What are the steps to obtain a retirement visa in Thailand?

Collect box tops from Post Tosties, or be of age, 50+, with 25k usd available to park in a bank account for security. All yours, just need the money available. 25k usd at this time.

Plus another 5k or more to get here and set up an apartment. A little extra cushion is always good, too. Plus, a regular deposit to your bank account so you have funds for fun, and all Thailand has to offer. Oh, a valid visa with more than, I believe, 6 months of validity. You can renew the visa at your embassy later. Check your driving license, or identification card, to be certain it has a few years until it expires too. Some insurance should be included in your funds. Enough for a month without an apartment. If anything else...please comment. I'm preparing for an October arrival. Oh! A visa agent, about 1000 to 1500 makes the transition easier too.

Check Thai embassy website 🤡

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Go to immigration like everyone else

Try googling your embassy for true facts.

Dont belive in any of the shit you get on Facebook. There are som many "want to be" but you dont get the right information. Go to the embassys website and search yourself.

Because the question is so stupid that you cant belive it. What does this fool expect??? Why did he not look at the embassys website. Everything is explained to him.

Whatever happened to the sentiment that if yiu have nothing nice to say about somebody then don't say anything at all?

I guess its been lost in translation.

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Go to your local Thai Embassy..!

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Get a visa agent easy

Check Thai embassy page to have full up to date info, you can only apply via Internet, it is an eVisa ... It is quite easy but a bit of work

Apply for one when your over 50

By making an application? Perhaps start by a simple google search?

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I do not recommend starting out on a Non-Imm-O/A Longstay Visa. If you don't mind putting 800,000 THB into a Thai bank account, stick to the 90-days Non-Imm-O retirement visa.

Another reason is, after the maximum of 2 years on a Non-Imm-O/A visa, you will be forced to make a contract with a Thai private health insurance, and you will have to put a minimum of 800,000 THB into a Thai bank account anyways. Not really recommended.

You fare much better if you start out on a Non-Imm-O retirement visa. On a Non-Imm-O visa and the extension out of it, you do NOT need a mandatory health insurance

OPENING YOUR THAI BANK ACCOUNT:

Arrive on the Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, show your visa and the TDAC, and get stamped in for a 90-days stay permit.

*** immediately meet an agent. Don’t mess around trying to do it by yourself.

With the agent and a rental contract or the TM30 registration of the hotel, visit Immigration and register your name in the premises per TM30

*** then get a “certificate of residence” from Immigration. Get a Thai mobile SIM-card and number, make sure the number is matched with your passport number and name.

***visit a bank (preferably Kasikorn, SCB or Bangkok Bank) and get your bank account opened. If you meet incompetent and unwilling staff, use an agent to get the bank account opened.

In Pattaya this service costs around 5000 THB. I don’t know about Hat Yai, maybe your condo agent can help

***once your account is opened, transfer a minimum of 800,000 THB onto it from your home bank. You can use a direct transfer or use WISE or Revolut for this transfer.

***visit Immigration and ask them for the handout list of requirements needed for the “extension of temporary stay permit based on retirement”

*** once the money has “seasoned” in your account for 2 months, and you are in the last 30 days of your 90-days stay permit, you can apply for the “1-year Extension of the Stay Permit based on Retirement” (EOS). The fee is 1900 THB.

Always buy a single re-entry permit for 1000 THB on top of the 1-year EOS

You will need the “bank letter of guarantee” – a statement that the deposit has been in your account for the required 2 months. A freshly updated bankbook, a fresh receipt from a small withdrawal at an ATM from the same day. Some passport pictures (some Immigrations do them digitally). Your passport, filled out forms for the applications (can be had at the Immigration office) Have all documents listed on the handout list of requirements ready

Good Luck and happy days in Thailand

It is not uncommon that the Thai embassy in your country, and later the Immigration inside Thailand, asks you for the SOURCE of your income.

Since you aren’t allowed to touch the 800,000 THB once it is sitting in a Thai bank account, after been issued the 1-year extension, you must be able to prove you can pay for your living expenses by showing some money coming into your account from abroad.

Some Thai embassies let you apply for the "Non-Imm-O retirement visa" only if you are a REAL pensioner! In case you are not, some embassies will tell you to apply for the Non-Imm-O/A visa instead.

For example, the Thai embassy Vienna/Austria is requiring an official pension proof if you wish to apply for the 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa. Just have 800,000 THB or equivalent sitting in your bank account and being over 50 years old, is not sufficient

We are talking about the most common and persisting misunderstandings regarding the rules that come with applying for the “retirement visa” and the subsequent “one-year extension of stay permit based on retirement”. Misunderstandings happen because a “retirement visa” can mean 7 different visas and stay permits

The best way is to show up in Thailand on a 90-days single entry Non-Imm-O Retirement/over 50 visa” as it will get you a 90-days stay permit stamped. Within this period you have plenty of time to arrange for the application to the “1-year extended stay permit”

If you have arrived on this 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, you can get a bank account opened on it. You should do this immediately really soon after you have arrived. If you meet incompetent bank staff, don’t keep trying but get the help of an agent. It costs around 5000 THB for the service to get a bank account opened.

You will need the account when you change to the 1-year extension of the stay permit. I have explained it a bit further down

You can theoretically fly on a one-way ticket because this visa allows you to receive a long-term stay in Thailand. Some airlines might not accept this explanation and will ask you for an onward travel proof out of Thailand within these 90 days, that’s why you should contact them by email and see what they say

In order to apply for the “90-days single entry Non-Imm-O retirement visa” through the online E-visa system at the Royal Thai Embassy of your home country, you can use the proof of income of a monthly minimum of the equivalent of 65,000 THB, by using your original pension or other income documentation,

Or

You show 3 months of account statements over deposit of a minimum of 800,000 THB or the equivalent in your home country currency, or on your home bank account, or on a Thai bank, or just anywhere in the World – as long as the account is in your sole name

However, for the later application inside Thailand, for the “1-year extension of stay permit” out of the 90-days Non-Imm-O retirement visa, if you are a citizen of a country whose embassy in Thailand does not issue the “income affidavit” any more (these are the embassies of USA, UK, Canada, Norway and Australia) you would need a “12 months bank statement”, showing that for the past 12 months, you have been transferring from abroad to your Thai bank account a minimum of 65,000 THB, consecutively month for month, never missing a single month.

If your embassy still issues an affidavit of income, you can use this method for the financial proof, which needs a monthly income or pension of a minimum of 65,000 THB

For all above mentioned citizens, in the first year there is no other way around, than depositing a minimum of 800,000 THB in your Thai bank account. They will have to use this deposit for the financial proof which is required for the application to the “1-year extension of stay permit based on being over 50/retired”, at least in the first year.

The alternative would be, if you don’t have that kind of money or are not willing to deposit 800,000 THB in a Thai Bank account, paying an agent to “arrange” the requirements and get around the law, which I do not recommend because you will get caught in the agent hamster wheel.

As soon as you have accumulated the 12 consecutive months of 65,000 THB transfers, month for month, you can apply for the next 1-year extension of the stay permit, using the 12-months bank statement, in the second year. After being issued the next extension, you can theoretically take the 800,000 THB out of your bank account.

This application to a 1-Year Extension costs a 1900 THB fee and you can theoretically do it all by yourself, or accept the help of an agent for the simplified legal service.

NOTE: It is income OR deposit.

On the day of application to the 1-year extension, the 800,000 THB need to have “seasoned” in your account for two months, and this has to be proven with the “bank letter of guarantee” (rab roong thanakan). This is why I said in the beginning that it is important to get the bank account opened and the money transferred really soon right after you have entered Thailand, so you can fulfill the 2 months seasoning requirement.

After been issued the “1-year Extension of the Stay Permit based on Retirement”, the 800K need to remain in the account for 3 more months. After these 3 months, the deposit shall never go under 400,000 THB. Before your application to the next “1-year Extension of Stay”, a minimum of 800,000 THB must have seasoned in the account for two months, again.

On the day you get issued the “1-year extension of stay permit”, you should buy a re-entry permit for it.

A re-entry permit will keep your stay permit alive in case you exit Thailand before the expiry of the 1-year stay permit.

A single re-entry permit is 1000 THB on Immigration. A multi re-entry is 3800 THB. With a multi re-entry permit, you could exit and re-enter as many times as you wish during the whole stay permit period.

Good Luck and a great time in Thailand

Ffs are you really that stupid ,,, go to Thai immigration page for all visa types and conditions it’s all there

You by yourself can not. You’ll need help

By the Immigration....😂😂

Best place is a start with an agent these people give all sorts of information here agent knows exactly what you need

GO to immigration ask them what is required

Or THB income every month

you need o - visa

Why not ask at the Immigration in the City (Province) where you like to stay. At the local Immigration, they normally sober, and they KNOW the rules and the Thai law.

Be retired

I know the real answer.for how most people accomplish a Thai retirement Visa

It is like asking how do I book a flight to Thailand?

IF you're going there for a woman...!!!!! ALL THE BEST, GOOD LUCK! Ask the thousands of "Farangs" on You Tube before you go. Good luck.. God Bless man..!

I have a little over 600k. USD. Can I retire there in my 50s?

Get old

Show you have lots of money

Hard to believe in 2026 people do not know how to do Google research 🫩😖

Apply for one

Sad how many crappy and sarcastic comments there are to this. It's a fair question for someone who isn't in the know.

Did you Google it. Mate. Its easy.

Full fill the requirements. Its easy

Apply for it

Just read information on website.

I got one and my first point of call was Google !!!

Start by getting a non-o then you can get an retirement extension if that is what you mean.

These surely cannot be serious questions? What’s happening to this group?

Wow. What a question. You must have done extensive research to get to this point.

Just bring a bongo drum and go live with the cast of The Beach on Koh Phangan

Apply

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Get a agent

Get a visa agent...

Come give me baht and I’ll tell you 🤫

Visa agent

Immigration in Thailand is his easiest the license bureau in America not a big deal

Get a student visa first

To get a retirement visa in Thailand (Non-Immigrant O or O-A), you must be at least 50 years old, have 800,000 THB in a Thai bank account for 2-3 months, or a monthly income of 65,000 THB. Applications require a 12-month valid passport, proof of funds, health insurance, and a criminal background check.

Why can stupid people not stop with their stupid answers that are nonse, are they just drunk

Retire first

You apply for it

Agent

CHAT GPT

Go to a visa agency easy

Google first so you have a clue.

Apply for it.

You apply for it on this website.

The most common one to apply for is the Non-O, and extend your stay yearly in Thailand.

Apply

Contact Thai Embassy in your county and ask. Or search from Google.

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Thai visa centre will help you out

Is your dinner spoon fed to you?

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Ask for one with the correct documents

F me not another one.

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Retire for a start

What country are you from ?

Are you over 50 ?

Do you have 800,000 baht or equivalent in any bank ?

Are you in Thailand now ?

I will post the same thing I always advise

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For over 50 years of age 100% easier & cheaper to apply for a Suitable retirement Visa from your home country

When you are ready to come - Apply for a Non-O 90 day Visa from the Thai Embassy in your home country about 30-45 days before departure.

When applying online you will need to show the required funds in any bank account , some personal details & Flight details & proof of first weeks accommodation .

Once approved & arrive in Thailand you have 90 days to organise for the 12 month extension

No.1 requirement is

Within 2 weeks of arrival You need to set up a Thai bank account & deposit 800K Baht for at least 60 days to satisfy the extension

Go to the bank of choice & ask them what they require to open a bank account

You can also come to Thailand on a tourist Visa & get it converted to a Non-O retirement Visa for a much higher cost

Apply