New Police Order issued re: Proof of Income - Thai Retirement Visa

**travelerjim** · January 4th, 2019, 22:48

FYI...Sharing this...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1395...9057760418080/

From Facebook posting by Tod Daniels
Admin of Thai Visa Advice on Facebook

"Okay, I have a draft copy of the Thai language amendments to the Police order 138/2557 concerning the proof of funds when using the income method for extensions of stays based on being over 50, being married to a Thai & raising half-Thai children. :O It was issued on the 21st and is stamped the 26th of Dec.

Now that police order is different from the one 327/2557 in so far as they spell out different things (and the same things different ways). The 138/2557 is the supporting documents and provisos for extensions and 327/2557 is the Criteria and Conditions. You really use them in conjunction with each other but all I have is the first one.

The banked money method is unchanged, the requisite funds in a Thai bank account in your name for the seasoning period before you apply for your extension.

-For countries that still issue the income affidavit they will still be accepted like normal.

-For countries that don't issue them any more you need to show 40K baht (for marriage/raising kids) per month (every month). This can be in the form of tax statements based on employment here in Thailand OR in transfers to a Thai bank account from overseas for 12 months before you apply for your extension and for retirement you need to show 65K baht a month per month (every month) for 12 months before you apply for your extension.

There is a post on the Thai visa forum where someone says the immigration office is going to "work" with people this first year and allow less than a full year's worth of transfers to be shown

BUT

Unfortunately that's not how I'm reading the Thai version.

It says for the first year when someone retires they are not obligated to show the 12 months of deposits via bank transfers. They use an example of IF you retire in Oct you only need to show the deposits from Nov on. It doesn't make any reference to an allowance for the first year THIS new amendment takes effect.

I am hoping that in the other police order 327/2557 they will address this because it's the one that lists seasoning of funds etc. Until I get my hands on that one you know as much as I do.

I am sorry if this raises more questions than it answers.."

End of post.

Tj

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**Smiles** · January 5th, 2019, 07:19

A sentence I've been looking for lately:

"For countries that still issue the income affidavit they will still be accepted like normal".

The Canadian Embassy/Consulate is still issuing Letters of Income.

The other day a Norwegian friend of mine went to Thai Immigration (Hua Hin) and received his 12-month Extension using his Embassy's Letter of Income only. He told me that there was no warning given that "things would be changing soon" (he asked).
Yes, anecdotal for sure.
Yes, the hammer may still fall.
Yes, things may or may not change.

Yada yada yada . . .

**ceejay** · January 5th, 2019, 07:45

Don't want to be nit-picking Travellerjim, but the Facebook post you quote begins "Okay, I have a draft copy.....". If it's still a draft then you cannot say it has been issued, as per the header to your post.
So my advice is wait and see, wait and see.......
Doesn't matter to me, I have always used 800K.

**frequent** · January 5th, 2019, 07:58

Originally Posted by ceejay

Don't want to be nit-picking Travellerjim, but the Facebook post you quote begins "Okay, I have a draft copy.....". If it's still a draft then you cannot say it has been issued, as per the header to your post.
So my advice is wait and see, wait and see.......
Doesn't matter to me, I have always used 800K.

Given the responses to this thread https://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showt...ng-in-thailand I wonder what the relevance is to posters here. However the whole Tod/Jim saga is a series of posts using very loose language and this is another example. In Jim's previous post Tod suggests that people overseas (and I'm capitalising because Tod does) can BUY an O-A visa; he then goes on to say that the Thai Cabinet has approved a proposal for mandatory health insurance for O-A visa purchasers whereas all the evidence is that the Thai Cabinet has had a proposal presented to them for consideration

**travelerjim** · January 5th, 2019, 11:23

Again frequent you must get your thrills by talking down my posts. The info is helpful as it appears to show direction of Thai Immigration as they prepare to issue new retirement visa income verification requirements.

Note the Thai police orders cited...its obvious to me that Tod Daniels has inside contacts with Thai Immigration.

As for me I got a new Non Immigrant O-A Multi-entry Visa for retirement from the Thai Consulate in Los Angeles in November 2018. Fee $200. And allows me one full year entry into Thailand including multiple re-entries during the first full year. If I leave and reenter Thailand just before the expiration of the one year I will get one additional year of stay. So in effect I can plan on having two years of retirement stay in Thailand without worry about what Thai Immigration does inside Thailand. FYI..the second year does not include single or multiple reentries permit. Must be purchased in the second year if you want it.

http://www.thaiconsulatela.org/servi...spx?link_id=48

Good luck...

**frequent** · January 5th, 2019, 11:56