@Olav *********

what connection ?

@Tod ********

verify please as in all my years here I have never heard about people on a non imm O getting a work permit ?

@Olav *********

next time when you at immigration tell them you do not need their visa because you pay tax here and see how hard they laugh at you. My friend to become a Thai permanent resident you need to comply with the immigration law which stipulates how and when you can become a permanent residence. Part of this process is to pay tax here but that is only a small part of the process to obtain a PR. if you have tax residency status you still need to apply for visas or extensions to sray in the country. When you obtain a PR you do not need visas or extensions anymore.

David Broadfoot a non imm O is a visa granted to different people and they granted for different reasons. 1. They can be granted to people older than 50 years of age the so called retirement visa 2. They can be granted to a foreigner mareied o a Thai national 3. Hey can be granted to a foreigner that has Thai children. A foreigner with a non imm O visa based on marriage can apply for a wp. Not now, never in the past and not for the near future can or could a foreigner apply for a work permit with a non imm O based on being over 50 years . Whoever told you that talks BS. You are confusing people with wrong information.

David Broadfoot you cannot work on a retirement visa. You are wrong.

David Broadfoot I was setting out the different types of visas and trying to define a tourists vs a permanent resident. The student in Oz that work does not become a pr because he/she work. They stay a foreign student that under the countrys laws are allowed to work.

David Broadfoot wrong wrong wrong. You cannot work in Thailand with a retirement visa. You can work with a longstay visa based on being married to a Thai national.

@Olav *********

immigration law, read it.

@Olav *********

your confused about tax and immigration laws. According to the tax law you are correct but according to immigration laws not. The visa that most called a retirememt visa, non imm O or OA is a longstay visa that can be issued for periods from 3 months to 1 year and in case of the non imm O can be issued to people not on retirement.

@Garrett **********

yes according to Thai law. What do you want such a person to be? You have choice tourist, migrant worker, foreign investor, foreign student, parental visa holder, permanent residence or citizen ? That is the normal choice through out the world not only in Thailand.