@Vin ********

Vin Burnett

You are wrong when you wrote

“it depends. My OA, re-entry is good for 1 year upon entry. That would be 365 days past my visa if I re-entered on the last day of my visa”

This part of your post is wrong: “re-entry is good for 1 year upon entry. That would be 365 days past my visa”

No, the re-entry is NOT good for one year

It is only good for the time left of your visa validity, which can never correspond to the same day of you have entered Thailand

@Vin ********

That’s not really 100% how a Non-Imm-O/A visa works

The visa has a validity of ONE YEAR from the date it is issued.

The visa comes with a multi re-entry permit included, which is valid for the duration of the visa validity

*** when you enter, you will get stamped in for 365 days

Now, given you waited 4 weeks after the visa got issued, before you flew to Thailand, the remaining visa validity will be 11 months from the day you entered, and the remaining validity of the multi re-entry permit will also be only 11 months.

*** if you fail to exit and re-enter before the visa validity expires, you can only stay until the date that you got stamped upon the entry

You only get stamped into the “second year stay permit” of a Non-O/A visa, if you exit and re-enter before the visa expires, but you won’t have a re-entry permit any more after the expiry of the visa validity

the expiry of a visa validity and the expiry of a stay permit stamp are TWO completely different dates! If you buy a re-entry permit, it will expire on the same date as your stay permit. It will NOT expire on the date the visa validity expires

you also could apply for a 365-days Non-Imm-O/A visa in the U.K. This will stamp you in on each entry for another 365 days (given that the mandatory health insurance which is needed for this visa also carries that far). You use it for 5 months and two weeks, go back to the U.K., re-enter before the expiry of this visa and make a border run, this will get you stamped in for the last 365-days. This visa would cover two 6-months stays, within a two-year period 😉 . . the financial proof of 800,000 THB equivalent in GBP can remain in your UK bank account

@Tony *********

I am referring to the application to the initial 90-days Non-Imm-O visa inside Thailand only. If you apply it in your home country, there is no need to prove where the 800,000 THB came from

@Steve *******

just wait and learn

@Tony *********

it's a part of the standing police order of the change of visa type" that the 800,000 THB must have been transferred from abroad for the application to the initial visa. Jomtien Immigration makes an exception, however Jomtien will ask for a 2 (or a 3!) months seasoning for the application to the initial visa

@Tony ********

2 million THB to Bangkok Bank, 2 million to Kasikorn, 1.5 million to Siam Commercial Bank. And only 49,999 THB to all other banks

and if you use WISE, and need the transfer to be coded as having come from abroad, you need to pick the correct reason for the transfer when asked by WISE. Because WISE normally uses their Thai account for the last step, so it will be coded by your Thai bank as having come from inside Thailand

@Gary **********

sorry I do not have an answer to that. . ya need to contact a pro