How complicated is it to get a retirement visa in thialand

Does anyone have experience with Visa agencies that claim to cover your dollar amounts needed needed for visas real or b.s.? Thanks

My DTV was approved! 🎉

Thanks to this group, I got a lot of useful information. I’d also like to share my experience here in case it helps others.

Embassy: Hanoi

Visa type: Workation

Nationality: China

Timeline

* Dec 9 – Applied

* Dec 10 – Asked for additional documents (bank statement & more proof of income)

* Dec 13 – Submitted required documents

* Dec 22 – Application approved

My biggest lesson

I did not keep the 500,000 THB in my account for 3 months. I transferred the money at the beginning of December(which I do not recommend). It’s safer to keep the funds in your account for at least 3 months.

If you’re preparing to apply, I suggest reading more posts in this group to understand the requirements better.

But I spent a lot of time organizing my portfolio and bank documents to make sure everything was logical and clear to read, and I also demonstrated a stable source of income, maybe that helped😅

Documents I submitted

Bank statement section

1. Cover letter briefly explaining what documents were included

2. Bank statement showing 500,000 THB (last 6 months)

3. Income bank account statement (last 6 months)

4. One-year fixed deposit of 500,000 THB to compensate for the short holding period

Portfolio

1. Brief self-introduction (what I do and where my income comes from)

2. Proof of financial stability:

* Monthly income records (last 6 months)

* Professional profile page

* Income platform backend statistics

3. Statement of intent

Tools I used to prepare the documents

* ChatGPT & Gemini – to structure documents

* DeepL – to translate documents into English (free trial works well)

* iLovePDF & PDFgear – to compress and edit PDF files

Hope this helps, and good luck to everyone applying! 🫶

Hi, everyone.

I just started my DTV application and was obtaining the various documents I'll need. I was thinking that my Trading 212 Cash ISA would be fine as evidence for the at least 500,000 THB for at least the past 3 months. But I'm seeing conflicting information on this and now I'm unsure. Among other savings accounts and current account, I definitely have more than the 500,000 THB, but I'm also unsure if they will accept it being spread around like this (although I don't see why not to be honest).

So two questions: 1. Is the Trading 212 Cash ISA acceptable, and 2. Is it acceptable to have several accounts as evidence all of which sum to more than the 500,000 THB (for the required minimum of 3 months)?

My partner and I (unmarried) have four children - three whom are school aged.

We each have 500kbhat in our Wise accounts and a regular monthly income each of 1,000 euros and savings of 20,000 euros in his name as well as 100,000 euros of investments (also in his name). Finances are in his name because of international politics and it’s been this way for a decade, trust is not an issue because I have access to everything so no point going down that road…

We are both building online businesses which should give us each an additional 2,000 euros a month within 6-8 months. We do not want to touch our investments for a few years at least.

We would like to live in Thailand and enroll our children in a school we have already chosen and which fits our budget… and we are depending on school to give us time to work!

But we realized recently that when applying for the DTV we may need to have 500k bhat in savings per person (1.5 million each / 3 million total) and that we are not allowed to touch that money even after receiving the visa. Is that true, and is it a strictly implemented rule in your experience ?

Are there alternatives? School enrollment visa seems to have the same financial requirements, but as we want to work online we would need the DTV, right?

We were hoping to have access to that 500k in our Wise accounts to pay extra expenses / supplement our income until it is high enough to sustain us, especially with school enrollment costs which will deplete our savings quite quickly.

I’m feeling discouraged because the plan we were building the past few months seems to have some flaws in it. Can you offer any helpful advice, insights, experience, work-arounds or options I am just not seeing?

Thank you!

Hi, I have some questions about the DTV. We are in our early 40s, retired early, and moved to Bangkok last month. We are planning to apply for the DTV soon. My spouse is a certified science teacher from the USA and just started tutoring on the Preply website. Since she is fairly new to the platform, there isn’t much income coming in yet; we assume it will be around $500 monthly. Our main source of income is from dividends, which total around $3,000 monthly. Will this be okay for a DTV application? Or does she need a more stable remote job with higher income?

Question? 90 day non-o visa expires 1/27/26… my book bank (800,000) just opened on 12/12/25… I am married to a Thai national (10 yrs), we just retired to Thailand I have everything but my visa will expire before the account ages for 2 months…. ? Do I ask for an extension on my current 90 day non-o? Or do I need to go online and apply for a new non-o and need to leave country and then return????

can i get the difference of funds from a retirement visa ''800TBH '' to a marriage visa ''400TBH''

Having read all the advice on here regarding 12 month extension of a non0 visa ( for retirement) I went to my local immigration office ( Buri Ram ) and asked for a print out of requirement . I then went home , waited for my money to mature (2 months) and then translated the print out.

Unfortunately for me I had taken my partner with me ( to translate) and I ended up with a print out for documentation to support a Thai wife ( which obviously I don’t have) .

So instead of going back to immigration again I’m asking you learned ppl if u can help .

I have…

Passport and 3 copy’s

EVisa and 3 copy’s and 3 copy’s of passport visa stamp

TM30 and 3 copy’s and partners house book ( where I’m living )

6 recent photos passport size

I will get an updated bank confirmation letter on the day I go for extension

Am I missing anything

TYIA

Has anybody had recent experience of applying for a non o visa in Vientiane, Laos? I plan to do it next month. I topped up my UK bank account with the ฿400,000 equivalent amount this month. Does this money need to be 'seasoned' the same as is the case for yearly extensions done inside Thailand? Or do they just want to see you meet the financial requirement of 400,000 baht equivalent by providing a bank statement at time of application? Thanks in advance for helpful responses.