What are the visa and schooling options for a family of 8 moving to Bangkok in 2026?

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What is the passport nation of each family member ?

Where are you now?

Which DTV visa will you be applying for?

Workcation or Soft Power Activity ?

Where will you be applying for the DTV visa?

Where will you be living in Thailand?

How you are going to pay education for so many children is the main question

Same question but to a different group. Same answers as in the other group. Discounting the mother in law as she can make a 90 day Non-O visa based on retirement but will need 800k baht in a Thai bank for the 12 month extension of stay. That still leaves 7 people trying to get DTVs out of a single 500k baht amount, it is simply not feasible. I guess the three youngest kids could just come in visa exempt as there is no penalty for them until they hit 15 other than an overstay stamp on their passport but I wouldn't recommend this. That just leaves you, your wife and 2 oldest to apply for DTVs but whether any consulate would allow this based on only 500k baht for 1 and sponsorship letters for the other I really don't know.

Life, medical, education, and visas would be an astronomical cost to do this effectively.

That many people, visa runs, constant renewals.. As people age.. Etc.. Its a major thing.

Dependants don’t need to show the 500k, only the main person. Your kids need to go to school if you want education visas for them, and international schools are around 300k to over a million baht per year, per kid.

You got all the info in your other post. Almost impossible what you are trying to do. Learn to live with it.

The ongoing visa obstacles for that many members would hurt my brain with reporting, border runs and renewals, full time job 😂 just come in holidays for 6 months a year be easier

Have you investigated the cost of education in Thailand - it is not cheap. Some Embassies want to 500k for all dependents while others just the main one - I would concentrate search on that now. As for your Mother retirement visa means 800k in a Thai bank or 65k THB income per month.

I would quote siam legal from their website, its free

Fear not the financial requirements needed for ED or retirees non-o as its all taken care of if applying via a reputable agency, they sort it out for you