Hello ,

I want your advice.

I am going to Thailand from Sweden on January 6 .

Then I am going for a short trip to Penang Malaysia, on January 10 to January 15 ,then going back to stay in Thailand til March 15 returning to Sweden again.

Should I apply for Tourist visa now, or can i go without visa getting 60 days as a Swede , renewed 60 days when returning from Penang Malaysia on January 15th??

Or what is your advice?

I have a retirement visa (with six months left on it) but when in Australia last week my passport was stolen and I had to get a replacement passport, so I no longer have the visa stamp. Can I simply renew my existing visa or do I have to restart the entire costly process all over again? (I have photos of the visa in lost passport etc). I have had to re-enter on a tourist visa.

I am an American citizen that holds a retirement visa in Thailand. My visa was issued from one of the immigration offices in Chiang Mai.

Do I have to renew it from this same office in CM or can I renew from another office?

I ask because my wife and I would like to visit some of the beaches around the time I will need to renew.

Thanks all!

Good day all,

Can I apply for DTV visa if I have thai wife and children living in Thailand ? I working abroad 3 month on/off. Marriage visa is taking time and hard to renew when I am at work when it's suppose to be renewed.

Hi everyone,

I have a question regarding the 500,000 THB financial requirement for the DTV. Once the DTV has been approved and issued, is this amount required to:

* remain available at all times during the 5-year validity, and/or

* be shown again at each entry into Thailand?

Or is the 500,000 THB only assessed at the time of application, with no obligation to maintain or re-prove the same balance for future entries (assuming no other red flags)?

For context: after approval, I plan to use a large portion of these funds (around 80%) for personal expenses/investments outside Thailand, meaning that at some point the full 500,000 THB equivalent would no longer be available in my bank account.

I’m not asking about visa-exempt entry, but specifically for valid DTV holders making multiple entries over the 5-year period.

If anyone has first-hand experience or official guidance on this,

I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance 🙏

Bank account and 1 year extension.

The bank account was opened by an agency. I hardly remember where the branch was (somewhere in Bangkok, China Town). I got my first 1 year extension with the agency.

My 2 questions:

1. I opened another bank account with Kashikorn Bank where I deposited 850K THB. Would that different bank account be a problem when renewing 1 year extension (26. September 2026)?

I have Yellow Book, Thai DL, Thai Pink ID, bank book.

2. My TM30 when the 1. year extension was granted, was with some address in the provinces (via an agency). The day after arrival to Thai (October 30 2025) , I submitted TM30 with my my current home address in Bangkok (Samut Prakan). That TM30 will never change.

Does that TM30 override whatever address and TM30 the agency logged in?

Trying to check if I can go on my own to Immigration for the next extension or am I locked with the agency?

Last year at my renewal of “retirement visa” I wrote a note to myself that I needed my wife to bring our blue book and the “house owner form”. I have a yellow book for the property.

1) what is the “home owner form”?

2) do I need the original issued 3-month visa that I am now seeking to extend again based on qualifying as retired?

P.S. i hate this time of year.

I live in a border area currently under evacuation notice so everything is closed. Can I do my annual renewal anywhere or must it be done in the same province or the same office (closed)?

Any advice welcome

Hello, I plan to go to Vietnam in the 10th month of my first year on a non-immigrant OA visa. I will stay in Vietnam for 3 months. When I cross back into Thailand, will my visa expire? Or will it be renewed for a second year? Thank you.

Hopefully a simple question, for a Non O retirement renewal if I used the 65k per month option can it it be in more than one transfer per month? I have sources of income that exceed the 65k in total but not individually and the individual components may vary from month to month, if ever there was a short month I could make a transfer from savings to meet any shortfall, thanks