I am an American and have had a retirement visa for 3 years. I am actually retired but tired of going back to immigration every year. I have no issues with leaving the country once a year. I am retired but have no issues with taking a cooking class if required.

I am getting ready to retire to Thailand early next year to live with my long term Thai partner in Phetchabun. We will be living in a house currently owned by her brother and will buy this house in her name as soon as I sell my house in the UK. I will be in Bangkok on holiday shortly and am looking for recommendations for someone there that my partner and I can go and talk to get advice on various issues. They must be able to talk Thai and English for us both to understand what we need to do.

Hello all. American and wanting to retire to Thailand next year. I’ll be 62 and money will not be an issue. Retirement fund and social security. My question is…will I have any issue being able to live in Thailand with a felony conviction when I was 16 years old in 1980? Not even a traffic citation since. Degreed professional in medical field for 40 years. Plan to have the 800k baht in a thai bank and monthly of 100k for living expenses.

Appreciate your input.

For someone over 50 looking to retire in Thailand, what are the pro and cons of the new DTV and the Retirement Visa?

My wife and I plan to retire in Thailand early next year. I am now sorting out all the details.

What is a good way to actually transfer funds to a bank for meeting the deposit requirements? I assume my current bank would do that, but I think there are pretty steep fees involved. Is that what most people do or is there a better way? I am in the US BTW.

Morning. I could do with a bit of advice. I intend to apply for the METV after I retire in October. I want to spend a few months in Thailand to see if is definitely the right place for me to retire. As much as we have the dream, reality could be a different matter. If all goes well, can I then apply for the Non O VISA whilst there on the METV, maybe on the last 60+30 days of the visa?

Retirees in Thailand,

Did you become a tax resident in Thailand?

I heard that if you stay in Thailand more than

180 days, then you become a tax resident?

is that true?

Hi All, I'm prepping for my retirement to Thailand, I will be transferring £20k to my Bangkok Bank a/c but have NEVER transferred such a large sum internationally before, is SWIFT the best option?

I am in Perth, WA, Australia at present. Any visa takes 4+ weeks from here as there is no Thai Consulate in Perth and we have to apply online and send passport by mail and then wait for its return. Also you must have to have Air flights booked for the application ( how do you do that when you don’t know when your passport will be returned!!)

So now I think to go on a Tourist Exempt if so can I apply for a non-immigrant multiple entry O_A visa ( one year) in Bangkok? So I then have tome to secure a permanent address, and apply for Retirement Visa. I have the funds.

Thankyou for your advice.

I'm in the process of assembling the necessary requirements for a retirement visa. Two questions:

(1) Immigration's requirement is to have 65,000 THB coming into your bank account for the previous 12 months. For the last 12 months I have had over 65,000 THB coming in to my Thai bank account every month *except one*. The previous month to the missing month I had 200,000 THB coming in. When I work out an average for the year it comes to around 85,000 THB per month. Will this meet immigration's requirements of 65,000 THB per month? Do they look at the average or each month in turn?

(2) The requirement for a retirement visa is to apply while holding a Non O. At present I hold a Non-B as I am working. Will this matter?

Thanks, Andrew