Questioner: Ruud
I am 60, married to a Thai, and will travel to Thailand in early December with a Non-O visa and CoE to build a new life there. At the beginning of February I will apply for a year extension based on retirement.
We will first stay in Bangkok for 3 months and then want to live in different places in Thailand for 1 or 2 months to see where we want to settle permanently.
My question to you is whether this plan, to live everywhere for only 1 or 2 months, can be combined with the extension of the period of residence and the 90-day notifications. For example, when I apply for the renewal, I can always only show a 2-month contract, and the same goes for the 90-day notifications.
Do you have experience with this, and do you have any tips or warnings?
Thank you!
Reaction RonnyLatYa
I assume your wife is registered somewhere on a blue tabien lane. With her parents or something. Just use that as a permanent address to obtain your year extension and pending a definitive address where you will live. You don't normally have to show a rental contract because you live with your wife. Even if the request is based on retirement. You can make your 90-day reports online at that address from anywhere, or go to that immigration office.
You can then live anywhere temporarily as a trial. A TM30 from the owner at that address is sufficient as a temporary address.
At your next annual renewal you use that permanent address of your wife again, or maybe you have already found a permanent place and use that address.
Or you will always change your address at immigration when you move. Can also. No one is obliged to continue living at an address. Normally they don't really look at the length of a lease with an annual extension, if it is asked at all, because that is not the case everywhere. But you do have to provide proof of address of course with a year extension, but for some immigration offices a TM30, proof of payment of utilities, etc ... depends on your immigration office where you would ask for the year extension.
For a change of fixed address, the TM28/TM30 normally suffices.
Am preparing my return to Thailand. A difficult jigsaw puzzle. And also tight because on Monday 21 December it is stamped in my passport that the Retirement Visa expires.
My question is can I extend my retirement visa on that day or do I have to do so no later than Friday 18 December? That saves 3 days in my already strict schedule.
Who knows the redeeming answer.
Heading to this a second question, for over 10 years I have been extending my Retirement Visa where I live: in Chiang Mai. Could I also do it in Bankok (where the quarantine will take place, that also saves some time)
Normally your renewal ends on December 21. This means that you could still extend on December 21.
It is, of course, all to see how to read "until" or "up to". Usually it means “up to and including”.
But since the immigration offices are closed on December 9 and 20 (WE) and in that case you can still apply for the next working day, it should work on December 21.
But if you can, you better play on some certainty and try to extend December 18 in Chiang Mai.
Normally you have to apply for the year extension at the Chiang Mai immigration office because you live there.
Please keep this in mind:
GROUP 10 : Non-immigrant O (retirement) visa <
Dear Ronnie!
Should I conclude from the aforementioned answer to Ton that you always have to apply for an extension in the place where you live (Bankok) and therefore cannot arrange an extension at your holiday address (Rayong)?
Regards, Haki
Yes, because that immigration office manages you administratively.
You can move that to Rayong of course. You will also have to change your permanent address to Rayong. Can be done with a TM28.
This of course does not apply to extensions of stay periods obtained with a Tourist visa, i.e. extensions of 30 days. You can extend this at any immigration office.