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What are the requirements for a multi-entry retirement visa in Thailand, and how long is it valid for?
Mar 13, 2026
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Alexandros ***********
ORIGINAL POSTERAssuming bank requirements are met, does one have to stay more than 180 days a year in thailand to get a multi entry retirement visa? How many years validity can a retirement visa have? Thank you.
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In Thailand, to obtain a multi-entry retirement visa (Non-O or Non-OA), you are not required to stay more than 180 days a year. The multi-entry status is an additional application to a retirement visa, which itself is valid for 90 days upon entry, extending to a one-year stay permit if financial requirements are met. The multi-entry permit allows for multiple re-entries during the validity period of your stay permit. The retirement visa can be renewed annually, and while the non-OA visa is typically valid for one year, a multi-entry re-entry permit incurs an additional fee and is usually good for one year as well.
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Alan **********
My friend, you are confusing yourself and everybody else.
A visa, of any kind, gets you INTO Thailand and your passport is stamped with the appropriate “persission to stay” for whatever length the visa allows.��To retire in Thailand you would generally get either a Non-O, or Non-OA visa in your HOME country and then come in.
The 2 visas are very similar. The Non-OA initial requirements are a bit stricter, but once you get in, getting the rest of the requirements done is a bit easier.
For the Non-O, the requirements to get in are a bit easier, but then you have more to do once you GET in.
For EITHER visa, once you complete all the requirements, you get a 1-year permission to stay, after which you need to check in with immigration every 90 days.
On your 1-year anniversay you then apply for another 1-year permission to stay. Without any issues the previous year, I understand 1-year permissions are fairly routine.
Now, once you have your retirement permission to stay all squared away, whenever you wish to leave Thailand, BEFORE you leave, you apply for a “re-entry permit”. This allows you to leave and then come back in with no issue(s).
If you do NOT get the re-entry permit before leaving, your retirement visa/permission to stay is CANCELED, and you have to start the entire process over again.
You CAN get a “multi-entry” re-entry permit for an additional fee.
This is the basic process.
A visa, of any kind, gets you INTO Thailand and your passport is stamped with the appropriate “persission to stay” for whatever length the visa allows.��To retire in Thailand you would generally get either a Non-O, or Non-OA visa in your HOME country and then come in.
The 2 visas are very similar. The Non-OA initial requirements are a bit stricter, but once you get in, getting the rest of the requirements done is a bit easier.
For the Non-O, the requirements to get in are a bit easier, but then you have more to do once you GET in.
For EITHER visa, once you complete all the requirements, you get a 1-year permission to stay, after which you need to check in with immigration every 90 days.
On your 1-year anniversay you then apply for another 1-year permission to stay. Without any issues the previous year, I understand 1-year permissions are fairly routine.
Now, once you have your retirement permission to stay all squared away, whenever you wish to leave Thailand, BEFORE you leave, you apply for a “re-entry permit”. This allows you to leave and then come back in with no issue(s).
If you do NOT get the re-entry permit before leaving, your retirement visa/permission to stay is CANCELED, and you have to start the entire process over again.
You CAN get a “multi-entry” re-entry permit for an additional fee.
This is the basic process.
Nongnuch ********
a single entry Non-Imm-O "retirement visa" is valid for 90 days. When you enter, you get stamped in for a 90-days stay permit. The "visa" itself expires when you enter. You then apply for the 1-year "extension of the stay permit" (by fulfilling the financial requirements). This "extended stay permit" must get applied for every year. When you get issued the 1-year Extension of Stay Permit on Immigration, you can buy a single (1000 THB) or multiple (3800 THB) re-entry permit, it will keep the 1-year stay permit active and alive when you exit and re-enter Thailand during this one-year stay permit
Barath *******
Nongnuch Kamdee, thank you 🙏
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Mike ********
When you go to immigration to get you 1 year retirement visa you can get a multi entry visa stamp at that time. It’s an extra fee. Note that the form will have a check box for the single and the multi entry. Obviously check the multi.
Tomas *******
Multi entry is only interesting if you plan to leave more than two times per year. In any case you can always get an additional single re entry at your immigration
Bob ******
the retirement visa is one thing. The multiple reentry is a seperate application you apply for after you get your retirement visa. Costs around 3,800B last time I got one.
Nongnuch ********
@Bob *****
. . ."after you get your retirement visa." . . . this is wrong. . . . The 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa you started out with, expired when you entered Thailand. You only get the STAY PERMIT extended annually, and for this 1-year STAY PERMIT you buy a re-entry permitPreben *******************
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ExactlyNongnuch ********
Preben Kronborg Nielsen "exactly" ??? He is wrong
Bob ******
Preben Kronborg Nielsen my multiple reentry is good for 2 years as my visa is for 2 years
Nongnuch ********
@Bob *****
wrong, and please be VERY careful ! . . . .If you started out on a Non-Imm-O/A Longstay Visa, you only have a multi re-entry permit included in the first year of the visa validity. After the expiry of the visa validity, you have no re-entry permit any more. If you wish to exit and re-enter Thailand during the "second year", you will need to buy a re-entry permit in order to keep your most recent stay permit aliveBob ******
Nongnuch Kamdee Ihave had my BOI 2 year visa now renewed 7 times and each time I bought a multiple reentry and the multiple rentry is for 2 years dated and stamped as such in my passport. SO I am correct. I didnt start out with a long term visa. I have a BOI work permit with special privilages that include fast track entry into and out of Thailand. Right now I am in Vietnam and returning to Thailand this evening and I am in the 2nd year of my 2 year visa and the 2nd year of my multiple reentry!! You obviously along with know nothing about Thailand Board of Investment visas and work permits
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Michael ********
Doesnt matter how long you stay, i stay less than 180 days in a year usually
Frank-Steven ***********
Any visa is either single entry or multiple entry. If on an allowed stay stamp based off of a single entry visa, a re-entry permit can be bought (either single or multiple re-entries) to keep the current stamp active and be able to re-enter based off of it (before its expiry date). If on a multiple entry visa, no need for any re-entry permit as a new allowed stay will be stamped in automatically upon re-entry. None if this is related to any minumum term spent in Thailand.
Lorenzo *******
Retirement visa , are Easier in Thailand
Stephen ********
Lorenzo Bravo Not anymore. Best to get from an embassy
Lorenzo *******
Graham Seal. Are you shure
Graham ******
Lorenzo Bravo positive
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Graham ******
Lorenzo Bravo Not true because it means having a Thai bank account and the required funds or, failing that, an Embassy income affidavit which is not possible for many.
Lorenzo *******
Still can
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John **********
No minimum time. By multi entry retirement visa do you mean a Non-OA visa or a Non-O visa with 12 month extension and a multiple re-entry permit or something else? Both of the above are good for 12 months
Robert ********
That questions is so confusing. First of all a retirement visa is valid for 1 year and renewable every year.
Stephen ********
Robert Lummis A non-O retirement visa is valid for 90 days. Cannot be renewed, but can be extended for 12 months, and extended each year thereafter
Robert ********
Stephen Howell same shit. Semantics. Picky people always
Alan **********
Robert Lummis LMAO
Sure, and then you and your ilk run off, take the advice you (think you) got here, and are denied, or it doesn't work, only to learn that what you read isn't what you remembered and or did.
And then you blame the posters here for giving you "bad advice", when the fact is you misread, and/or misunderstood, the DIFFERENCE between, e.g. a visa, and a permission to stay.
So why even troll around here ? 😠
Sure, and then you and your ilk run off, take the advice you (think you) got here, and are denied, or it doesn't work, only to learn that what you read isn't what you remembered and or did.
And then you blame the posters here for giving you "bad advice", when the fact is you misread, and/or misunderstood, the DIFFERENCE between, e.g. a visa, and a permission to stay.
So why even troll around here ? 😠
Graeme ******
Robert Lummis not true because you can get a non O-A multi entry retirement visa that is valid for one year !! So there are 2 different visas with different requirements which can both be referred to as retirement visas. A non O and a non O-A so its important to understand the difference
Nongnuch ********
Graeme Mort . . . . bad wording, not true! "because you can get a non O-A multi entry retirement visa that is valid for one year" . . . . . . . this is wrong. The Non-Imm-O/A Visa is not a retirement visa. It is called LONGSTAY visa. The only true "retirement visa" is the single entry 90-days Non-Imm-O Visa
Stephen ********
Robert Lummis I simply believe in giving CORRECT information. You don't. That's ok. We'll live with that
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Jim ***********
Retirement visa is renewed annually. Multi entry are paid on top of visa fee depending if single re entry or multi required.
Nongnuch ********
Jim Patterson ?? "Retirement visa is renewed annually" . . . . . this is wrong. You cannot get your "visa" renewed. The 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa you started out with, expired when you entered Thailand. You only get the STAY PERMIT extended annually
Jim ***********
Nongnuch Kamdee same same. We all say renewing visa, I'm on 4th year renewing my visa. I have never said words 4th year renewing my stay.
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Roger **********
Jim Patterson Aren’t there 2 types of retirement visa?
I have the 1-year, and multiple re-entry, which was less paperwork, obtained here in Thailand
I have the 1-year, and multiple re-entry, which was less paperwork, obtained here in Thailand
Jim ***********
Roger Mcintyre single entry and multi entry are re entry permits. O visa and OA visa are retirement
Roger **********
Jim Patterson exactly. I got the O retirement plus multiple re-entry. The OA requires additional items including health check, I think
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Lorenzo *******
Jim Patterson , re agent in chounbury ,
Jim ***********
Lorenzo Bravo ? I do visas myself and don't live Chonburi
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