Can I maintain my retirement visa status while working outside Thailand every year?

Moving forward if you put 800k in a bank for the visa and then take it out then you may need to pay tax on that each year, if you just leave it in the account you won't need to, or you can pay an agent extra to 'show' the 800k each year, but again you may become liable for some tax doing it that way too

Go to a lawyer in thailand and get a will drawn up in Thai & English about 7000tbh

There is no retirement visa. It’s O or OA non immigrant based on retirement. O.A. can alone in your own country. O can also in Thailand . Both you need money in the bank prior 3 months before and 2 months after…and if 800.000 can not lesser during the year as 400.000

Is an income of / month still an alternative to the 0

The Non Imm O is the 'retirement' visa, just apply for the 1 year extension every year.

Do what I do! Just leave it in the bank and never touch it! Never think about it!

@Chris ********

It’s all about the terminology, folks!

You apply for a 90 days Non-imm-O retirement visa in the UK

You enter Thailand and will get stamped in for a 90-days stay permit.

The visa will expire upon entry!

From up to 30 days before the 90-days stay permit expires, you can apply for the “1-year extension of the stay permit”.

Thai Immigration calls it “visa extension” but this is just bad English. They don’t extend any non-existent visa, they just extend your stay permit.

At the day of your application to the 1-year Extension, they 800.000.- THB must have been sitting in your Thai bank account for 2 months, and you need to prove this with the “bank letter of guarantee” (in Thai: rab roong thanakan)

After being issued the one-year Retirement Extension, a minimum of 800.000.- THB must remain in your account for at least three months. After this, you could theoretically take money out but there must always be 400.000 THB left in the account.

And two months before your next application for a NEW (!) 1-year Extension of Stay Permit, a minimum of 800.000.- THB must be back in your account

You do not need to apply for a new 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement visa. You just “renew” the yearly “Extension of Stay”

The moment when Immigration issues the Extension, ALWAYS buy a single re-entry permit for 1000.- THB for this one-year extended stay permit. Bring at least two passport pictures for this permit. Because if you exit Thailand during this one year, the re-entry permit keeps your stay permit alive, for one single re-entry

Should you plan to exit Thailand more often than three times in one year, then buy a multi re-entry permit for 3800.- THB. It allows you unlimited re-entries into Thailand

Just put 0baht in thai bank and come on 30 day exempt and apply Thailand 🇹🇭 using an agent for a non o retirement visa multi entry easy mate 👍

If you get your Non-O in the UK you will be applying for the 12 month Extension of Stay in Thailand, not a Visa. You apply for a new Extension of Stay every year, no need for a new Non-O. All extensions in Thailand cost 1900B.