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..