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@Bra****

explained nor all offices will accept foreign deposits.

Safest practice deposit 400k and forget it exists.

Eliminate any chance of failure.

Lee Greenwood

@Stuart ********

is correct.

You do not get a 1 year visa in country for retirement.

You get a 90 day non-o based on being over 50 yrs. Old.

Then you apply for 1yr extensions, each and every year after.

Yes some offices will allow a joint account.

Second option after completing the first 1 yr extension, ask if your local office will allow one spouse to "change the reason for extension" and go "dependant" on the other.

Thus only requiring the 800k for one spouse.

Colin Dorman what you can do is.

Change your reason for 1yr extension from nonb "working" to Thai wife.

You then can use a WP and if you lose your job, you can cancel WP AND then use 400k in the bank.

*You can also change jobs without problem if it's at least 3 months before next extension to prove the income.

Basically you don't lose your "visa/extension" if you are not working.

This is a great advantage to having "thai wife" extension.

Talk to your local office for the exact process there.

RubyTangerine9693 a real estate agency is reporting this for ONE developer.

Thai Immigration has not.

This sounds like some type of agency Visa sales gimmick.

Possibly tied to the

"Elite Visa" company.

False news.

Visa always required.

There is no new visa.

90 day validity to "use" to enter.

Non-o 90 days given whenever you enter.

You cannot get a non-o "retirement" dependant in country and most?( if not all embassies ) have stopped issuing them.

Some embassies will do a dependant visa IF the primary obtains an OA visa.

Neither can be done in Thailand.

The dependant visa for "retirement " is fundamentally dead.

IF you are able to have another visa and extension, then the second year you may be able to "change the reason for extension" to dependant but not all offices will allow it and in the time it would take to get to that point it may not be available at all.

You must have a transfer every month without fail.

Best advice transfer yourself in Feb.

Averaging doesn't count.

Any cash equivalent is fine.

You should have no issue, but every entry is up to the officer you are in front of.