Should I choose the DTV visa or the Thai Elite visa?

What's elite!

LTR is just advantageous, if you're in that category of income or investment potential, but it takes longer.

If money is no object Elite.

It took me 5 weeks in the Philippines to get dtv. Spent like 6k there

DTV is not that hard, the elite visa don't give enough value for the price. If elite started 5k$/5years I will probably take it but not 15k$

Everyone saying DTV, not everyone meets the requirements for a DTV and how long do you think they are going to keep accepting cooking classes or Muay Thai as a reason.

Elite

Some people have 25k just for their spending funds for the month separate from investments. If that's you then go for elite. I burnt 30 days in Vietnam spent 30k on hotel and food there and got rejected for the DTV even though all documents were accurate. Should have just taken elite.

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Elite has been devalued almost entirely with the DTV so freely available and still widely accepted by immigration. The real value play is the LTR.

If you think about 5 Years, go for the much cheaper DTV, but without possible to open a bank account in Thailand

Pro list for Privilege bronze card:

- you can stay 365 days and then extend inside the country. Only useful for people who never leave during the year Thailand

- you can get a bank account

- fast track at airport

- no questions at immigration

Con list for Privilege bronze card

- the very high price

- you can't work in Thailand. If you wanna start a business some day you need to cancel the Privilege visa

- you still pay the same tax like with DTV

- the are allowed to reduce some perks or raise prises for services

- still need to do the 90day report

I recommend go for DTV and if it still bothers you after a while you still can cancel it and go for privilege card.

depends if you need a thai bank account

You must be stupid rich if you're considering the elite. In that case, go for the elite. What's an extra 650k baht for you...

If you have the money and it doesn’t bother you spending where it really isn’t needed, go for it. There are some small perks for sure.

Also… if you are that rich, can I have a couple thousand £ please 😁

If you don’t need to worry about money, then buy the Elite. No doubt. But a better option might be the LTR if money really isn’t an issue.

Elite is so easy and then you have so many benefits but , if you have money

If you have the money just get the elite visa,

I mean. You can just buy a dtv from an agent if you’re worried about hassle. $2k

If you prefer spend 25k$ than loose day to get and send some document , then go elite

I think DTV is far superior in terms of value for money. I find no hassle with the DTV, simply leave and re-enter get a 6-month stamp, rinse and repeat for 5 years or maybe more.

Dude the extra money is like 100x the cost of the DTV visa. Application for DTV is not that hard, if you really want to avoid a hassle, you can pay some agency to do DTV for you it still will be 50x cheaper then Elite

Thai Elite is worthless, DTV or LTR.