What are the best long-term visa options for a US Army veteran on VA disability income in Thailand?

You only have 3 options at the moment:

- student

- dtv

- elite

Good luck!

DTV

I’m retired marine at 100%. My wife and I got the Thai Elite visa. Expensive, but it saves you so much time and hassle. DTV’s too sketch. Thai Elite gets you a Thai bank account, drivers license, I was at TE immigration today and it took without exaggeration, 2 minutes and I was back on the scooter. Fast pass at airports and airport lounges. And they just added a 4th tier that’s even less expensive at ฿650k for 5 years. We don’t need to leave the county and we can enter and exit as many times as we want. Plus there’s a booklet of perks from vacations, medical, vision, dental, event tickets, drivers. The list goes on.

Honestly i would get a DTV there are several types available. I am a disabled vet and work remotely part of the year in thailand and in office in Japan. It is great 5 years long easy qualifications. Have to leave every 180 days which really is that big of a deal. Cheap flights to Vietnam, cambodia, laos. Just be gone one day. So people dont like it because you cant get a local bank account. I have 3 bank accounts because of my wife (thai) but i never use them. I use my US account or my account in Dubai. Yes i pay a little more of ATM fees but i can live with it.

100% vet here - i actually did education visa conversion in country from visa exempt - i enrolled in courses - its 1 year visa they give you to study - stamp you get is for 3 months that you extend for 1900 baht - for that year - along with 90 day report. - im 41 as well not 50 - I elected not to go with the DTV for now

I just did it, but you need remote employment. They won’t let you do it with JUST the VA payments alone. Feel free to dm for more information and how to get around

Just use your GI bill and go to school in Thailand “education visa “

I'm a retired veteran.

DTV for now bro. I assume you are under 45 years old. Once you turn 50 better options pop up.

Elite visa 5-20 years

Non-O marriage basically lifetime renewal

Non-O WP

Ed visa 1-4 years

Ed visa plus 4-5 years

DTV workcation 5 years

SETV 60 days

METV 6 months 9 months with a strategic border bounce in the last 2 days

LTR 10 years

But 100% is more per month

And just because you have 100% you need to go all in for SMC’s to boost that monthly take home way way up..100% is rookie numbers in this racket

It all depends on how old you are, and how big your bank account is.