The only real issue for a retirement visa is that without a long term visa, it's quite difficult to open a bank account. So currently many people do an Non OA at their local embassy in their home country. Only issue is that you need to get health insurance.
Honestly if you qualify, LTR is the way to go. But I would not stretch myself financially to get one. .
he only did the Ed visa because he got a talking to about too many entries on visa exempt. Guess it's bad karma.... I haven't had any problems... Must be living right
it's not like it was. They can't just put the money in, get letter, and take it out. They banks won't do it anymore.
I use Bangkok Bank and they are now requiring a separate account for the 800,000. It either has to be in for 4 months or it's frozen for 4 months inorder to get the letter for immigration . Personally not a big deal, but some people are getting stressed