rosyrose
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Thank you very much for this helpful advice. I see that a visit to the IO is on the cards!
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It looks like I’m going to have to extend my OA visa in-country (at Chiang Mai IO), rather than hop in and out of the country as I’d hoped to do. I know I have to have 800,000THB in my Thai bank account for two months before I apply. My questions now are:
1. What are the current insurance requirements please?
2. Is the paperwork still:
TM7
Passport, with signed copies of all pages
Passport photos
Copy of bank book
Letter from bank confirming status
3. Do I need a residency certificate?
Thanks in advance
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Thank you Peter Denis for your helpful extra prompt. Fortunately we got a full year’s stamp.
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Thanks again.
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Sorry - one supplementary. Does the 800k have to be proven to be transferred from an overseas account?
Thanks
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Thank you - just the info I needed.
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I have a non-immigrant OA over 55 visa granted in the UK. Sticker date is January 27th 2020, stamp date 18th March 2020. I have been living in Chiang Mai since arrival. I want to stay in Thailand for a while and was intending to get a 12 month extension by leaving the kingdom and returning before January, but this now seems unfeasible. I understand I'm too late at this point to establish monthly income, so my only option to extend is to apply in-country and to bring in 800,000THB. My questions are:
1) when does the money have to be in my account - before the sticker date or before the stamp date?
2) for how long in advance of my application does it have to be in the account?
3) how long (typically) does the application take to process?
4) once the application is approved and the visa extension issued, for how long does the money have to remain untouched?
Thanks in advance for advice.
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Thank you for responses. The point is that the IO didn’t want to give me a new stamp. I got the impression that they didn’t think it was worth it, but my Thai was not up to understanding. It sounds like there is little practical difference at this stage, but obviously I need to get any extension or new stamp in my new passport.
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Sorry this is long, detail seems necessary. I have a UK passport, with a non-immigrant OA visa issued in the UK. Sticker expires in January, stamp in March. I have just got a new passport, as the old one was due to expire in April. When I got the new one (via the embassy-approved agency in Chiang Mai), I was advised to visit immigration to get the stamp transferred to it and given a letter from the embassy to facilitate the process. When I went to the office yesterday, the triage volunteers gave me a form to fill out and sent me to get copies of every stamp, sticker, TM30, 90 day report and departure card slip in my old passport. In the office however, the IOs told me that I had a choice of either getting the stamp transferred, or just always showing my old passport along with the new one. When I asked what the difference would be, they told me to go away and just show my old and new passports together when required. I then went to a different desk for my 90 day report. It was issued on my old passport and I was told that I should transfer the stamp to the new one before the next time. I’m at a loss as to whether it makes any real difference to have the stamp in my new passport and whether I should try again. I think the issue must be that though they can give me a new stamp, they can’t give me a new sticker, so I would always need to use the old passport if I was relying on that. Advice appreciated.
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Thank you both.
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Appreciate some clarification please. I’m in Thailand on an O-A visa which expires in January 2021. I got it at the embassy in London so only had to have the annual health insurance, not money deposited in a Thai bank. I believe I can extend for a year without depositing money if I leave Thailand and return before the expiry of the visa. Putting aside current restrictions on leaving and returning, is that correct? And if so, I assume there’s no restriction on where I go - I could just hop into a neighbouring country and back? Thanks in advance.
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Thank you all for your advice. I think I will try for a 60 day in Saigon, with a CM re-entry VE + Mai Sai as a back up. We also want to slightly stagger our renewal dates, to avoid Christmas, so we need to go out of the country to do this.
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3 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:
Some specific advice would depend where you are in los.
In Chiang Mai.
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19 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:
I'm not saying you cannot obtain another setv, however keep in mind you can do 2 visa exempt entries per calendar year entering via border. Each can be extended by 30 days. Meaning 4 months.
Airports esp DM getting tricky.
Yes, of course, I’d temporarily forgotten that I could extend a VE entry. That’s a back up plan, thank you. Would prefer a 60+30 option if possible however.
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I am a UK citizen with a 60 day tourist SETV visa issued in London. This is the second 60 day SETV I've had this calendar year, with a break of 3 months between the two. I have extended both here in Chiang Mai. I'm now just in my final 30 days. I'd like to stay until the end of January, and was planning to exit the country to get a 60 day tourist visa from a nearby embassy at the end of this thirty days, then extending that in due course. Given the recent issues with refusals of multiple tourist visas, what's my best strategy? Which embassy would be best to try - I was thinking of KL, with a back up Penang or Singapore? Or would it be better to just hop in and out (by air) three times, relying on 30 day VE exempt for re-entry? Any advice appreciated.
Current in-country OA visa extension insurance and paperwork requirements
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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In case anyone from Chiang Mai is looking for the same information, I visited the airport IO today and spoke to a volunteer about requirements for extending my OA visa. He directed me to the attached notices, which detail what paperwork is required over and above the approved insurance. He told me that the bank statement and the bank letter can both be up to 7 days old at the date of application. He also gave me a copy of the TM7 form. The volunteers at the office are very helpful and well worth consulting.