It'll solve everything, what like it did previously when it was thirty days only.?

@Robin ********

Mr too these days, my Thai partner pays all the bills. All I have to pay for is beer, some food, petrol etc.

I used to go to the water companies office in Udon Thani once a month to pay my water bill in cash. Same with electricity, went to the power companies office to pay cash.

You own two houses in Koh Samui and your saying retirement visa is too expensive, hmmm,🤔.

I survived there adequately on 15,000 THB a month, but I don't have rent, electricity or water to pay and stay up country in Isaan farming community with zero crime and smiling happy poorish farm people. They can keep the likes of Pattaya for me thankyou.

Get married to a Thai National and let them deal with it all, simple 😁

@Artis *******

Multiple entry tourist visa is £150, which you can stretch to get nine months in Thailand. So the £300 for the DTV is good value, as long as you have everything else in place.

@Artis *******

But you have to show you have 500,000 THB equivalent in cash in a bank account to qualify for the DTV visa, plus have to prove if your a remote worker, evidence of your employer/s, payments into your bank account from your employer/s. To qualify for the DTV on the basis of soft power, you also have to show equivalent of 500,000 THB in your bank account. Proof of some sort of training, Muay Thai, cooking courses etc and the training business has to be registered with the Thai business Chamber of Commerce.

@AllSabaai *****

Wish there was controls in the UK like the Thais have. The UK is being invaded by young Muslim men with no passports or id and get in and are given free hotel full board accomodation, plus £50 a week spending money and free mobiles and other things like free driving lessons etc. Problem is none of this is FREE, the British taxpayers are compulsory paying for it all and British people in some cases go hungry. Thailand have the right principles, look after their own people only, but welcome legal foreign visitors.

Need at least a work permit they reckon.