Do you need to be on a business visa for three years to apply for a permanent resident visa in Thailand?

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Mar 28, 2018

7 years ago

ORIGINAL POSTER

I am just looking at the conditions of a 'permanent Resident Visa'. One condition is that you must hand in 3 years worth of tax statements. 

So is the inference that you must be on a business visa for three years in Thailand to even think about the permanent resident visa?

I'd love some clarification if you can shine a light!

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TLDR : Answer Summary

To apply for a Permanent Resident Visa in Thailand, you need to have three consecutive years of extensions of stay based on either employment or marriage, not just a business visa. This means staying legally in Thailand for three years, along with maintaining a minimum salary of 80,000 baht per month or having a capital of 10 million baht in a limited company as a shareholder. Language proficiency is not required for the permanent residency application, though it may be a factor for Thai nationality.

Rachel ********

ORIGINAL POSTER

Fantastic Tod! Just what I needed. Cheers for that 🙂

7 years ago

Tod *********

@Dan***

, and

@Dus***

, you don't even really need good thai when you go for thai nationality either.

The most you can get is 15 points for your thai (and that's if you can sing the 32 second song that plays at 8 and 6).

Most people have enough points to qualify that their thai skills are not needed at all it hit the minimum. And it doesn't count against you in the least if you hit the points and suck at thai. You just need so many overall points to get citizenship from the different categories.

A friend of mine who's had permanent residence for years here finally got thai citizenship and he can barely string 6 words of thai together. :O

7 years ago

Daniel ************

@Dustin ******

nope not needed - that when u go for thai nationality

7 years ago

Dustin *******

I also believe you have to be pretty fluent in your Thai language ability. I am not questioning yours just letting you know I recall reading that at some point.

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Tod *********

While I usually don't recommend the thai visa forum :O this is a good (albeit oh-so long) article about it. Read how they went about it, then go to the end and read back to see the recent posts by people .

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7 years ago

Rachel ********

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ok, you have answered my question. I appreciate that so much! Sorry, I forgot the search function! I really appreciate the info. Have a great day!

7 years ago

Lloyd ********

3 years of continuous extensions of stay based on employment or marriage AND working.

7 years ago

Daniel ************

you can find some posts to this topic already - but u need 3 years consecutive extensions (not visa), min 80k salary for 3 years or 10 mio in capital for a ltd that u are shareholder.

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