Reporting Fees etc

[Big Boy]

It's only a few weeks until I enter the fray, and will have to join many of you at Immigration. I've got a couple of basic questions i.e.:

- I believe that I will be required to report 3 monthly to immigration. Is this simply reporting to let them know that I'm still alive and living in Hua Hin, or is there a fee and paperwork involved? If there is a fee, how much is it please?

- I will have to obtain my extension based on retirement. I read enough times about the various documents required, but nobody has mention the fee. How much does that cost please?

[lomuamart]

There's no fee for the 90 day report. Just fill in a short form - TM47. Need to give your address - no proof necessary. Take your passport along together with the previous report slip that they staple inside and they stamp another date on the slip, not in your passport, for 90 days ahead. No photos required.
Fee for extension is 1,900 THB.
EDIT Just looked at the form and you also have to give the date you entered Thailand (obviously stamped in your passport), how you arrived (air/land), your passport number, arrival card number, address, telephone number and sign.
The forms are all available at Imm. Once you get seen, it takes all of 2-3 mins.

[Big Boy]

Thanks for that - something for nothing

Am I right in thinking the form for extension is the TM7 please?

Now a further question. I'll be arriving on an O visa. When it's time to extend on the basis of retirement, does it also require a TM86?

.............. Or am I totally off course?

[lomuamart]

Reporting form is TM 47.
I'd never heard of a TM86 but having Googled it I see it's for a change of visa. No, you won't need one of those. You're arriving on an O visa and not altering it, just getting an extension.
I assume that the TM86 is for those who, for instance, upgrade their visa from tourist to Non O whilst here.

[Big Boy]

Thanks for the clarification

Does the TM47 do the initial extension based on retirement, or is that yet another form please?

[chaspul]

Big Boy

TM 47 90 day report.
TM 7 extension of stay.
TM 86 change of visa to Non-Immigrant "O"

As you will already have "O" the TM 7 will be used to extend it.
All immigration forms can be downloaded from http://www.immigration.go.th/nov2004/en ... e=download and filled in on your computer.
I save a copy of TM 47 to "My Docs" for both my wife and I, so that every 90 days I only have to change the reporting date, print and sign.
Just noticed that Imm web site says that 2 page forms should be back to back. However, did not do this on my last TM7 and had no problems.

Chas

[lomuamart]

It's a different form for extension - the TM7 you referred to earlier. More detailed than the TM47 but easily completed. Again, it's available from Imm. When you go there, there's a desk outside and all relevant forms are there. I normally grab a couple of 90 day report and extension forms on my visit prior to needing them. That way you can complete them at home when necessary.

[Pagey]

BB, Lomu & Chas,

Thanks for the questions and answers/info : I arrived on 2nd Feb on a Non imm O and I will convert to OA later in the year after a few trips so all useful for me also.

[Big Boy]

Thank you very much guys for the above information

It's obviously one of those things that's easy once you know how, but a nightmare until you do.

[lomuamart]

Pagey,
Just semantics maybe, but you can't convert any type of visa to an OA within Thailand.
I assume you mean that you'll extend your O visa annually?
If you were to go to HH Imm with all your paperwork and ask to change your visa to an OA, they'd be dumbstruck. However, I'm sure that they'd suggest that you extended the O visa for a year.
Amounts to the same thing in terms of length of stay here though - 1 year.
Basically, as long as you do your annual extensions on time, you'll always be extending off the O visa you have now - even if it expired 20 years before.

[PeteC]

What happens when your Passport expires and subsequently the base O visa is already expired. Do they move the old, expired one to your new passport and keep extending off of that, or do you then need to get a new O? Pete

[Nereus]

What happens when your Passport expires and subsequently the base O visa is already expired. Do they move the old, expired one to your new passport and keep extending off of that, or do you then need to get a new O? Pete

They move it, Pete. In Bangkok zilch, in Hua Hin 500 Baht and a fake receipt given.

[Pagey]

Lomu : from a previous thread on visas I thought provided I met all the criteria, over 50, cash in bank etc I could change my visa to an OA at HH immigration......................

Edit : Just found my previous post and apparently it is an extension of stay based on the 'retirement' criteria mentioned above but still using my Non Imm O Multi entry (reply from lomu of course ).

Basically I want to avoid doing visa runs hence I wanted the OA but it seems with an extension of stay based on retirement allows me the same - i.e. just visit imm every 90 days with the correct paperwork ?

What is the benefit of an OA over my O and how to obtain an OA or is there no need ???

[hhfarang]

I have an OA for reason of retirement and I haven't left the country in over 7 years... so the main advantage is no visa runs. You do have to have 800k in the bank or prove an overseas income of 65k per month, and be over 50. I got mine in the U.S. and just extend it annually here. I don't know if you can change to one here or not.

[Big Boy]

What is the benefit of an OA over my O and how to obtain an OA or is there no need ???

It is my understanding that you need to pay for medical and police checks in your own country to present as part of your evidence for an OA. Also, reading various websites yesterday, it was reckoned that the process of obtaining an OA could take an additional 40 days.