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How can I get help with my retirement visa in Thailand?

Rico ********
asked Dec 25, 2025
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I search somebody to help me for retirement visa !!! To complicated now !!!
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The original poster seeks help with the complexities of applying for a retirement visa in Thailand. Community responses suggest using various visa agencies like Thai Visa Centre and Siam Legal for assistance. Many commenters mention that hiring an agent can save time and stress, while some advise that the process can be manageable without help. It's emphasized that understanding the financial requirements, such as having a certain minimum amount in a Thai bank account or proof of income, is crucial. Furthermore, the TM30 registration process was highlighted as an important step upon arrival in Thailand.
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Ken **********
Ken **********
If you have 90,000 Thai Bht you can get a retirement visa or if you have a house in Thailand, you can use that as collateral. If you are only visiting Thailand you need a Tdac to enter which you do online. When I was there, yhe embassy sent me an email asking if I wanted to extend my stay and if so contact them for a visa.
Lhiling ********************
Lhiling ********************
Ask grace Thai visa center
Nigel **************
Nigel **************
Ask for Grace
Nigel **************
Nigel **************
Robert *********
Robert *********
Key Visa, excellent service and know what they are doing.

MERRY CHRISTMAS KEY VISA 🎄🎅
Colin *********
Colin *********
Do it legally. It’s not a problem
Alan **********
Alan **********
Sorry, but when you fail to tell us something so basic as to what country you’re coming from, it’s too complicated to help you.
John ********
John ********
Mots
Guido ************
Guido ************
@One ***************
great and reliable service
Rico ********
Rico ********
OP
*****
thb!!!!!!!
Rico ********
Rico ********
OP
Ok i Will try
Greg ***********
Greg ***********
@Rico *******
I already send you a detailled list of how you can proceed to do everything by yourself. . . copy the text, paste it into your notices. And read it for repeated times until you have understood it 😄
Greg ***********
Greg ***********
@Rico *******
you can do it by yourself, enter on a 90-days Non-Imm-O visa, pay 5000 THB bank account opening with the help of an agent, transfer 800,000 THB , after 2 months apply for the 1-year extension for 1900 Baht fee and buy a re-entry permit for 1000 Baht
Ossie *********
Ossie *********
Thaivisacentre.com they will sort you out for a small charge
Anthony ******************
Anthony ******************
Location?
Guy *********
Guy *********
It's easy..agent
Nigel **************
Nigel **************
Ask for Grace
Nigel **************
Nigel **************
Bernhard ***********
Bernhard ***********
Go to Philippines much better they speak English
Fra *****
Fra *****
You can easy do by yourself
John ******
John ******
What area are you in would help for agent
David ********
David ********
Manereet agency pattaya
Phyf ****
Phyf ****
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Jodie **********
Jodie **********
Darcy ************
Darcy ************
@AllSabaai *****
is helpful and capable
Jean ********
Jean ********
Go to immigration take the papers and there are people who help you.
Robert ******
Robert ******
It’s not that hard. The hardest part is getting the documents you need to prove you’re worthy of a Thai Retirement Visa to the BOI. From the day I started to the day we got our visas was about three months.
Marianne ********
Marianne ********
@Robert *****
So not a regular Non-O based on retirement?

Why is the BOI involved with yours?
Robert ******
Robert ******
@Marianne *******
10 LTR Visa
Robert ******
Robert ******
@Marianne *******
Best of luck with your visa! Merry Christmas!
Marianne ********
Marianne ********
@Robert *****
Gotcha.

The regular one is far easier to get, but must be extended yearly.

Does not involve BOI though.
Peter *********
Peter *********
Contact Thailand Visa centre! No others. And ingnor other here who say. Oh do it yourself! Ignore them.
Olivier **********
Olivier **********
Contact thai visa center
James **********
James **********
Only complicated if you don’t meet the requirements
Nongnuch ********
Nongnuch ********
After having entered Thailand, you need to get registered in your accommodation per TM30 within 24 hours of arrival in the premises. If you rent or live in a friend’s accommodation, the landlord or the friend has to register you.

Immigration will only service you if you are properly registered in your accommodation by the TM30.

Every landlord, friend or hotel needs to register you within 24 hours of your arrival in the premises. While hotels do this automatically online, many landlords and friends are not aware of this or haven’t registered their house or rooms in the system. It is your responsibility to ensure that you get properly TM30 registered by your landlord or the hotel.

Within this 90-days stay permit period, you have plenty of time to arrange for the application to the “1-year extended stay permit based on retirement” (which people wrongly refer to as a “retirement visa”- actually, this thing is not a visa. It is an extended stay permit)

In order to apply for the “90-days single entry Non-Imm-O retirement visa” through the online E-visa system at the Royal Thai Embassy of your home country, you can use the proof of income of a monthly minimum of equivalent of 65,000 THB, by using your original pension statements or other income documentation.

Or you use a deposit of a minimum of 800,000 THB or the equivalent in your home country currency, or on your home bank account, or on a Thai bank, or just anywhere in the World – as long as the account is in your sole name

However, for the application inside Thailand for the “1-year extension of stay permit” out of the 90-days Non-Imm-O retirement visa, if you are a citizen of a country, whose embassy in Thailand does not issue the “income affidavit” any more (which are the embassies of the USA, UK and Australia, Norway and Canada - AFAIK)

you would need proof by a “12 months bank statement”, showing that for the past 12 months, you have been transferring from abroad to your Thai bank account, month for month, not missing one single month, a minimum of 65,000 THB. The transfers must be coded in your bankbook as foreign transfers coming in from abroad

If your embassy still issues a legalized affidavit of income, you can use this method for the financial proof, as long as you can show a monthly income or pension of a minimum of 65,000 THB.

Some Immigrations have started to require that you at least have a Thai bank account and SOME money gets transferred into it from abroad – and they might also ask you for the source of the income.

For above mentioned citizens, in the first year there is no other way around than depositing a minimum of 800,000 THB in your Thai bank account and use this deposit for the financial proof.

For the application to the “one year extension of stay permit based on being over 50/retired” you need to show a minimum of 800,000 THB in your account, and on the day you apply, the funds must have been sitting in the account for a minimum of 2 months, and you got the “bank letter of guarantee” that confirms this.

NOTE: It is income method OR deposit method.

And there is a third method, called the “combination method”:

A combination, a mix of income and deposit.

Some immigrations don’t allow the combination method in the first year. And some Immigration want the deposit part to exceed 400,000 THB. The combination method means that the sum of the deposit AND the monthly income exceeds 800,000 THB in one year.

But let’s continue with the “normal method” (visa issued in your home country, followed by the application to the Extension inside Thailand):

On the day of application to the 1-year extension, the 800,000 THB must have “seasoned” in your account for two months, and this has to be proven with the “bank letter of guarantee” (rab roong thanakan).

What else do you need on Immigration?

*** Immigration might ask you to present your updated bankbook, and a receipt of a small sum withdrawal at an ATM of the same day.

*** a copy (and original) of your passport detail page signed in blue ink

*** a copy (and original) of the .pdf visa document signed in blue ink

*** a copy (and original) of the printed TDAC (if applicable) signed in blue ink

*** 1900 THB in cash

*** the TM7 form you can fill out at the Immigration

*** Immigration will ask you to sing several “exclusion of responsibility” forms (STM)

You should visit Immigration asap after you entered and ask them for the handout list of requirements. Some Immigrations use an individual approach to the official rules.

After been issued the “1-year Extension of Stay”, the 800,000 THB need to remain in the account for 3 more months. After these 3 months, the deposit shall never go under 400,000 THB. And before your application for the next “1-year Extension of Stay”, a minimum of 800,000 THB must have seasoned in the account for two months, again

When you get issued the “1-year extension of stay”, you should always buy a re-entry permit for it.

A re-entry permit will keep your 1-year stay permit alive in case you exit Thailand before the expiry of the 1-year stay permit.

A single re-entry permit is 1000 THB on Immigration. A multi re-entry is 3800 THB.

With a multi re-entry permit, you can exit and re-enter as many times as you wish during the whole 1-year stay permit period.

Good Luck and a great time in Thailand
Bill *********
Bill *********
@Nongnuch *******
Reading thru half of this should easily convince you to get an agent!
Greg *********
Greg *********
@Bill ********
I was lost right after “ having entered Thailand “ 😂
Nongnuch ********
Nongnuch ********
@Greg ********
having entered Thailand applies to EVERY foreigner, regardless if you enter on visa-exempt, on a tourist visa or on a Non-Imm visa type. . . READ what follows this sentence! First thing first you need to get TM30 registered
Brenton ******
Brenton ******
@Nongnuch *******
thanks. Great advise.
Roy *******
Roy *******
Following
Simon *********
Simon *********
Nan Services
David *******
David *******
Highly recommend Motts services

They will do everything for you very reasonable rate
Rico ********
Rico ********
OP
I stay in huahin
Ove ********************
Ove ********************
No need for any agent.

Make you 2 Photoshop, dame like in Uour passform. Find You the nearest Thai Emigration Office. I promise they are just

Lively. There is new rules because of scammers that Thailand wsnt to get red of.

They trest everybody nice and correct

No need for any agent.
Gamalier ********
Gamalier ********
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Greg *********
Greg *********
Agent
Gayan **********
Gayan **********
Use issacompass. Don't get coauch scammers
Marianne ********
Marianne ********
Which part is too complicated?
Rico ********
Rico ********
OP
@Marianne *******
i need to go outside of thailand for a non 0 visa
Marianne ********
Marianne ********
@Rico *******
Only if you don't have a Thai bank account.

But getting the Non-O from outside of Thailand is easy.

Just instead of documenting your finances with a statements from a Thai bank account, you can use statements from your bank account back home.

I personally went to Laos to get it done, and while their official processing time is 5-10 days, I got mine the evening after I applied and paid.
G ***************
G ***************
Siam-Legal.Com
OZ ******
OZ ******
If you want to use agent 100% go to thai visa centre in bangkok
David **********
David **********
why use an agent
David **********
David **********
just kill half your brain cells
David **********
David **********
fuck off
Doug *******
Doug *******
@David *********
Absolutely non of your business
David **********
David **********
lazy
Jason *****************
Jason *****************
@David *********
no money no honey
David **********
David **********
I've been doing it for over 22 months and it is straightforward and easy
David ********
David ********
@David *********
you win the prize, you’re so smart, wish I could be as smart as you. 🏆
Peter *********
Peter *********
@David *********
he wants to !!
Bill *********
Bill *********
@David *********
Saves considerable time and stress. I use an agent for anything immigration related.
William ****************
William ****************
Nan services...Pattaya...she is very good..say Robbie sent you.get small discount
Daniel ******
Daniel ******
@William ***************
Yes. She is excellent. She did all visa for me in 7 hours (11:00am-7:00 pm). Reasonable charge.
Luke *********
Luke *********
Agent
Alan ******
Alan ******
Not complicated at all, just find a agent
David *******
David *******
Siam Legal are great
Ant ***********
Ant ***********
Are you in Thailand ?

What area ?
Ian ********
Ian ********
If you explain which parts are too complicated for you then someone can help you on here .In others words please elaborate
Peter *********
Peter *********
@Ian *******
its difficult depending on circumstances! He needs a agent !
David ********
David ********
@Peter ********
Hi Pete How complicated is it to do it yourself and do you do it or Go to an Agency.
Peter *********
Peter *********
@David *******
its simple. Many people prefer a agent. I always use an agent. Its my preference ! Got it !
Matthew *********
Matthew *********
Both of these agency are great
Joe ******
Joe ******
Beyond any doubt:

Grace at
@THAI *****************************
Top agency at a reasonable price.
Graeme ********
Graeme ********
@Joe *****
what kind of price they charging for non oa ret visa , bank account ,drivers licenses for scooter and car , many thanks
Graeme ********
Graeme ********
That’s put my mind at rest I’ve got a non o visa and land in Thailand on the
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/26 for 3 months , I was led to believe 🤷‍♀️I needed to get the non oa visa when I was in Thailand, open bank account and transfer the funds into it , then leave in for 2 months get the paperwork from the bank to show sufficient funds etc and get the next 12 months stay visa (retirement)
Greg ***********
Greg ***********
@Graeme *******
you can't get a Non-O/A visa inside Thailand
Greg ***********
Greg ***********
@Graeme *******
as a U.K.citizen, you need to get a Thai bank account opened as soon as you have entered Thailand, because if you want to get a one-year stay permit, you need - at least in the first year - a minimum of 800,000 THB in your Thai bank account, on the days you apply for the one-year extension of the stay permit, the money must have been in your bank account for 2 months, you need to prove it with the bank letter of your Thai bank . . . you must undertand the difference between a visa and a stay permit. For Thai Immigration it is the same thing, but this is technically wrong , it's just very bad English
Greg ***********
Greg ***********
@Graeme *******
you cannot apply for a Non-Imm-OA visa inside Thailand. You need to apply for this visa type in the country of your residence. If you are on a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, you will receive a 90 days stay permit upon entry, the visa will become "used" and void. If you fulfill the requirements, you can apply for the 1-year extension of the stay permit up from 30 days before that 90-days stay permit expires
Graeme ********
Graeme ********
@Greg **********
l have a non o visa now and valid for when i arrive in Thailand on the
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/26 which I thought you needed so when I am in Thailand I apply for the non oa visa once in Thailand
Graeme ********
Graeme ********
@Joe *****
Cheers will do 👍
Joe ******
Joe ******
@Graeme *******
Check with them directly as it depends on your circumstances.

I saw they had some special offer lately so send them a message or e-mail with your requirements:

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Christopher ******
Christopher ******
@Joe *****
i second that
Michael ********
Michael ********
Thai visa center
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Chang ******
Chang ******
@Michael *******
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