What long-stay visa options are available for a retired expat in Phuket with a monthly income of 55,000 Baht?

@Oakley *****

Sorry I should have included boyfriend

There are fees with bitcoin. But yes buy some with pounds or whatever and then convert it back

@Oak***

, unfortunately I live in Cambodia, but I would love you to get me into shape.... (and when I say love, I mean in a good way not in a gay way).

Sorry

@Oak***

I have trouble counting to 10 I have no idea, but I need to lose some weight.

Martin Howarth. Its 2 months for the first year.

@Oakley *****

so as long as u can come up with the cash/income requirement u can go for the retirement visa

Another note on that: if you remortgaged your properties and u die the next year, you dont need to worry the payment either! 😂😂

@Alex ***

correct, if not good I would just sell up lol depends if op is 52 or 92. Suspect the companies have some sort of complicated form to fill in with health questions, lifestyle etc and make a call on how much to risk but they dont do it to loose money for sure.

@Oakley *****

really depends on how much you will get for the lump sum then but that's off topic

@Oakley *****

why would you do that? Why not as some suggest re mortgage, maybe not all, take out life assurance, then the rent more than covers mortgage and if you die no forfeit of properties. Dont forget you may find nice Thai lady :-)

So retirement visa will suit you?

@Oakley *****

maybe u can remortgage your rental properties and get the cash for your retirement visa requirements as well as living expenses; let your tenants paid off your mortgages.

Income doesnt have to be from within Thailand. Income letter from embassy saying you have an income from overseas is good enogh.

Yes... Get all your edu visas until the government finally realises that most of the students are fake. Then they will put an end to it which will affect all the legit students. Using an edu visa and not being a proper student is simply illegal.

Jasmine Kunhawong.

Yes, I know.

I said you don't have to leave.

I didn't say you can't leave.

@Jim ****

.Actually, you can leave the country when you have ED visa but you need to inform the school in advance to the school will ask you to get re-entry before you can go out and come back with it.

actually you can get it at any language school. There are many options about the period of time like 3 months, 6 months or 1 year and also about the price.Important. you need to make sure that you have 1 month left on your recently visa. Pm me if you would like to have more information.

No. You do the 90 day report every three months so immigration know where you live. You don't have to leave the country.

2 months for the first year

^ in a year period Aka 400k on bank + 33k per month income proven. Or get a multi entry visa and take train in and out once every 3 months and visit ur country every 9 months. or get a business visa by investing on some asset here in thailand. For the later one I dont recommend but its still better than the elite visa. At least the money isnt wasted. Or do as they say with the education visa. Not too recommended also for the fact they making it harsher. The best one is really retirement visa followed by multientry/business. Tourist/education you risk being blacklisted for no reason in long term.

As for conversion fees you can lower it to as much as 3÷ if you manage to open a bank acc here in thailand by using a service such as transferwise. cheaper than international bank tranfers and atm withdrawals on forgein accounts.

Or a combination of the two as long as you end up with 800k.