What visa options are available for expats planning to move to Thailand in 2026?

@Ron *******

I suppose it depends which route your going to go down, do you want to do it yourself?? Or are you going to use an agent?? If you want to do it yourself, and you have everything in place, money in the bank etc etc, I believe it's a very simple process, to apply for the initial non O, based on marriage or retirement, through the Thai e-visa website in your home country, before you come to Thailand, if you want to do the initial non O in the country yourself, some immigration offices, will make it very difficult or impossible to do it yourself, and they will suggest you apply at the thai consulate in Vientiane Lao, and then after 60 days, return to them for the 12 months extension based on marriage or retirement, if you decide to use an agent it is very easy, if your entitled you can just arrive on a 60 day visa exempt, and extend that for 30 days, that gives the agent enough time to complete the whole process, everything will be done for you. I'm no expert, that's to the best of my knowledge, if anything is wrong hopefully someone will correct me.

@Asim *********

I'm not sure what you mean. You apply for it in your home country and you use it to enter Thailand

Eric morse Assisted living property , no maintenance , no voids uk government backed guarantee 25yr 10% index linked and paid per month totally hassle free ideal imo .

@John ******

such as?

@Robin *******

hell I would love to get the 5.5% im getting today that ends on sept 1st forever.... wonder if I can stick it in another country bank?

@Graham *****

of course you can but you have to have planned that for a year. If your embassy or consulate gives you an income statement it's even easier.

I did say the next year's extension...

@Robin *******

I would highly suggest just having two Thai bank accounts. And using one of them for only 800k with a couple extra 1000s to cover the yearly fee for a while.

@Robin *******

Yes, if you just can “forget” the 800K baht for a while your visa and yearly permission to stay is secured. The day you’re receive your pension or are able to show proof of twelve months consecutive transfers of 65K baht a month you can switch to the income method and your 800K baht is again free to use.