna find that visa easily had around these parts at all.. Then again, how about emailing the Canberra Embassy and seeing if what they have on their website is even close to what they do in person.. Those websites of the Thai Embassy/Consulates scattered around the world have some of the WORST information on them. I wouldn't trust a word I read on them without sending them an email for clarification..

Todd, many thanks for your useful and intelligent response. The time you took with a useful response is appreciated.
I still wonder about the hundreds of other Australians in a similar situation to me.
Thanks again.

Now I am NOT advocating this at all; I am ONLY relating what I know first hand has happened.

An Aussie was in the same situation as the O/P. He had been getting year long, multi-entry, Non-O's back in Australia for a long time when the consulate just stopped doing it.

He went to the Australian embassy here in Bangkok, filled out a stat-dec form stating he got in excess of 65K baht a month income, THEN went to Laos and got a year long multi entry Non-O. That's the one where you border bounce every 90 days for a year. In fact it's the same one he'd been getting all along.

I am not clear on if he went to Vientiane or Savannakhet AND I do not know if the amount he put on the stat-dec form which the embassy notarized was backed up by any 'real' paperwork (because that's not a requirement to get a stat dec). I do know he said he was NOT asked for proof that the stat-dec amount was backed up by anything.

This was a fair few months back but it might be worth looking into.. Conversely, I don't think Chiang Mai Immigrations asks for proof on an Australian stat-dec form either, so he could get a yearly extension of stay by putting down he gets the 65K baht a month..

NOT that I'm sayin he SHOULD do that, just that it appears he COULD.

dunn the former consulate general retired so brisbane is closed as of 15 march 2015 until a new oconsulate general is appointed