Can I qualify for a 1-year Non-O retirement visa in Thailand using either a lump sum in my bank account or monthly income?

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Non O and Non OA visa DIFFERENCE

Since October 2023, the Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa is only available as a 90-days single entry visa. When you enter Thailand, you get stamped in for a 90-days admitted stay.

For the 1-year Extension of Temporary Stay Permit out of this 90-days stay permit, one can obtain a multiple entry permit on Immigration. This re-entry permit allows you to exit and re-enter Thailand during the 1-year stay permit as many times as you wish.

*** The alternative would be the 365-days multiple entry Non-Imm-O/A Longstay Visa.

This visa however comes with a mandatory health insurance, a police record check and a medical health certificate.

The Non-O/A Longstay Visa can only be applied for in your home country (i.e. the country of your official residence).

You need a financial proof of a minimum of 800,000 THB equivalent in your country's currency in your home bank account.

The only advantage is that within the first 2 years, you can leave the financial proof of 800K in your home bank account. You don’t need to show money in a Thai bank.

But as soon as you switch to the annual 1-year Extension of the Stay Permit, the financial proof must be made inside Thailand.

From the extension onward, the mandatory health insurance must be a tgia-listed private Thai health insurance (you could argue the true value of such contracts). And you need a minimum of 800,000 THB in your Thai bank account. On the day you apply, this money must have seasoned for 2 months.

Alternatively you could supply an income affidavit of your embassy over a monthly 65,000 THB income.

In case your embassy does not issue such affidavits anymore (these are the US,UK, Australian, Canadian and Norwegian embassies) you should ask your Immigration if they accept a 12-months bank statement over the consecutive monthly transfer from abroad of a minimum of 65,000 THB, month for month not missing a single month.

*** The 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa has no mandatory health insurance requirement, and no such police and medical checks requirements.

It only requires you to get a Thai bank account opened ASAP after entering Thailand and getting stamped in for 90 days, and transfer a minimum of 800,000 THB into it, because you need proof this money has been sitting in your account for 2 months in order to apply for the 1-year Extension of Stay Permit Based on Retirement (at least in the first year)

*** For people who wish to relocate for a planned Longstay in Thailand, I recommend to start on the Non-O (without the “A”) Visa, because on this visa you keep your freedom of choice regarding the health insurance.

People who plan to go back to their home countries every second year, and apply for the next Non-Imm-O/A Longstay Visa, it could be the alternative to keep a worthy foreign health insurance and leave their money in their home banks.

The Non-O/A visa gets you stamped in for a 365-days stay permit - but maximum only as long as your health insurance is worth for.

If you exit and re-enter Thailand during the first 1-year visa validity, you will always get stamped in for another 365-days, but respectively only for the duration of your health insurance.

That's why many applicants to the Non-O/A visa, will sign an insurance contract for two full years from the start, as this will be noted on the .pdf visa document of the Thai embassy, and every Immigration officer at the borders will acknowledge it and stamp you in accordingly.

He has to apply for an Non-immigrant ''0'' visa from the Thai embassy in the UK.

London consulate only asks for £10,000 and show 3 month’s statements and they send to you in about 4 to 5 days they are very fast at the moment

There is a 90 day non o, and a 1 year non oa...just to confuse us.

£18,000 is not 800,000 at current exchange rates.. right ?

There is no 1 year non-o visa. You will apply for a 90-day visa showing either of the two funding methods. Then you will go to Thailand season the 800K in a Thai bank account in your name only and apply for the one year extension after 2 months of seasoning.

Scott Powell its either but first year means ฿800,000 in a bank do apply for the NON O in your home country. Then fly to Thailand, season your ฿800,000 in your thai account and apply for your 12-month extension.

It's an either/or statement.

I’ve just done my retirement visa through the embassy in London. I used the £.00 in an English bank account in my name. Just attach the bank statement to the online form you fill in.

I submitted the form with the attachments on Friday and on Wednesday it was approved and emailed back to me.

No issues it’s EITHER and you may apply for a Non O with a lump sum of £ .