What is the easiest retirement visa path for a UK citizen looking to move to Thailand?

@Mark ******

When you apply for those visa outside Thailand, many differences are there, but significant ones may be,

- Non-OA: multiple entries, entry stamp for 365 days on every entry, the visa itself is valid for 1 year from the issued date. You need to have specific insurance when applying for a visa and in case you want to apply for an extension from Non-OA entry.

- Non-O: single entry, entry stamp for 90days, the visa itself is valid for 90days from the issued date. You may or may not need specific insurance.

@Rory ********

, currently (as of right now), there is no requirements you have to have insurance for you to apply Non-O based on being 50 in-country from your TR or visa-exempt entry.

@Nick ******

not the first year you won't be able to

IF you come from the UK it means they do not issue the affidavit of income from abroad notary letter anymore (they stopped end of Dec 2018) that means IF you choose to use monthly income method you need to transfer IN to a thai bank account in your name only a minimum of 65 K baht a month each month every month for the preceding 12 months before you apply.

IF you come in on a 90 day Non-O visa, AND if you start transferring money in every month you'll only have 3 months max of transfers. It is my personal experience that no office will let you get a yearly extension (even if it's your first year) with so few of transfers. There is a report out of Krabi that they allowed a person to do it BUT that's the only case I know of in hundreds of attempts