Get a good visa agent. The amount of misinformation on Facebook is tremendous.

I did it and didn't have a six month lease, but I was using a visa agent who knew what to do

Contact a visa expert

Much easier than retirement visa!

@Angelo **********

us is already taxing me on my income

@Andy ***********

mass exodus only if they are which i am betting we will be fine

@Graham ******

yes there will be a mass exodus gor those of us who are not married to thai people and then maybe some of them too

I will just wait it out for now and see how it unfolds. We all have choice. I chose Thailand over spain and Portugal primarily because of tax laws. If they tax me, i have other choices and will be gone. I love thailand and it is not the only tropical paradise.

The confusing thing is what do they mean by money brought into Thailand.

I have a thai bank account with the required amt of money. I do not touch it and i do not add to it

I get cash out of atm. Will atm money count? I understand it does not but i do not know if that is true

@Chuck ********

i just learned about the interest rate they offer. I was looking to move my saving from my american back to a cd or something to get more interest and decided wize was giving me the same interest with no limitations.

I am since used it once to pay for a doctor bill. I use charles schwab account to withdraw money from atm because they reimburse atm fees until they figure out your living overseas and then they stop it based on everything I have heard. But for now I'll continue to use them and when they stop, I will move all that money over to Wise and use my Wise card to withdraw cash.