What type of visa should I apply for to move between Thailand and England as a retired expat?

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I've been doing this for a couple of years, using the e-visa, for 60 days, getting an occasional extension or trip to Cambodia, when necessary for a total of 90 days. Never had a problem, since I went back to USA, for 2- 3 months or so. Recently, I got DTV, which allows for stays of 6 months.

You can get a retirement multi entry visa.

Easy enough to do a multiple entry tourist ( multiple entry part is important )

You can stretch that into 9 months and come and go as you wish

For you, given how frequently you will return to the UK, I would recommend the Non-OA visa which is a 12 month multiple entry visa. It can only be obtained in your home country and requires insurance, police check etc. You can get almost 2 years out of it by timing a re-entry just before it expires with a new year of insurance and you will need a multiple re-entry permit for the 2nd year. It doesn't require any money in a Thai bank

Alternatively the 90 day Non-O visa followed by a 12 month extension, no insurance or police check required but it does mean you need to put 800k in a Thai bank and isn't quite as flexible as you need to be in Thailand for the extension and will need re-entry permits for both the 90 day visa and the 12 month extension

OA: forces you to pay for health insurance - probably another than you already have.

NonO retirement would be (and was) my way: forces you to have a Thai bank account for poof of 800k or 65k monthly.

After I deregistered from Switzerland I shopped around for a good international health insurance to cover Thailand and my travels.

OA visa sounds good for you

Guys I'm in that same position, retired and considering country hopping around Asia. Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Isn't there another retirement visa that you don't have to put the 800K in the bank. The other one where you have to show a monthly income of $2k?

Something to be aware of if you stay in thailand for greater than 6 months in any one year (doesn't have to be all in one visit) then you become a tax resident in thailand. As you are over 50 you could apply for a non o retirement visa that gives you 90 days in thailand which can be extended by a year and then yearly if you meet some financial requirements ( 800k baht in a thai bank account), you can apply for this on the thai embassy visa website through the London embassy before you travel. You can also cuttently get a 60 day visa exemption entry into thailand (although they are considering reducing this to 30 days) and extend this in thailand at a local immigration office for 30 days for 1900 baht, giving you 90 days. The caution with this is that over time they may not allow you to enter as you are using it too often. You can also apply for a 60 day tourist visa through the evisa online system and again extend 30 days inside of thailand. There are a number of other options but they start to require more funds or complications like the LTR visa the non oa retirement visa and the elite visa

can't really say it with certainty if you can repeat this mode by doing visa-exempt entries. It depends on the mood and discretion of the Immigration officer at the borders, how he will interpret your stamp history. I reckon the safest way would be a start out with a 90-days Non-Imm-O visa, park 800,000 THB on a Thai bank account, get the "1-year Extended Stay Permit based on retirement" and buy a 3800.- Baht multi re-entry permit for it. With this "retirement extension" you are completely free of headache to exit and re-enter Thailand at any given date during the 1-year stay permit. And you can re-apply for the Extension every year. I am doing this for the recent 17 years and it hasn't ever been easier than that