What are the best visa options for a 6-month stay in Thailand for someone over 50?

Tourist Visa ME how does it work

A multi entry Tourist Visa has a validity for use for an unlimited number of entries (“multiple entry”)

The 6 months visa validity starts on the day the visa is issued. Thus, if you enter Thailand 9 days after it has been issued, you lose 9 days of the total of the 6 months visa validity.

Upon each entry, you will get stamped in for a 60-days stay permit

On each and every 60 days stay permit, you can apply for a 30-days touristic extension of the stay permit, for 1900.- THB, on Immigration.

If you take the 30-days extension, you must be aware that before the 90th day expires, you need to exit Thailand.

With the next entry, you will activate another 60-days stay permit

Which you also can extend for 30 more days.

To get the maximum number of days out of this visa, you should therefore enter Thailand as close as you can, to the date of issue

If you exit and re-enter Thailand before the visa validity expires (or any day before this date) you will get stamped in for 60 days for the last time.

You can then, with some luck, still get another 30 days extension of this last 60-days stay permit.

By this method, you can theoretically get almost 9 months of stay in Thailand out of the multi entry tourist visa

Go talk to Mark at One stop visa in Pattaya on Soi 6 and skip the bs

Go to Cambodia or Vietnam, Thailand no longer want western money

DTV visa only requires you to have $15,000 US dollars in the bank. You can stay for six months at a time and it lasts for five years

You haven’t told us anything. DO you want to retire in Thailand or just stay for 6 months ?And where are you now ? IN Thailand or in your home country ?

F**k Bangkok bank

@Max ******

Non O visa based on retirement. Once the extension is sorted open an account with a different bank and close Bangkok bank

Just get a multiple entry tourist visa and plan for some weekend trips elsewhere, since you'll be leaving every 60 days unless you want to extend it to 90 days per arrival.

Of course the bank want u put money in for 6 mth so they can freeze it if you can't get a visa and have leave county how u can get it reopened again they will keep it and might even shutdown it

Multiple entry tourist visa ,up to 9 months .

Must apply out of thai

I have used it for years ...no money in thsi bank

Not difficult

There is a six month tourist visa I’m on it you must leave the every 60 days though