I presume that you bought a Re-Entry Permit prior to exiting Thailand, otherwise the 1-year extension of your Non Imm O Visa for retirement became invalid the moment you left Thailand.
When you re-enter Thailand on that Re-Entry Permit you will be stamped in by Thai border immigration for the remainder of your Permission to stay.
So when you only plan to stay 3 months, it would be easier for you to ask border immigration on your return to ignore that Re-Entry Permit, and simply stamp you in Visa Exempt which will provide you with a 60 days Permission to stay stamp which can be easily extended for an additional 30 days at any Thai provincial Imm Office (costs 1.900 THB and is delivered on the spot).
The DTV can ONLY be applied for when in your home-country, but afaik that Visa has not yet become available (it was planned to be rolled out in July) and so the requirements for an application from the Thai embassy/consulate in US are not clear yet. It might involve having Thai-approved Health-Insurance.
Note that you can only do online work for non-Thai customers with that DTV and that you must have evidence of a 'cultural' reason to apply for it (e.g. learning Thai language, Thai cooking, muay thai, or likewise).
My O retirement visa (1 year extension) expires in Jan 2025. I don't think I can easily renew it as I didn't have the 800k in my bank account for the first few months.
I read about the DTV visa and it might actually be better for me (I'm working).
My question is can I apply for that now while my O visa is still active?
I'll be back in Thailand in January for maybe 1-2 months and guess I could just exit when my O expires and come back in just after, and get the 60 day exemption stamp, and later apply for the DTV when back in the USA.
Thx.
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