Message: Dirk
Subject: Immigration Hua Hin
Non immigrant retirement visa in Hua Hin. Necessary documents (multiple entry), copy x2 from:
- Passport (main page + all sheets with stamps and visas (sticking)).
- TM 6 form last entry Thailand.
- Completed TM7 form
- Completed TM 8 form
- Bank book all pages where something is printed.
- Proof of address in Thailand.
- 2 passport photos (for TM7 and TM8 forms).
Waiting time included, I had the requested visa after 1,5 hours. So help quickly. When I asked how the bank book would be checked (3 months after visa 800k thb – rest of the year (400k thb) until 2 months before new visa (again 800k thb), I received the following answer:
“Immigration may ask you to prove your bank balance at any time. This in the same way as for obtaining the visa. So with bank book and letter from the bank.
I assume that they will do this in case of doubt or people who were not always in order in the past (overstay, 90-day notification,…). At least that's what the officer made it seem.
Reaction RonnyLatYa
Thanks for the report Dirk.
As for that evidence. Each immigration office will handle this in its own way. There is also nowhere in the regulations when or even if it should be checked. But if you demand something, you better check it too, of course. One will do that on the occasion of one or more 90 days notifications, others will say a date, others may contact you and say to come with or not with a bank letter or just an update of the bank book, still others will simply request the next wait for an annual extension and then see what has happened to the amount throughout the year. If you comply, you can apply for a new year extension. If not, they may refuse it.
So, as you have done, it is best to ask immediately. Don't be surprised.
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I still had a question about that 800.000 bath that you cannot get hold of for 3 months. If you are going to use money from that 3 bath account after that period of 800000 months, do you have to top up that 800000 bath in time for your new retirement application? ?
Of course you have to fill it in again before submitting a new application.
After all, the amount of 800 Baht must be on it at least 000 months before applying for an extension.
In reality, you will not be allowed to arrive there for at least 5 months, i.e. 2 months before the application is submitted until 3 months after the extension has been granted. If you are unlucky enough that they work with an “Under consideration” stamp of one month, you may not even be allowed to arrive for 6 months, because it is 3 months after the award. You can then drop the remaining months, if you want, to 400 Baht.
Maybe I'm wrong, but wasn't it the case that with the first year extension the money had to be in the bank two months in advance, but with subsequent repeats three months?
Under the new rules, this should no longer be applied.
If an immigration office continues to stick to that, so as it used to be 2 months on the first application and 3 months on subsequent applications, then that is something they are imposing locally but is certainly not something that was imposed in the new regulations.
so for the umpteenth time…..
“At least 2 months prior to filing date, and at least 3 months after being granted permission, the alien must have fund deposited in a bank in Thailand of no less than THB 800,000. The alien can withdraw the fund 3 months after being granted permission and the remaining balance must be no less than THB 400,00
https://www.thailandblog.nl/visumvraag/nieuwe-retirement-regels/
Under the new rules, this should no longer be applied.
If an immigration office continues to stick to that, so as it used to be 2 months on the first application and 3 months on subsequent applications, then that is something they are imposing locally but is certainly not something that was imposed in the new regulations.
so for the umpteenth time…..
“At least 2 months prior to filing date, and at least 3 months after being granted permission, the alien must have fund deposited in a bank in Thailand of no less than THB 800,000. The alien can withdraw the fund 3 months after being granted permission and the remaining balance must be no less than THB 400,00
https://www.thailandblog.nl/visumvraag/nieuwe-retirement-regels/
Apparently the response to Han was sent twice.
Just a question: why provide a completed TM 8 Form when renewing your annual visa? That is not a requirement to my knowledge.
It can be useful if you know the time when you are going abroad at the time of your visa extension.
But in itself TM 8 is not a required document for annual visa extension.
No, that is not necessary for an annual extension.
But it says that he also applied for his “Re-entry” (although he calls it multiple entry).
He just applied for a year extension and a “Re-entry” at the same time