Thread: Converting "TR" Visa to 90 Day to 1 year

Hang in there, toddlers will be along shortly...

Get a 90 day O visa based on retirement from the Thai embassy, why take the hop over a TR visa?

Thanks for your very intelligent reply - Go crawl back under your rock you imbecile.

toddlers is Todd Daniels, expert on all things visa......

Your reaction tells me you won't get far in receiving help if you talk like that around here being a Septic and all.....

May I reference you to the "Why Are Americans So Sensitive"... or maybe you could just bomb Barry, I know where it is, you won't make much difference.

Originally Posted by John Michael Clopein

Thanks for your very intelligent reply - Go crawl back under your rock you imbecile.

Please dont come to Thailand. With that attitude you will not last a week.

Here's the info you need

Originally Posted by Tod Daniels

I ripped this from a post I made elsewhere but it spells out exactly what you do:
Get a single entry Tourist Visa BEFORE you wing you way here; it's good for a 60 day permission to stay stamp when you arrive.
You could come in on a 30 day visa exempt stamp BUT the reason I say get a 60 day tourist visa IS, you must have 14 days left on your permission to stay stamp when you do the first step.. If you have ANY hiccups you're cutting it close to get everything done and the 60 day tourist visa buys you time.
When you hit the ground here, open a thai currency savings account at a thai bank.
NOTE: you may hafta try a few different banks and even different branches of the same bank because a lot are NOT opening accounts for people on tourist visas, but you'll find one for sure.
Then transfer 800K baht from your country into your thai bank (one of the requirements when applying for a Non-O visa inside the country is that the money must originate from overseas).
Make sure you open the thai bank account in your name only.
Once the 800K hits your thai bank account here, get the bank branch to type the letter stating you have 800K baht (or what ever balance it is OVER 800K baht) AND that the money was wired in from outside the country.
Update your bank book (on the day you're applying for the Non-O visa), fill out the proper forms, make the proper copies and go to Chaengwattana Immigration Office here in Bangkok. It will cost 2000baht.
You will be applying for a single entry 90 day Non-Immigrant Type-O visa based on the fact you're over 50 and intend to apply for a year's extension of stay.

The application will go under review for 14 days, then you go back get the Non-O visa stamped into your passport (with a USED stamp on it) and you'll receive a new 90 day permission to stay stamp too.

At this point you're done until there are 45 days or less left on that new permission to stay stamp.

BE ADVISED: During this intervening time while you burn the days down to where you can apply for a yearly extension, your bank balance cannot fall a single baht below the 800K threshold. What you're doing is "seasoning" the money. The rule is for the very first yearly extension of stay you get based on being over 50, the money needs to be seasoned for 60 days.

Once there is 45 days or LESS left on that new 90 day permission to stay stamp you got:
Go to your bank, have them write the bank letter again stating you have 800K baht in your account
Update your bank book (on the day you apply for the extension) fill out the appropriate forms, make the required copies of your passport pages, and the bank book pages and go back to Chaengwattana Thai Immigration and apply for a yearly extension of stay based on being over 50 and meeting the financial requirements. It will cost you 1900baht
You'll get the year's extension on the day you apply. After that, IF you're going to leave the country at any time during the next year you should also purchase at least a single re-entry permit (1000baht) which lets you leave and re-entry once without losing your extension of stay. Or if you're comin' in and out of the country a lot, get a multiple entry re-entry permit for 3800baht and you can come and go all you want for the validity of your extension to stay.

FWIW: There is NO seasoning required when first applying for a single entry 90 day Non-Immigrant Type-O visa inside the country. I've had people with their bank books showing the money arrived yesterday successfully apply for the Non-O..

That's as clear as I can make it. It reads a LOT more complicated than it really is to do. Honestly, it's as close to a step-by-step guide as I can outline.

NOTE: this is how you do this in Bangkok. I have abso-tively posi-lutely no frickin idea how anywhere else does it.. Sorry..

Hope it helps..
Tod

Welcome to the Buffalo Board, JMC...Err, hang on...Are you still there?...

Originally Posted by John Michael Clopein

Go crawl back under your rock you imbecile.

Now, now was that comment really necessary?

Especially seeing as you're ultimate goal is to get a year long extension of stay based on being over 50 here inside the kingdom, WHICH you can't do unless you have a Non-O visa..

Getting a single entry 90 day Non-O visa BEFORE you wash up here cuts two steps out of what I call the 3 step process <-I coined that catchy phrase because of this:
When in Bangkok;
1) apply for a 90 day single entry Non-Immigrant Type-O visa for 2000baht
WAIT 15 days as it goes under consideration then;
2) go back and get the new visa and your new 90 day permission to stay stamp
3) when you have 45 days or less go back and apply for a year's extension based on being over 50 for 1900baht.

FWIW: Unless you're a total 'dim', 'nit, 'half', 'fuck' (select one) -wit, something which btw; the jury is still out on, you certainly don't need a 60 day tourist visa to pull this process off.

Just an observation (being an asshole myself); I'm gonna level with you, comin' on a forum as a new member seeking information, then deriding or denigrating responses to your queries are highly unlikely to yield good results..

I think your personality is much more in line with you being a poser on the T/V forum. Teak door might not be your cup 'o tea.

Thread of the day....

Give the guy a chance. He's a newby and didn't/doesn't know what's what yet. Obviously he thought someone was taking the piss and responded accordingly. Hopefully he'll see the error he made and appoligise, maybe?

Not necessarily from somtamslap's semi-coherent rant but;

Perhaps I was a little too hasty in my rush to judge the O/P.

I guess time will tell if he makes the cut.