What are the options for obtaining a cheap Retirement Visa in Pattaya?

Use the Thai visa centre

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If you don't have own funds of minimum 23,000.- USD or 800,000.- THB, you will have to pay an agent to grease the wheels and get you the 90-days Non-Imm-O retirement visa, and the subsequent 1-year extension of stay permit. . . .

For these first 15 months, agents are asking from 32.000.- THB upward, which is almost 1000.- US Dollars. I have read reports of agents asking for 74.000.- THB from Newbies, for such a service, a real ripoff price

Future "extension renewals" without you having own funds, will cost from 12.000 to 15.000 THB.

If however you have your own funds, an agent will not need to bribe the officials, then the service will be something like 12,500.- THB.

If you do it by yourself on Immigration inside Thailand, the fees are 2000.- THB and then another 1900.- THB. And 1000.- THB for a single re-entry permit.

The pre-requisite is, you need to have a deposit on your Thai bank account of a minimum of 800,000.- THB with proof that the money came from abroad, and a rental contract.

An agents service normally will include a re-entry permit and the fees on Immigration, which for a “change of visa type” to the initial 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement visa is 2000.- THB, and for the application to the “1-year Extension of Stay Permit” will be 1900.- THB.

There is nothing like a “cheap retirement visa”. Everything in your life will have a price

1,900 baht is pretty cheap

If you want a visa agent to assist you In Pattaya, expect to pay between ฿30k and ฿40k for the first year, it's around ฿15k for the second and years to follow. depending on if you want a multiple entry visa or not.

Cheap would be doing it yourself. Only 1900bht + requirements

1900bt at immigration

Key Visa

If you are looking for an Agent I recommend MOTS.

Visa Maneerat

Soi Pattaya 13/2, Pattaya City, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri , Pattaya City, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri 20150, Thailand

Good, not expensive service, especially if you don't want put the 800,000k or don't have the 65k monthly income.

Try the company Bangkok Buddy.

1900 baht at any immigration office in Thailand... pretty cheap, but you have to do it yourself and have the correct documentation including the 800k THB in a bank account sourced from outside Thailand. Or you can pay an agent to handle that and everything else for you, but it's a lot less cheap.