@Patrick ***********

I did suggest in my response that the maths over the long term just might be a bit more.

Considering the hassles that I have seen with many posts over the years regarding this exact issue is that’s it’s worth it for the Thai Elite. Also gives independence ?

Maths almost the same over the long term with the moneys on travel’s to embassy’s abroad, all the cost associated with traveler, the amount of time on paperwork, interviews, lots of people asking all kinds of too personal questions annually.

All that just seems to disappear with Thai Elite.

Again this is just the trend in many conversations about these topics over the years that I have noticed 🤔

What about just paying for Thai Elite?

Rational being spending some cash to make most of these headache disappear 🤷‍♂️

Thoughts?

If insurance requirement isn’t cheap and easy there won’t be a tourism industry left.

My friend she did the quarantine in the room for 14 days. No walking around or leaving the room. The food looked horrible. Extra food was very expensive.

I saw comments that Thai Elite is doing the 20 years with the 6 months extra for 1 million THB

Could be worth it over the long haul. Sounds expensive for sure but the service you get is worth the expense.

That way no problems. All the other visa issues for the most part goes away, marriage visa is just a hassle with the paperwork that has to be done every year ! So many changes in rules. What’s correct today is wrong tomorrow then correct again next week.

Also the dubious visa agents 🙄 not all but some.

Educational but for how long ?

Volunteer? Again for how long and how is that working out for people ?

I believe that you can weigh your options Thai elite is money the value is connivence. Other ways might be a bit cheaper over the long term as far as the money aspect but where you pay is with the stress, uncertainty, trips to the alphabet soup of government agency’s and visa numbers.

Think on the Thai Elite aspect.

Good Luck 🍀

@Brian *******

Marriage seems like the worse option with all the annual visa renewal requirements such as pictures of the martial bed, neighbors confirming of the marriage actually exists;stacks of photos just so much paperwork involved it’s not even worth getting married. Just live together.