What type of visa is recommended for retirees planning to stay in Thailand for five months annually?

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Przyjezdzasz na 60 dni przedluzasz 30 wyjezdzasz do innego kraju w okolicach ( moze byc piec minut et daja ci nadtepne 60 dni jak wracasz ico mozesz przedluzyc 30 dni

Could a dtv work- multi entry with up to 6 months each time - valid 5 years

Multiple entry tourist visa you can stretch this visa to almost 9 months you would ha to do one extension 30 days and a border bounce to get your 5 months but you might enjoy a few days in a neighboring country then you have the option to stay longer if you like

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@Marek *********

please ignore the Internet troll Frangipani Annie . . she has no idea about Thai visa and entry permit regulations . . . . . . . .. . You are free to apply in the E-Visa System of the Warsaw Thai Embassy for a METV every (yes, EVERY!) other year. You will find out that this is absolutely no problem. And it also is no problem for Thai Immigration

Multiple entry tourist visa ....be sure to have a flight booked out before your first 60 days is up.

I am not sure how Immigration would react to a couple coming back year after year on a tourist visa, even if it is a METV?

It is all dependent on the Immigration Officer you stand before on the day. Please be aware, it’s more and more difficult to come and go on Tourist Visas…

It’s probably hard to find a precedent as there has been a big crack down this year…

Another option would be for you apply for a Non O visa each and then renew it for 12 months every year.

For the first extension (12 months) you will need to have 800,000B each in your own bank accounts. Seasoned for two months before the extension and 3 months after. However, the balance can never drop below 400,000B.

For your second and subsequent extensions, if you can prove that you have deposited 65,000B per month in the last 12 months, you should be able to get your second renewal based on that. b

Youcan then take your 800,000B out and invest it.

I hope this helps 😃

@Marek *********

there is no specific information to be found on the website of the Royal Thai Embassy Warsaw, however the option to apply for the "tourist visa" through their E-Visa System gets mentioned. In the E-Visa pages, you need to pick the option "Tourist Visa Leisure" and choose the category "multiple entry"

@Marek *********

*** The Multi Entry Tourist Visa is valid for 6 months, to be used for an unlimited number of entries during this period. The 6-month validity begins on the day the visa is issued.

Each time you enter the country you receive a 60-day stay permit, which can be extended by 30 more days, only once, at immigration for 1900 THB.

Before the 60 days or 90 days stay permits expire, you have to leave the country, and either short by a border bounce, or longer by staying in the neighboring country for a short holiday, re-enter Thailand and activate a new 60-days stay permit

Please do not confuse this: the duration of the stay permit is not the same as the duration of the visa validity.

If you leave and re-enter as close as possible before the 6-months visa validity expires, you will receive a 60-days stay permit stamp for the last time. This brings the total possible stay to almost 8 months.

You can theoretically get another 30-days extension on immigration, which brings the total stay to almost 9 months

You can only apply for and receive the 6-month multi-entry tourist visa in the country of your residence

A 60-day single entry tourist visa, however, can be obtained at any Thai diplomatic mission around the world

If you apply for a visa in your country using the e-visa system, don't be surprised if the day of your departure is getting closer and you haven't been issued a visa, yet

The embassies and consulates usually try to issue the visa as close as possible to your departure date so you don’t lose too many days of the 6-months visa validity

There's not really any visa that's going to fit 5 months. I suppose you could get a non-OA visa but that's going to be a lot of effort that isn't really necessary.

You could get a 90-day non-O visa and then when the 90 days are up, do a border bounce where you leave Thailand and return. Then you can get a new 60-day visa exempt stamp that should get the 5 months you're looking for. You can even apply for a 30-day extension on that visa exempt entry if you need a little more time.

And starting with the non-O visa should protect you from being questioned about spending too much time in Thailand as a tourist.

@Marek *********

if you want to avoid the high financial requirements needed for the 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa and the subsequent 1-year extension of the stay permit, that reqires both of you (!) putting 800,000 THB in a Thai (!!) bank account, then your BEST options is - apply for the 6-months multi entry Tourist Visa. It might come a little expensive an application fee(175 Euro), however it is a no-frills-no-problems visatype out of which you actually could get almost 8 months of stay in Thailand - sufficient for the 5 months you wish to regularily stay