@Robert ********

thank you for confirming !! 🥰

@Marek *********

please ignore the Internet troll Frangipani Annie . . she has no idea about Thai visa and entry permit regulations . . . . . . . .. . You are free to apply in the E-Visa System of the Warsaw Thai Embassy for a METV every (yes, EVERY!) other year. You will find out that this is absolutely no problem. And it also is no problem for Thai Immigration

@Frangipani ******

Complete and utter nonsense!

It is ABSOLUTELY no problem when a couple visits Thailand for a CONTINUOUS five months holiday within every 365-days period, to enter Thailand EVERY OTHER YEAR on a METV

They are allowed to apply for the METV every other year! That’s a fact! There won't be any Immigration officer at the border denying an entry for someone on a METV. What they however could do is denying a last entry and the last 60-days stamp shortly before the expiry of the visa validity, which would carry the visa holder to almost 8 months of stay. There are a few reports that this has happened

This is EXACTLY what the tourist visa options have been created for

@Marek *********

there is no specific information to be found on the website of the Royal Thai Embassy Warsaw, however the option to apply for the "tourist visa" through their E-Visa System gets mentioned. In the E-Visa pages, you need to pick the option "Tourist Visa Leisure" and choose the category "multiple entry"

@Marek *********

*** The Multi Entry Tourist Visa is valid for 6 months, to be used for an unlimited number of entries during this period. The 6-month validity begins on the day the visa is issued.

Each time you enter the country you receive a 60-day stay permit, which can be extended by 30 more days, only once, at immigration for 1900 THB.

Before the 60 days or 90 days stay permits expire, you have to leave the country, and either short by a border bounce, or longer by staying in the neighboring country for a short holiday, re-enter Thailand and activate a new 60-days stay permit

Please do not confuse this: the duration of the stay permit is not the same as the duration of the visa validity.

If you leave and re-enter as close as possible before the 6-months visa validity expires, you will receive a 60-days stay permit stamp for the last time. This brings the total possible stay to almost 8 months.

You can theoretically get another 30-days extension on immigration, which brings the total stay to almost 9 months

You can only apply for and receive the 6-month multi-entry tourist visa in the country of your residence

A 60-day single entry tourist visa, however, can be obtained at any Thai diplomatic mission around the world

If you apply for a visa in your country using the e-visa system, don't be surprised if the day of your departure is getting closer and you haven't been issued a visa, yet

The embassies and consulates usually try to issue the visa as close as possible to your departure date so you don’t lose too many days of the 6-months visa validity

@Marek *********

if you want to avoid the high financial requirements needed for the 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa and the subsequent 1-year extension of the stay permit, that reqires both of you (!) putting 800,000 THB in a Thai (!!) bank account, then your BEST options is - apply for the 6-months multi entry Tourist Visa. It might come a little expensive an application fee(175 Euro), however it is a no-frills-no-problems visatype out of which you actually could get almost 8 months of stay in Thailand - sufficient for the 5 months you wish to regularily stay

@Brian ********

the DEFINITE answer is NO, you can't. You can't even get it opened through agents. As a "digital nomad"or being on the DTV "soft power", Thai government expects you to retrieve the funds for your living expensesin Thailand on the ATM using your foreign credit card. Saythank you to me and share my reply to others who are in the same melee

@Mick ********

you wrote "What would be the visa I need to stay the longest time without renewing??" . . . . . . . . . put 400,000 or 800,000 THB in a Thai bank account in your sole name, apply for the "1-year Extension of the Temporary Stay", and you can get a yearlong stay permit issued, that, if you buy a multi re-entry permit for it for 3800 Baht, allows you to enter and exit Thailand for unlimited times withing the duration of the one-year stay permit. It's easier if you use an agent to help you with each step and doesn't cost an arm and a leg

@Kenneth ******

that's a lot of slack for a 25-years period 😂

@Mick ********

Mike, you being building a house or not, doesn't cut no ice for your visa situation. You have got two options to achieve a one-year stay permit in Thailand, which you can renew every year. You can get this one-year stay permit issued based on marriage to a Thai wife, OR you can get it issued based on being over 50 years old. The first option requires you got a minimum of 400,000 THB in a Thai bank account in your sole name. The second option requires you to hold a minimum of 800,000 THB in your Thai bank account. In order to be able to get a bank account opened, you need to enter Thailand on a Non-Imm-O visatype which you aquired in your home country from the E-Visa online system of the Thai Embassy London