What are the best visa options for moving to Thailand with a dog while selling my home in the UK?

Don’t travel to Thailand (or most countries) on a one way ticket. You risk being denied entry. Have an onward ticket.

Just do retirement visa here on the spot! The easiest and cheapest! Good luck

Do not sell your property. See if you can ask an agent to rent it out for you and use the rental and pension to fund your finances over here. Get a multiple entry visa as it will give you up to 9 months to sort out things over here for you before you get a retirement visa. If you do want to sell your property then this is not the time to do it. Sell when interest rate is low and people begging to buy it. If i were you, I would charge a little less for rent so you can have a quality tenant to take care of your place. Worst case scenario is that you will have a place to live when you want to come back to the UK.

Get the retirement visa. Easier and cheaper in the long run

I would think again about selling a property in the UK to pay for a visa in Thailand. Especially as you can achieve the same period of time in Thailand for £42 per year.

If you don't have the money at the moment for the 800,000 baht Thais bank deposit, get a loan in the UK until you sell the property. Better still wait a few months. Good luck with the sale.

As for dog contact relo4paws for advice and assistance in coming in country

Rent a long term property, to get a feel that the decision you made is the correct one, then look to buy. Not forgetting Thai law on owning property. Ex pats can give sound advice of there own experience

I would not come to.Thailand without health insurance...try get covered direct with.a Thai insurer.

Brandon has given good advice.

I'd recommend the retirement visa over elite visa. If the whole process is a bit complicated for you, then just find an agent to sort it out. They cost more (still significantly less than elite visa), but they'll take care of it all for you. Dealing with immigration seems hard, but once you've done it once it's pretty easy the next time round

To answer your first question:

Come with a single entry tourist visa from the Thai embassy in London. This will give you 60 days when you arrive and you can apply for a 30 day extension one time. That's 90 days.

OR apply for a Multiple-Entry tourist visa from the Thai embassy before you come. This is valid for 6 months from the time it is issued, and will give you 60 days every time you enter Thailand within those 6 months. That means you can do 60+30, do a quick border bounce or take a short trip to a nearby country for fun and return, 60+30, and then right before the visa expires around the 6 month mark, do a final border bounce for another 60+30. I can't imagine 9 months isn't enough time for you to resolve what you are waiting for.

Once the money is settled you can then convert to the non-O visa within Thailand once you have 800,000 baht in a Thai bank account. Getting the other spouse on a trailing visa for that is a little bit more complicated unfortunately as it will involve you having to leave Thailand again and apply for the non-O trailing spouse visa from a nearby consulate. Or you can each get 800,000 in a Thai bank account and then you can both apply for the non-O visa directly from within the country.

I'm not sure of your finances but you can also look into one of the LTR visas and see if you will qualify for that. It's a 10 year visa and if you qualify it will make everything easy for you.



Your airline is the only one who will care if you have a one way ticket, so ask them their policy. If they want to see a flight out of Thailand then google "onward travel ticket" and you can rent a plane ticket to use when you checkin for your flight to Thailand.

You'd probably need to use this as well if you wanted to apply for the Multiple Entry Tourist Visa since for that application you need to show a flight to Thailand, a flight out of Thailand within 60 days, and another flight back to Thailand.