Can you apply for a retirement visa in Thailand while on a tourist visa?

With an agent it is simple, but you must pay for it

Going on a interview this month about PR visa i don't know if it succeed or not they say it very hard to get but we will see.

It can be done but only using an agent because of the bank account.

This is our current package for this, and it can be done in 1 day or 2-3 weeks.

Contact this FB page you have posted in

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If you can’t be bothered leaving Thailand and doing it properly

Yes i did. 2 years ago. Contact Thai Visa centre! Excellent service! I'm on my second retirement visa.

GorgeousJackfruit5815 you have not told us your passport country, so we do not know if your embassy in Bangkok is still issuing income affidavits, or not. As this is IMPORTANT if you want a positive and 100% correct reply

You can definitely get a conversion from a touristic entry, for a fee of 2000 THB, to an initial 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa on Immigration inside Thailand without the need of 800,000 THB sitting in an already existing Thai bank account.

It is possible if (!) your embassy in Bangkok is still issuing an income affidavit, confirming you make more than monthly 65,000 THB of income.

Using the income affidavit renders superfluous the need having to get a bank account opened, which is not possible on a touristic entry.

You would need a rental contract of a minimum of three months on most Immigration offices.

Then armed with the initial 90-days visa, you could get a Thai bank account opened.

You can apply for the one-year extension of stay before the 90-days out of the initial Non-Imm-O visa expire. You would again need another income affidavit from your embassy. The fee of this application is 1900 THB.

*** However, if your embassy isn't issuing an income affidavit anymore, then only two options are doable:

EITHER

use an agent and buy the "full package" (costs up from 45,000 THB to 80,000 THB) the "full package" meaning the opening of a bank account, initial 90-days Non-O visa and subsequent 12-months extension.

OR

apply for the Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa outside of Thailand, enter, open the bank account ( you can do it all by yourself) transfer your own funds of a minimum of 800,000 THB, and as soon as the deposit has matured in your account for two months, apply for the 1-year extension of the stay permit based on retirement, for a fee of 1900 Baht.

Go see a agent

Speak to an agent.

No

The option of applying for a nonO inside thailand with a tourist visa is only open to those who already have a thai bank acct if doing it by yourself....another option is agent (costly)

They would never know if you pay taxes or not and you won’t be able to open a bank account on a TV just apply for the non-o before you come

You can't open a bank account on a tourist visa so your only options are to leave to a nearby country to apply for a 90 day Non-O visa, return to Thailand and open the bank account and apply for a 12 month extension of stay or use an agent