If you got 2 metv per year costing £300,wouldn’t it be better than jumping thru hoops trying to get a retirement visa probably work out cheaper & you wouldn’t have to leave 800,000 baht in your account

What’s the advantage & disadvantage over this

You may have read my previous post about entry into Thailand. So now had time to process and visit immigration.

Next move.

The IO at the airport said get a wife visa which I believe is an O visa. This is problematic as I will not have 800,000 in for two months, more like two weeks.

The IO at my local office confirmed this but mentioned 400,000 but think this is an O-A visa which I do not want.

Now the METV. This would be perfect and I can meet all the requirements. I guess I would need to leave Thailand to apply. But would having a Thai wife prevent this.?

Basically an METV would allow me to leave and renter Thailand to give me 150 days I need

To apply for an METV, if required to leave Thailand, would Vietnam be OK.

Finally thoughts on visiting a visa agent. Would it help.

Thanks in advance

Well, that was hard work completing the METV. Hopefully it’s approved or £150 down the drain.

I plan to have four trips per year to Thailand each year for around five weeks.

I am a condo owner.

Would you expect me to have any issues entering the country.

Or would it be wise to get a DTV at this time.

A concern I have is the 90 day reporting as I may be out of country at times for up the 120 days and would that cause an issue.

How to manage cancel a valid visa? I have a METV issued by Beijing, and they said they cannot cancel it. But I want to apply DTV now…

Metv applied pending aproval uploaded additinal documents ... fly 15th ... but im thinking thjs may not come back and i lose flight applied from london ten days ago additional dicuments loaded 2 days after ?

Hello,

I hold a METV and i Applied for DTV in Jakarta and the embassy asked me to contact the issuing embassy to cancel the METV. I already contacted the issuing embassy and they say they can’t cancel the visa. I’ve seen some people managed to cancel their METV. Could you please share how you managed that? Could you please share what proof of voided visa looks like so i can share with the issuing embassy?

Don’t know if anyone can help but if you can thank you. Is there a way you can come to Thailand for 6 months a year. My wife and I would like to do this from the UK.

We are both retired 😊👍

In a previous post of mine it was mentioned that getting a METV raises suspicions to the immigration officer if arriving before on visa exempt. Is that correct? Am I actually better coming again on a visa exemption? I thought with an METV it would be a breeze. Will be visiting from the UK , January -March (60 days) and May-July(60 days).

Possible to obtain a new METV 3 months after you have used the last extension on a prior METV ?