How can I obtain a retirement visa to move to Thailand?

Come on a tourist visa and then extend the visa while here. Much easier and does not require the health insurance that you are required to buy if you apply out of Thailand

Most important is to be able to prove financial requirements before application. There is a check list of all.paperwork needed on a video

Embassy in your country—make sure you have the 800 000baht on hand

Get non O 90 day visa. Open up account with 800k baht right away. After it remains in Thai bank 60 days ( untouched). Start getting ready to apply for your EOS Based on retirement. You can go to immigration office in the province you will be staying and get your list of required documents needed in your province. I believe you can apply 15 days before your visa expires. Bring passport photos and the documents needed and 1900 baht along with a trip to the bank for statement from bank certifying your money in the bank and a passbook update. Important DO NOT LET YOUR ACCOUNT DROP BELOW 800K OTHERWISE IT RESETS THE WHOLE PROCESS TO THE DAY THE ACCOUNT REACHES 800K. I made that mistake.

The Thai embassy in your country

Immigration dououo

Do some homework in your own country and your local Thai Embassy

If your pension is good enough go to immigration fill in the papers 1900 baht and ok

Don't waste any of your time faffing about and getting angry. Let THAI VISA CENTRE do it all for you - you don't need medical, you don't need TM whatever it is, you don't even need 800,000b or a big pension - they will do all that quicker and cheaper than any of the other greedy agents. My retirement visa with no money 14,000b 😘. Please mention my name if you contact them thanks....

We are talking about the most common and persisting misunderstandings regarding the rules that come with applying for the “retirement visa” and the subsequent “one-year extension of stay permit based on retirement”

The best way is to show up in Thailand on a “90-days single entry Non-Imm-O Retirement/over 50 visa” as it will get you a 90-days stay permit upon entering Thailand.

Entering with this visa you can get a “certificate of residency” from Immigration and you can open a Thai bank account.

Within this 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 65,000 THB, by using your original pension 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 it 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 USA, UK and Australia)

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 a minimum of 65,000 THB, consecutively month for month

If your embassy still issues an affidavit of income, you can use this method for the financial proof, which needs a monthly income or pension of a minimum of 65,000 THB

For British, Australian and U.S. 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 which is required for the application to the “one year extension of stay permit based on being over 50/retired”

The alternative would be, if you don’t have that kind of money or are not willing to deposit 800,000 THB in your Thai Bank account, paying an agent a hefty sum (mostly in the range of 30-40,000 THB) to “arrange” the requirements

The downside is, you will get stuck with the agent for a while. You will need an agent to fix your 800k issue. You will be trapped in the agent’s hamster wheel.

To qualify you will need the 800k fronted by the agent the first year and simultaneously deposit 65k per month for 12 months without fail, to qualify the 2nd year for income method. Yet this is not enough to enable you to escape the hamster wheel.

If you use an agent you will not qualify for the 2nd year as you did not have the money in the first year . . . . So will need the agent bribe Immigration again and again.

NOTE: It is income method OR deposit method.

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

A combination 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).

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

Every landlord or hotel needs to register you within 24 hours of your arrival in the premises. While hotels do this automatically online, many landlords 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.

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 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.

ATTENTION:

There is another road to the “1-year ‘Extension of Stay based on retirement”. It is called “change of visa type” and can be done on the Immigration in Thailand.

You can arrive visa-exempt or on a 60 days single-entry Tourist Visa, you will get stamped in for a 60 days stay permit.

On a tourist visa, it is from very difficult up to impossible, to open a Thai bank account. You are advised to use an agent to help you with opening a bank account. Some agents will not offer this service

This must have been organized during a previous holiday, or you need to open a bank account ASAP, and the money must get transferred from your abroad account onto you Thai bank account ASAP

You visit Immigration and show them the bankbook with proof you got 800,000 THB in sitting in your bank account, and a proof that this money came from abroad.

You apply for the “change of visa type” from the touristic entry to a “90-days Non-Imm-O retirement visa”

To be allowed to apply for the “change”, you need a minimum of 15 days left on your entry stamp. And you need to show a rental contract, at least on most Immigrations

They will issue the visa for 14 days “under consideration”

After this period, you pick up the 90-days Non-Imm-O visa stay permit stamp

ATTENTION: if you plan to reside around Pattaya and use the Jomtien Immigration, you should be aware that they make up their own rule, which differs from the official police order.

Jomtien Immigration requires a 2-months (!!) seasoning for the application to the initial 90-days Non-Imm-O visa! That makes the application on the Jomtien Immigration a classic CATCH22 issue, which you better avoid

That's why it is always better to apply for the 90-days Non-O retirement visa in the e-visa online system in your home country before flying to Thailand. This visa also helps in opening a bank account in the first week after arrival, and then 60 days after your 800,000 THB deposit has been transferred into the account, the money will have seasoned for 2 months and you can directly apply for the 1-year Extension of Stay

From up to 30 days (in some places 45 days) before the 90-days stay permit expires, you can apply to the “1-year extension of stay based on retirement”

The financial requirements for this application are the same as explained above.

You can find the requirements when you google for “change of visa type immigration Thailand” and click on the number 9 in the list

Good Luck and a great time in Thailand

Email the nearest embassy and ask for a list of requirements and a list of necessary documents.

Study the requirements online, then get your act together and actually travel here to Thailand and go to an agent to help you get a Non-Immigrant "O" (not an OA!) visa. The "retirement visa" is the colloquial term for the 1-year extension of the non-O visa for retirement purposes. Some will say that you should not use an agent and should do it on your own, but in all reality—if you have to ask the question that you just posted, you need an agent and will not be able to do it yourself.

I find that the hardest part by far for people is actually conquering their fears and acting with firm resolve to leave their country and come here. And it isn't easy... you have to sell a lot of your stuff, ship the rest here, deal with family and friends who think you're nuts, and generally uproot yourself in a very dramatic way. Not everyone can do it.

If you have 0 thb and monthly income you can applying yourself .

Save money .look immigration web ,it's

Easy process .

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Email your nearest Thai embassy,then phone them

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The is no retirement visa....however...you can get an o or oa visa ...and get an extension of stay...

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Start with the application to the online e-visa of the Royal Thai Embassy in your home country

I did everything after I moved here .. much easier well it's still a pain in the butt but you don't have to have medical and don't need to give them a report from your country to check you out for criminal activity when applying from within Thailand.

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You apply online through the Thai embassy that serves your area.

Start with the immigration website