{"id":37147,"date":"2014-07-15T00:56:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T04:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/?p=37147"},"modified":"2020-08-18T13:07:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:07:58","slug":"how-to-obtain-a-retirement-visa-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/blog\/how-to-obtain-a-retirement-visa-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Obtain a Retirement Visa in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>STEP 1: OBTAIN A NON-IMMIGRANT VISA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Passport (at least one year remaining before expiration)<\/li>\n<li>You must be holding nationality or permanent residence of the country of application<\/li>\n<li>Proof of Funds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>STEP 2: OBTAIN A ONE-YEAR RETIREMENT VISA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Must be 50 years old and above<\/li>\n<li>Passport (signed copies of each page)<\/li>\n<li>Non-Immigrant Visa<\/li>\n<li>Departure Card TM.6<\/li>\n<li>Proof of meeting Financial Requirements<\/li>\n<li>Thai Bank Book (original)<\/li>\n<li>Letter from your Thai Bank<\/li>\n<li>Three(3) 4\u00d75 cm photos, with full face taken<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>STEP 3: BRING YOUR HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO THAILAND<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You will be given six months from your entry to Thailand to bring in your household items from your country. If your permit grants you to stay for a year, these items will not be taxed. Otherwise, they will be taxed at a rate of 20% for import duty and 7% value added tax.<\/p>\n<p>However, the deadline can be flexible. If you expect your items to arrive past the six-month deadline, you may inform the Customs two months before the deadline to request for an extension.<\/p>\n<p><i>Disclaimer: This is not applicable on shipments arriving in some ports especially in Bangkok.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>STEP 4: OBTAINING A RE-ENTRY PERMIT<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Most people misunderstand the different concepts of \u201cExtension of Stay\u201d and \u201cRe-entry Permit\u201d. Sometimes mistaken for each other, you must understand that these are two different things, both of which you would need during your stay.<\/p>\n<p>The Extension of Stay is simply the controlling date. Everything else is dependent on this. Everything is invalidated when your Extension of Stay expires. On the other hand, the Re-entry Permit\u2019s validity is subject to the validity of your Extension of Stay. However, leaving Thailand without a re-entry permit automatically invalidates your extension of stay.<\/p>\n<p><b>STEP 5: REPORTING YOUR STAY EVERY 90 DAYS and VISA EXPIRATION<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You are required to report to the Immigration Police every 90 days if you are on a long term extension of stay. Persons holding a multiple entry visa will simply depart Thailand and renew their extension of stay after each 90 day entry.<\/p>\n<p>If you cannot obtain your extension inside Thailand, you will have to get a new non-immigrant visa from a Thai Embassy or Consulate abroad.<\/p>\n<p><b>MEETING THE FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR A RETIREMENT VISA:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Financial Requirements are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bank Account showing THB 800,000<\/li>\n<li>Monthly income of at least THB 65,000<\/li>\n<li>Combination (Bank Account + Income x 12 = THB 800,000)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thaiembassy.com\/retire\/retire.php\">http:\/\/www.thaiembassy.com\/retire\/retire.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEP 1: OBTAIN A NON-IMMIGRANT VISA Requirements: Passport (at least one year remaining before expiration) You must be holding nationality or permanent residence of the country of application Proof of Funds STEP 2: OBTAIN A ONE-YEAR RETIREMENT VISA Requirements: Must be 50 years old and above Passport (signed copies of each page) Non-Immigrant Visa Departure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":37136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[5132,2274,1712,29094,1922,29093,29107,17409,2545,2662,29103,28517,5588,8851,4506,12899,29066,2412,29098,2376],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/The-Why-And-How-Of-Retiring-In-Thailand.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37157,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37147\/revisions\/37157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37147"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=37147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}