What is the typical waiting time and experience for obtaining a rare LTR visa in Thailand?

𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗡𝗢 "𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲" 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 😕

𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗫𝗔𝗖𝗧 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀, 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗲𝘁𝗰 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗰𝗮𝘁.. 😮

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 "𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝘅𝘅𝘅 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝘆𝘆 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗮" 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘁.

𝗪𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗧𝗥 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗸,

𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗘.

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Troy Roberts... Commented...

"Brian McCarter in my experience it varies a lot unfortunately. Mine took almost 10 weeks end to end, my wife’s took less than 10 days. Some of that time was self inflicted, lots of it was related to the category I applied under and the documents required.

The status steps on the website are pretty broad so I found them to be limited in terms of detailed status but a pretty good indicator of if your application is moving or stalled.

The agents doing the processing are generally pretty quick at doing actions that are in their court but they are a front end to Thai Immigration so there are steps where they process something and then need to pass it to immigration next and that seems to be a bit of a black hole so that is where at least some of the vague answers originate I believe.

The overall process is that the BOI processes the applications and weeds out those that do not qualify and makes sure that all of the steps and documents are correct so that packets that go forward to immigration are most likely to be successful or come back with minimal questions.

If your application had all the right documents and any questions that the BOI processors had were resolved then the rest should move fairly quickly like a few days at most. If you feel like it is “stuck” then I found that they were pretty responsive to at least let you know if it was back in your court or waiting for something on their end so you at least know where the ball is.

It is also my opinion that for the LTR there was no grey zone on the requirements, they hold pretty much to the letter, so if you think that something qualifies in your opinion but it needs them to understand something (like an odd pension income or anything like that) then they do not have a lot of wiggle room. (I suspect that is a rule from Immigration and not the BOI)"

Currently it has been estimated that only about 10 per cent of applicants have been approved.

Still a huge backlog and rumors of changes to the income requirements, that may be beneficial to applicants.

Hopefully it's going to get better!

I also contacted via Line a few times and got run around a little bit.

But once I finally picked up the phone and called (a last resort since I hate talking on the phone) things started moving much quicker.

I had to call multiple times to move the process along. Took a total of 50 days for me to get approved. Would have been less had I known earlier I would need to nudge them along.

I got stuck at this point for 5 months and after they asked for all my info in multiple ways (SSN, tax returns, monthly bank and brokerage statements over last 2 years etc.), they rejected me without reason. I suspect they did not view my deferred income as a pension despite it being that. Very tedious and disappointing waste of a lot of time. I wish you luck … others have got it.

Sounds like you've been approved by an officer and it's now passed to his supervisor for confirmation