What are the costs associated with using a visa agent for retirement visas in Thailand?

It really depends on which services you are requesting.

If it’s only a standard one-year extension, then yes, that price would be far too high. Our current fee for a yearly extension alone is around 16,000 THB.

However, if they enter Thailand on a visa-exempt entry and do not already have a Thai bank account, the situation is different. In that case, our service covers bank account opening, a 3-month Non-O visa, and the one-year extension. The total fee for the full package is 60,000 THB.

The process typically takes around 3 days to complete, and the client needs to be with us in person on the first day.

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Get 90 day O visa from your country first

I used Naviya Sooksai for 38k. Seamless process and fantastic service

Can't have $ sign and baht in the same amount

Not to piggyback on another person's post, but does anyone have personal experience with Siam Legal?

19k but that's multi visa be warned bbk bank is a no no now feking hard work 2 get new account grrr

I was told by an agent it was going to cost $5,000 baht until I showed up with my paperwork which admittedly had some flaws. The cost then raised to 27,000 baht. then I took the bank papers myself which were unflawed to the immigration office, spent a total of 7 hours between 2 days and $1,900 baht got me a 1-year extension of my non-o visa. a suggestion I have is get your bank papers on one day and do your paperwork starting in the morning on another day at the immigration office, this would probably cut my time in half.

~ 30,000bht. Depending upon your needs and area.

since you cannot open a bank account on a touristic entry, it is important we know on which visa you entered or if you entered visa exempt. If you want to do the "change of visa type" from a touristic entry to the initial 90-days Non-O retirememnt visa, and from there to the 1-year extension of the stay permit, you would need a Thai bank account. This kind of "full package" can only be done by a handful of agents and costs between 60,000 and 90,000 THB. If you entered on a 90-days Non-O retirement visa, the agent can help with the bank account opening for 5000 Baht, and the rest of the service - the application to the extension, would cost something between 7,500 and 12,500 Baht

we need more information. Did you enter on a 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa you got issued outside of Thailand before you flew here, or did you enter visa-exempt or on a tourist visa?

Do it yourself, agents are usually expensive .

36k or so for initial 15 months. Then 16-18k for annual renewals

Depends if you have your own money or need the agent to put it in your bank account.

Do it yourself. You still have to do most of the work anyway. Dr, bank etc

You're retired, it'll give yourself something to do 💯😂