Mostly because it rules out morning flights. While you can often turn it over in an hour, you need to allow three. So if you’re getting on a ten hour flight after that, getting it at the airport may limit your flight options or rule out budget flights.

I believe assisted living places have support for this and can arrange medical visas, or you could buy an elite visa long enough to cover your remaining lifespan if you have the means. Either way you will still need some support from the assisted living place to keep filing your 90 day or one year reports of where you’re living, but from what I’ve read they’re used to that.

The usual way to do it is first get a three month retirement visa from home country, which does not require funds deposited in Thailand before arrival. Then come to Thailand straight away, open a bank account and transfer the cash deposit, let it season for two months, then use that to apply for a twelve month extension of stay before your three month visa is up.

TM30 is a landlord responsibility, but you are reliant on it. It doesn’t matter how formal or informal the arrangement is, you don’t need to be on the lease, but the landlord does need to lodge one within 24 hours of a foreigner’s arrival and they have to give you a copy on request. In practice, if they have never had a foreigner stay before, you may need to prompt it by asking for the copy. In practice there is no consequence for them if they lodge late, and they often have to lodge new ones to correct mistakes (since there is no “edit” function) so you shouldn’t have any problems even if they haven’t done it yet and have to do it for you now - Immigration sees ones with very recent lodgement dates due to error corrections all the time. But you do need to get it from them. If there are errors on the form, like a wrong arrival date or something, don’t try to correct it yourself (because it’s not your form), take it to immigration as is. If the error is serious enough that it needs fixing, Immigration will tell them what to fix.

When we looked into this, preliminary discussions with a visa agent suggested that basically if your evidence is your tax return and it adds up to the required amount of income in the “income” fields of your tax return, it counts. They don’t care what happens in the “deduction” fields or what that turns into for net taxable income. Now that was one agent’s statement getting on for a year ago so don’t take as gospel, but it’s an indicative comment you could cross check with other agents.

Any type is okay. For mine, I bought a one off tourist prepaid plan and then added on a regular prepaid plan after that in the app. For my husband we just bought and activated a SIM and just put 20 thb on to be able to test it in store, then bought a prepaid plan in the app. Both worked fine later with banking. Do make sure you take your passport - they connect it to your passport number and I believe that can matter later for some immigration and work permit purposes (where relevant).

@Jared *******

That sounds good enough to me, but I wonder if they want to see it in an address block at the top as well? I don’t know though, just hunting for possibilities.

PeaceandrainfallsI just spent nearly 200K baht bringing my cats here, and 100kg of baggage allowance that was mostly their stuff, so we’ll just be ridiculous together! Good luck!

Does the redacted part include it being addressed to the embassy as requested? If it doesn’t have an addressee, is “to whom it may concern,” etc it might not meet their requirements.

PeaceandrainfallsThey’re people who arrange for movement of things and cargo, including legal formalities where applicable (animals, dangerous goods, crossing borders etc) and also including transfers between types of transport where a change is required.