@Erik ******

Chang, Leo or maybe Singha. 🤣

@Jim *******

I’ve been self-employed many years so my final pay retirement pay is approximately zero. All in all I will probably just touch the 65k limit, but that’s before tax. 20% is taken by the gods of the treasury dept.

However, while being self-employed I saved enough money to live off. The 800k method suits me just fine.

@Leo *****

Too bad. Just write it off and tell your spouse it’s a guarantee for her after you die. She’ll love you more and will worry a bit less about her future.

I’ll just put 1M in the bank and consider this my access fee for staying and living in Thailand.

@Steve ******

You meant ;)

@Neil ********

Yeah. Those forward tickets, for a few Euro they give you a ticket which remains valid for a few days.

@Neil ********

Before we got married my wife visited me. She had no job, no money, no property, no business. But I knew that you can’t stretch the first visit. So she came for approx 2 months and I bought a ‘fake’ ticket to Thailand to evidence that we would fly to Thailand together at the end of her stay. That worked fine. 😉

I believe you can compensate the lack of funds in the bank if you can show monthly income coming in to the bank. Maybe someone can explain…

Approx 365, unless you go multiple times per day.

@Oleg **********

Yeah. I see you changed your comment. ;)

Marriage extension versus retirement extension:

+ Less money required in the bank

- More paperwork

+/- Requires assistance from wife

+ Can get work permit

I’m going the marriage extension route soon. If I can obtain a work permit for what I want to to do then I’ll stay on this method. If the work permit is denied, next year I’ll be on retirement extension.

The required 800k funds will be in the bank on day 1, no matter which visa I will request. Just to make sure.