Questioner: Rudi
As I am going to travel to Thailand from Belgium on a non immigrant visa O and as I am 56 years old and I read so much here on this website which is starting to be suspected, but was answered very professionally.
I want to convert my visa O to an annual visa after 60 days. I know that I have to deposit 65.000 baht into my account from Belgium, as there will soon be no more affidavit delivered by the Belgian embassy
- But should this deposit only be made 2 or 3 months before the application and/or extension or should I continue to make this deposit as long as my annual visa is valid, until I have my annual visa extended again?
- Is there no problem if I send some of that 65.000 baht back to Belgium every month, as I only need 20.000 baht in Isaan to live well?
- Kasikorn insurance inpatient covered for 200.000 baht or should I take the one of 500.000 baht and is this insurance from kasikorn accepted by immigration?
Please share your experience and certainly Ronny's professional answers.
PS, I am still registered with the municipality that I am married to a Thai girlfriend, married in Belgium, but she lives in Spain and I live in Belgium, can I also use this certificate of excerpt from the municipality in English, to transfer from visa O to an annual visa in Thailand if so, which documents do I still need for immigration.
I could also obtain a one-year visa here in Belgium, but they require documents that must be signed by my (ex) and also her Thai ID, which I cannot provide.
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1. You mean the 90 days you will get with that Non-immigrant O, that you want to extend it by a year. You can indeed start the application 60 days after arrival.
2. If you use deposits, you can, in principle, only show deposits from arrival with the first application for renewal. Normally there will be at least 2. This only applies to the first application for an annual extension. Afterwards, at the next annual renewals you will have to show deposits over a whole year.
3. You do what you want with that money after it has been deposited.
But let me give a general tip for everyone and people can do what they want with it. If there is a suspicion that money is being refunded abroad, to then be transferred back to Thailand as income in order to meet the monthly sum, you can sometimes ask for proof of where your income comes from. It is not because an Affidavit is no longer issued, or any other “Proof of income from an embassy/consulate”, that immigration cannot request the original proof of that foreign income. They always have that right. That has always been the case, but it rarely happened. In any case, really don't think now that immigration doesn't know this is happening. Whether they react to it, whether they care that someone does that is something else of course.
4. No type of insurance is currently required for a year extension of a period of residence obtained with a Non-immigrant O.
5. For a “Thai Marriage” extension, you will have to provide the necessary proof that you live together “de jure et de facto”, which means that you not only legally but also have to live/live together. In your case, I think that will be difficult to prove and therefore probably that you cannot obtain that visa in Belgium. I suspect that will be no different with immigration in Thailand. Normally, for a “Thai Marriage” your wife will also have to be present with your application.
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