What are the options for obtaining a retirement visa in Thailand without the required funds?

Where are you located?

Many retirees now opting for DTV, very easy to get. Best option for those that still want to travel a bit. Cost is only 10,000 baht for FIVE YEARS. You use proof of funds in your home country bank or superannuation account. Best thing if all - no requirement to visit an immigration office for FIVE YEARS!!

Stay home. Don't come!!!

Just do it properly

Question. Can my Thai spouse be on my Thai bank account with the 25K? I ask that is case something unexpected happens to me so she can assess the funds in a emergency

Tiktok in Jomtien.

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Truthfully.....you should stay where you are, based on your request for information. Living in Thailand is not as cheap as you probably have been lead to believe.

Agency from B, and 10-12b evry year.

Those who depend on agencies to slide their discrepancies through the system have a rude awakening coming.

Immigration is training all new college grads by the book to take over supervision positions. Greasing the wheel will be a thing of the past for all immigration offices in the very near future.

I have already seen it in Samut Prakan. By the book. Every detail verified and checked twice. It will catch agencies helping you when you're short on your bank account or don't have a good address or whatever discrepancies you might have. They checked my balance weekly for the year. I had to make sure I deposited the 65,000 baht a month for income, as I was unable to get the certified letter like I used originally 3 years ago, from Social Security. The previous 2 years I made the deposits regularly knowing I couldn't get the letter.

It supposedly is going to clean up some of the foreigner rift raft.

Thailand is know for implementing changes and then backing down. I think this change is going to stick.

Good luck if you're unable to dot all of your i's and cross all of your t's. Because the young lady supervisor my window immigration agent had to prove everything to wore an extremely tight belt last month. I had never seen so much highlighting of dates, dollar amounts, etc... Even my original application to Thai immigration in Washington DC in America went smoother.

I will say, I have handled all of my immigration paperwork all alone. It's a jailable offense to lie on your application.

I've never been to jail. And I damn sure don't want to start in Thailand.

Do not support corruption in any way.

If you don’t have the minimum for the retirement visa and you use an agent which will give an eye popping rate to season the money in the bank acct…what are you going to do in year 2 when they will want to see that bank acct again…you will be in perpetual debt living a skint life in a ฿3k a month apartment with only a fan

Just send a message to

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MOTS….far less then 37K……that is way way overpriced

No idea, no money, no hope

I know some who did it w/o the Thai funds, she is disabled, just need a good lawyer she has been here for 15 years. The Attorney is the key.

O Visa for 3 months from your country then extend retirement visa 12 months Thailand. Extension agent will be about baht multiple entry

If you are staying in Bangkok I can help you with your retirement visa. It can be done in one day for a 15 month visa.

Go to pataya to eny agences the will find you the solution to your problem.😉

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What passport do you hold

@Barry ******

? If it's an Irish passport you can get an income certificate from the Irish embassy in bangkok

Many of the folks on this site are very anti-agency. I have had nothing but good experiences with the one I use.

Where are you located?

I used an agent with very good connections (judging from my ... Challenges), I'm not sure if they can help you but if any agency can, I bet they could.

if you can afford like 37,000 THB for the agent for greasing the wheels for the first 15 months, and accept that you will be caught in the agent's hamster wheel on all future yearly extensions, then you are free to risk it. Otherwise I would say, if you ain't got a minimum backup of 25,000 US Dollars, or earn a minimum of monthly 1500 USD up, you should not move to and live in Thailand at all