What visa options should I consider for moving to Thailand permanently?

@Rene ********

Rule nr 1 - 99%, you cannot take work that a thai can take/ could have taken..... But offcourse if you have the money , you can buy/ rent a bar, but its not recommended...

Then I do not have an answer for you. You need to get some sort of visa if you want to be as long for a year. DTV seems not to be your match if you're not a remote worker. Try back to back for a couple times on single tourist visas plus extensions, which gives you 6 months, until probably one day they'll deny you reentering the country on a third attempt. But you can always try, I mean every officer or port of entry is different. Or get retirement visa for a year and then move to non-B.

@Rene ********

NOT legally will get a Thai work permit.

@Rene ********

Not going to find a bartending job. The bar would need to sponsor your work permit, etc. (bartending might even be on the restricted list), and if that happened, would you settle for a local/low salary (400 a month)?

@Rene ********

bartending and nursing are kinda restricted jobs for thais, I assume that you don't speak thai so very much likely you are gonna find jobs where you have to face public where 95% will be speaking thai, additionally those jobs pay very low so being an american the minimum salary to sponsor is 60k. In 60k they can find 2-3 eligible applicants for the same job. I suggest you should pick up some skills in which you can remote work, in order to keep you busy.

@Rene ********

as mentioned, look up in thailand embassy web for the various options of visa to make your planning. cheers

@Andy ***********

That is just not true, you cannot say "anyone can get one" as that is simply a false statement.

Jenny Taylor not is it true that other visas don't offer benefits lacking in the DTV, but he's clearly just a joker, as you can see above.

@Miguel ************

Of course if you are working in Thailand you need the non-B, I was speaking generally. Just about anyone on retirement or marriage visas would be better off on a DTV. Those also on ED visas, the DTV beats it. LTR has some minor advantages, but considering it's 2.5x the price and requires health insurance, those advantages quickly fade. Elite Visa is better but take a look at the price. Can you actually name any other visa which is better than DTV and give your reasons? By the way, the meme is not mine, someone else posted it after he switched from retirement visa to DTV.

@Jim *******

saying that it's the best visa there is for Thailand is quite specific, not being generic.

If you are working and living in Thailand full time and you want to stay truly legal (paying due taxes) DTV isn't even a serious option. The LTR costs roughly $150 a year over the 10 years it is valid for (a one-time payment of $1500), and easily saves you that monthly amount in taxes every single month for a normal salary – you don't even have to be a high networth individual for it to pay off.

@Miguel ************

Actually what he's saying is *basically* true. The DTV, whilst not offering as much as Elite and LTR, offers the best value for money option available, unless you're working in Thailand, in which case you'd generally need the non-B, as DTV doesn't pull it up. I now know six guys previously on non-O retirement visas who have reinvented themselves as "digital nomads" and one of them doesn't even know how to switch a computer on! It's certainly generally the best visa option these days.

@Andy ***********

sure it is, starting with doubling the actual cost of the LTR, lol. The DTV offers the best value and it’s actually the one I’m applying for, but it’s still not what he states above.

I have no time for this, people interested can compare them at the Thai Immigration Bureau website.

@Miguel ************

Thai Immigration doesn't issue LTRV or DTV, nothing to do with them. You've still a lot to learn. The LTR is basically a dead duck since the introduction of the DTV. I don't know what you're on about with doubling the cost of the LTR, but I'm sure you've got it covered! 👍

@Andy ***********

you would know if you bothered to read. He said the LTR costs 50k for five years, not ten, and even your arrogant self knows that's not true. Thai Immigration is responsible for enforcing visa laws, obviously you apply at a consulate or embassy. Now get out of my face.

@Miguel ************

Just a typo. I did state the LTR was 2.5x more expensive than the DTV. Even a jerk like you can do simple arithmetic. And you're getting the DTV? And yet you're saying it's not the best visa out? Interesting! 😂😂😂

@Jim *******

that's not what I said, as*hole. Now "fcuk" off, go learn what a typo is and spread BS elsewhere.

@Miguel ************

You've a lot to learn it seems

@Miguel ************

You can't work in Thailand on LTR visa, you need non-B, or non-O (married to a Thai) so not quite sure what you're talking about. LTR is 50,000 baht for five years, the DTV is 10,000 for five years, so 20,000 for ten years.

@Jim *******

nice one... I just hope people reading the thread that may be potentially interested in working abs living in Thailand check the visa description at the Thai immigration website instead of being mislead by that BS.

@Miguel ************

You apply for visas from overseas through embassies or consulates, not immigration

@Miguel ************

Working abs? 👍😂

Jenny Taylor Are you kidding me? I already know three people who have switched from retirement visas into DTV!