Yeah that's definitely not good. There's a new office on a small island, I forget which one, they recently started charging an extra 500 baht for extensions to "pay for the air conditioning"

Airports charge 200 baht extra for filling in the forms and doing the photo. If you do both of those yourself it should be the normal price, same as the immigration office: Single entry 1000 baht, multiple entry 3800 baht.

I haven't seen any reports outside of that.

@William ********

As of last week there is a huge crackdown on scam accounts and the biggest agents in Pattaya have all stopped doing bank accounts. They cannot even do bank accounts if you want a visa in Pattaya right now.

@Jason *****

Just check the website of either of the Thai embassy in either of those places and double check what their requirements are for non-O visa, and that they provide services to non-residents.

@William ********

Maybe you haven't kept up with the news lately. Most people that only want a bank account have to go to Pattaya to get it, and those agents aren't able to do so at the moment.

@Jason *****

The 90-day non-O IS the retirement visa, so you can't extend to it. If you arrive on a 90-day non-O based on retirement, then you can apply for a 1-year extension (not a visa) at your local immigration office, if you can meet the requirements.

@Andrew ******

Yeah, they're not going to sit around and wait for you. They're not a tour company. They get as many people across and back as they can, and then they are done. Maybe there are agents that hang around at the border, but you'd have to find that yourself as 99% of people just want to go cross back and go back home.

@Jason *****

It's the 1-year non-OA that requires a criminal record check, medical check, and insurance.

The 90-day non-O does not require any of that, just proof of funds in your bank account back home.

@Andrew ******

I only know Bangkok agents, and none of them do anything except drive you straight to the border and back. They're agents not tour guides. Their job is to get you stamped out of Thailand and back in again without any problems.

1) they've always glued it on for me, but I've never gotten a retirement extension. Just other types.

2) obviously you cannot get an exit stamp BEFORE you exit Thailand. How would that even work? There's no line for people who already have a stamp. You'd still have to wait in line. It doesn't make sense.

You likely won't be dealing with it anyways since most people exit through the automated gates now and don't receive an exit stamp at all.