There is an analysis of a to the requirements for the retired guy's visa. It was posted by Sunbelt Asia on Thai Visa. In the past, Sunbelt has been a reliable source of information. Apparently these changes are effective September 1, 2007, though they are subject to review next week.

This will not have any significant effect on most of us, but for a few, it could be devastating.

(Note: When I visited immigration in Bangkok last Friday, I noticed an immigration officer having a fellow hand-draw a map, filling in street names, etc. I wondered what that was all about.)

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php ... pic=140252

From the post:
[quote]No More Dependent Extension Of Stay If The Host Foreigner Has A Retirement Extension Of Stay Permit
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Map required

If a foreigner has been granted a extension of stay based on retirement, until now as per 7.19 of the Royal Police Office Order 606/2006 his or her foreign dependent ( Wife or husband, child, father, mother) could get a extension of stay by being a dependent. As of Sept 1st, no more dependent extension of stay permits will be issued if the foreigner has a extension of stay based on retirement. This includes any

And the screw tightens yet another turn.............................

Whenever there are changes, they are always for the worse - never the better

Hence the reason many folks are contemplating Cambodia for retirement.

rickfarang wrote:
If you are applying for the extension of stay based on retirement. You now need to provide a map from Immigration to your house.

Lee, sounds like you can set up another business - supplying maps for retirees!!!!

How detailed does the map have to be??? Would one showing Nong Khai & Udon Thani do????

Let me get this straight. This applies only if all members of the family are foreigners?

Does immigration use GPS's? Maybe that would suffice instead of a map.

Ricohoc wrote:Let me get this straight. This applies only if all members of the family are foreigners?

Ricohock, my reading of it is that this applies to individual people. rather than families. According to Sunbelt Asia's post, those people who are staying in Thailand with visas that they obtained on the basis of being supported by a retired person will no longer be able to receive those visas or have them extended.

Ricohoc
the members of the family who are not foreigners

A Brittish Embassy representative in Pattaya have been in contact with the Pattaya Immigration who has dubble checked with Bangkok, turned out this new changes was nothing but a hoax from Sunbelt Asia.... Apperently this is not the first time Sunbelt comes out with the wrong information althought I never heard about it before.

All the changes posted in the article is a hoax?What about the post about seeing a falang drawing a map at immigration?

I would hope Sunbelt will respond to these alligations? If this is true and is a hoax, thier credibility is ruined.

I got my "retirement" visa extension in Pattaya on Thursday (Sept. 6) and they didn't ask for a map.

No map required by Pattaya Immigration.
I do not know if any one else have noticed that changes to visa regulations normally takes place on October 1 ?

Ran across this posting on thaivisa.co, and am not sure if everybody else who might be affected has seen it.

Dependents linked to a retiree's visa are allowed again. It seems that the organization that set out the new rules did not have the authority to do so, and immigration acted prematurely when enforcing these rules without proper approval of them.

"The previously reported change in the regulations has not been enacted by Bangkok Immigration after a meeting held earlier today.

Bangkok Immigration will follow National Police Order 606, and applications from dependants are now being accepted/issued."

Here is where it is discussed in the thaivisa(dot)com forum:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php ... pic=143546

Here is a version of the rules as there were and are (the October 1, 2006 rules)
http://www.lawyer.th.com/National_Polic ... t_2006.pdf


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I arrived back in Thailand 02-10-07 and was due to make a 90 day report 22-10-07. Once before they had told me I had to resubmit a new form so off I went to NK with my form. They asked me what I wanted, looked at my passport, took out old reporting slip and stapled a new new in with a 5-01-2008 reporting date. I offered the form but they did not want it. I am sure if I did not have the form they would have wanted it.

John