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Can you apply for a retirement visa in Thailand after turning 50 while on a 60-day visa exemption?

Retirement Visa Non-O Visa Visa Application Process Thailand Immigration Expatriate Living in Thailand Visa Requirements Bank Account Requirements Re-entry Permits

Jul 18, 2025

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Steven *********

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Can you apply for a retirement visa with multiple entries once you turn 50 and already in Thailand on 60 days visa free ??

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Yes, you can apply for a 90-day Non-O visa in Thailand once you turn 50, even if you initially entered on a 60-day visa-free exemption. However, you must meet certain requirements, including proving financial stability with 800,000 THB in a Thai bank account for at least two months. If you wish to remain in Thailand after the initial period, you will need to apply for a re-entry permit, which can be either single or multiple entries. It's essential to understand that the process may also require showing documentation and potentially visiting the immigration office for specific requirements.

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Ar *******

How much is the 90 day non o visa if applying in uk ? Is the application onerous for those of us not so good with IT ?

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@Steven ********

chill !! Lol very sensitive

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Richard ******

"non-im. O visa.

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Richard ******

no. you need to apply for a retirement extension on a '

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Nongnuch ********

@Steven ********

for the application to the "change of visa type" from a 60-days visa exempt entry to the initial 90-days Non-Imm-O retirement visa, you need to show a minimum of 800,000 THB sitting in your Thai bank account. If you don't have a Thai bank account yet, you won't be doing anything, as on a visa-exempt entry or any touristicentry, you cannot get a Thai bank account opened any more. You would need to enter Thailand on a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, aquired in your home country or from anywhere else in the World outside of Thailand, to be able to get a Thai bank account opened

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Max *************

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There's no "change of visa" from a 60 days visa exempt. That's when changing from a 60 days tourist visa to a 90 days Non-immigrant O via the form TM86. TM87 is the form when arriving on a visa exempt.

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Nongnuch ********

@Max ************

wrong. You can change from EITHER the visa-exempt entry OR the 60-days tourist visa, to a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa . . . . this is the police order, it used to be 30 days visa-exempt and now it is 60 days,they just haven't altered the text

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Max *************

@Nongnuch *******

Yes,but the change from a visa exempt to a 90 days Non-immigrant O is NOT a change of visa. Read my previous comment again and maybe you'll understand.Your screenshot shows exactly what I said. How hard can it be to understand simple English?

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Nongnuch ********

@Max ************

. . WATCH your Terminology! Actually, a single entry 60-days Tourist Visa becomes invalid when you enter Thailand. The visa is only good for ONE (single) entry. After having entered Thailand, you are inside Thailand on a 60-days stay permit, not "on a visa". Immigration doesn't "change the visa", because you don't have a tourist visa any more. Actually, they are just moving your 60-days stay permit status onto a new "visa level" - onto a 90-days stay permit. . . Immigration in their bad English call everything and your grandmother a "visa", which is technically wrong

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Max *************

@Nongnuch *******

Why don't you read your own screenshot? A visa exempt is not a visa,hence the name visa exempt. But a 60-days tourist visa is,and the 90 days Non-immigrant O is a visa. That's why it's called "Change of Visa" at immigration and the need for the TM86. The TM87 is the form when going for a 90 days Non-immigrant O when on a visa exempt BUT it's not a change of visa! Why do you argue about stuff you obviously don't understand?

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Nongnuch ********

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the whole process is only possible if you accept the overall wrong wording of Thai Immigration. . . . . „But a 60-days tourist visa and the 90 days Non-immigrant O are a visa. That's why it's called "Change of Visa" at immigration”

That’s where you fail!

After you entered Thailand, you have no more visa.

That’s why Immigration will just “change” your 60-days stay permit status to a “90-days Non-Imm-O visa”

They don’t change from a visa to another visa. They just change your stay permit status.

And since for Thai Immigration and their bad and wrong English, there is no difference between a visa and a stay permit, they confuse people like you.

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Nongnuch ********

@Max ************

read again: after you entered Thailand on a tourist visa, you have no visa any more. The visa becomes invalid (USED) upon entry. So pray tell me, how would Immigration be able to change your visa type, since you don't even have a visa any more ?

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Nongnuch ********

@Max ************

Immigration in their wrong English call a stay permit a "visa". They even tell you that you got a 60-days visa after you have entered visa-exempt. You can DEFINITELY apply for the "change of visa type" from a visa-exempt entry to a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa. Click on number 9 on the Website of Thai Immigration to find my interpretation confirmed

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@Steven ********

you normally buy a re-entry permit (your choice if single or multi) for the 1-year extension as soon as the extension gets issued, on the same day. You don't need a re-entry permit for the initial 90-days stay permit out of a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, except if you wish to exit and re-enter Thailand during the 90-days stay permit period

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Stephen ********

Go see Anna’s visa, they have all the answers for you.

Look up her Facebook page.

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Brandon ************

You can apply for a 90 day non-O visa if you meet the requirements of your immigration office. Go there and ask them for the list. Hopefully you already have a Thai bank account since financial proof is one of the requirements. Primarily 800,000 in your Thai bank account that shows as an international transfer and has been in the account for 2 full months. The visa will have zero entries, but you can apply for a re-entry permit, single or multiple. This does make it a multiple entry visa though.

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Nongnuch ********

@Brandon ***********

sorry but there is no 2-months seasoning required for the initial Non-Imm-O visa application on Immigration (except in Pattaya, Khon Kaen and Surat Thani). The 2-months seasoning is needed when applying for the 1-year extension

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Todd *******

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nongkhai immigration told me and gave me a document to read that I can only get a non o visa outside Thailand I have had 800k in my kasikorn account for 6 months now will be coming back from UK in October

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