@Will ***********

that's not true either. If your country has a DTA with thailand. Under almost all scenarios no tax is going to be due as thailand has a formal signed DTA which is a legal binding document

@Dave ********

did you read your countries dual tax agreement with thailand?? Guessing not. There was a utube lots of people talking about with a thai tax attorney. Seems many didn't pickup that he says many times, well you have to go to your countries dual tax agreement. Thailand had DTAs with almost 90 countries currently. Thailand is pulling all the stops out to get people there. The idea they're going to break 90 DTAs and also create a mass exodus at the same time doesn't even make sense

one has to look at their countries "dual tax agreement" to have any clue to that answer.... and no after 180 days it's not a foregone conclusion you have to pay Thai tax... that's just fake news, many like to repeat saying. you may have some paperwork, but unlikely any Thai taxes are due.

@Todd ********

I've used wide foe years. So ok let's do this again. You walk across the street and get hit by a car or bike. Hospital wants more than you can insta wise via your atm card. Hospital ok we'll wait until you can drag yourself to an atm every day for a few weeks until you have some funds. Get real your 1000s of miles from home and no local bank account..why!! That's just insane.

so you're there living in Thailand, one day for whatever reason, you have an emergency, and need some instant $$. then for whatever reason, you can't get instant funds via Wise, or the amount is over the threshold, where you need to wait 3-4 days to clear, and you're in deep dodo. If someones going to live in Thailand, they really should have a local bank account.

why would anyone want to get a retirement visa, and not have a banking account locally?? doesn't even make sense, but yes, everything through an agent is going to cost you $$...

@Ken **********

at least for Social Security, that's a no brainer for a govt department to verify, private company pensions quite another. they should at least verify Social Security. For US all that needed is sign a consent form, granting them to check, nothing more.

Shouldn't be an issue. Thai immigration has copies of any visas issued, and when you renew your passport, you do get your original back, only with a few hole punches in it. just take that along with you. We currently have 10 year Chinese multi-entry visas, one of the 1st in US to get them. Right after we got them, we were stopped by US customs, on the way out, on the boarding ramp; they said no issue, just they'd never seen them before and passed the passports around their group.

Also depends on what country you are from. From what I've read online there are certain countries US, England, AUS, maybe others that the embassy refuses to give the required documents for its citizens to be able to use the income method. Why they refuse, no idea, although I've asked... gotta be some justification, other than they just stopped doing it!

What category did you use to apply for DTV and which embassy in US did you use?