@Bobby *******

But only next month. Cause you actually need to be 50 years for that. They prefer old people in Thailand.

Another advise would be to (politely as you can, ideally bringing a native speaker) teach them their own rules: As more often than not, they just don't know them / or get them themselves, sadly.

I like your question and thinking. Cause indeed, the requirements for the same outcome can be very different throughout Thailand and whatever immigration office you use. That is deeply flawed and unfortunate, but an actual truth. Unfortunately, there isn't an absolute answer to that, as particular requirements and procedures tend to change even at the same offices. So all I can advice is: 1) Start checking at the immigration office responsible to where you are staying now. And IF they make it exta and too complicated, move to another amphoe / province, stay a night and shop for more reasonable circumstances. It is in my view one of the biggest issues in Thailand, that they interpret feudalism in a way that every little sheriff can change anything to their liking, even though the underlying law and regulations of a certain visa or extension is the same. Just something we need to deal with - or better yet, to circumvent by choosing the more advantageous place.

@Karan **************

Good enough for me. But not sufficient to sort out your Thai equivalent to the designation Farang.

@Karan **************

Sorry about that. But I am sure the Thais have another nice word for people of your nationality or ethnic group as well. I might help you out with the right term if you enlighten us with the interesting fact what part of the world you were born in. After all, this is a group for helping people out. 😉

@Karan **************

And you are?

@Nigel *********************

I am not sure that a flight ticket from one’s home country is a hard requirement for an eVisa. But I am also not saying they could not ask for it. They are full of surprises sometimes.

@Brandon ***********

True. Forgot about that one.

@Mike ******

Not sure all sources of income will be considered for the LTR. In fact, I doubt it. As for the Work Remote LTR category the particularly ask for a work contract with publicly listed company for example, when almost all remote workers make freelance contract income from VC financed startups and the like. As so often, they don’t get their desired target group - and also don’t seem to ask them / include them when coming up with new wild ideas. TIT.

You would no happen to make north of USD 80k / year, would you? Then the to be launched LTR visa - with its only partly sensible category of “Wealthy Pensioner” could apply to you. But they will likely mess this whole new visa up further in the end. So that would be if the wait and see sort.