Thanks...looks a more efficient way of using ones funds especially if travel eases and can get through the first year to show 12 months inc...thanks again.
If you transfer the 65K how do you stay for the first year to show a years income, and do they need proof it's come from a pension etc and not just being withdrawn from savings? You could send the surplus back to the UK and reinvest each year?
I didn't think you could get a retirement visa outside of Thailand at the moment, the only availability (diplomat, business etc excluded) was an elite visa or the single entry tourist visa, also a lot have said this can't be changed once in Thailand?