What is the best visa option for obtaining a retirement visa in Thailand while ensuring the necessary funds are maintained in a Thai bank account?

I just received my non-immigrant O-A visa and just had to show statements from my US Bank and my social security statement. I didn’t need to have any money in a Thai bank.

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You have the option to apply for a Non O Visa which would give you 90 days on arrival or a Non OA visa which would give you 1 year (depending on your insurance coverage). Either option allows you to extend providing you meet the financial requirements of 800k in a local bank in your name only 2 months prior to applying. It needs to stay in the account for 3 months afterwards and the balance can’t go below 400k for the remainder of the year. For a following extension it would need to be back up to 800 two months prior to applying again. For the Non O visa you do not need to have medical insurance (past the initial requirements for the Certificate of entry), for the OA visa you do and for subsequent extensions.

The money have to be in the bank , 2 months before and 3 months after , but you have to stay more than 6 months the year in Thailand, it’s what the tell me at immigration in Thailand, I have non immigrant o visa

Non Imm O based on being over 50. Gets you 90 days, enough time to season your 800,000k

Just get the type OA visa from the Thai embassy before you even get here. Then you do not have to do anything until it is time to extend it. Put the bt800,000 in a Thai bank account in your name, then just leave it there. You've got to leave bt400,000 in the bank all year anyway, so just leave the bt800,000 there, and you don't have to bother with it. Get your health insurance and your set. Contact the embassy. They will help you.

You could get a tourist visa (60 days ) , do your 15days ASQ. On leaving ASQ open a thai bank account, put 800k bt in it. Get a visa extension of 30 days on your tourist visa. Change your tourist visa to O-A as soon as your money has been in your account for 2 months. Follow the rules for how long and how much has to remain in it. Renew O-A annually in country.

If you get a O-A retirement Visa for one year you only have to show $2,500 a month in an account for 6 months and that will give you five entries and cost $200.. The 5 year option has more restrictions

I didn’t know you had to stay 2 months before and three after?

It depends on which type of retirement Visa you are getting