mudcat

I doubt that the TM.95 is intended to be used only at One Stop Service Center, as the notice of when to review states: Any alien who has been granted a Long - Term Resident Visa (LTR Visa) and permitted to temporarily stay in the Kingdom must notify a competent official at a local or central immigration office of his/her address every year.

Sorry about attaching the wrong TM - here is the TM.95/ TM.95 blank.pdf

Thanks aublumberg. Here is the TM.95 extracted as a one-page acrobat pdf TM.94 blank.pdf

A helpful resource for U.S. citizens is here along with a Thai translation: https://th.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/death-of-a-u-s-citizen/

The U.S. embassy stated that for them to direct the hospital to release the body after a post mortem they require to see an indication from the deceased they wish to burned here. We added that to our Thai last wills and include it with other identifying documents including our U.S. wills in a to-go envelope at home, with a niece, and in our car's glovebox Remember to make sure that a dual national spouse is well identified otherwise getting the Consular Report of Death will be more difficult as the authorities in the U.S. expect to see that before dealing with the estate.

Just to confirm, I asked my BOI Sherpa if I could delete all my documents and he stated it was ok.

I believe that this is where, because I had attempted to delete and re-order my documents which lost them. I re-submitted my pension letters, backed them up with a tax-transcript from 2021. I have now deleted all of my personally identifiable documents with the exception of the bio-page of my passport which I first submitted.

Received my passport stamps on Halloween (October 31st) on a trip to Bangkok to celebrate our tenth anniversary on November 1st. My timeline: August 24th - Applied for new U.S. passport September 14th - Received new passport - expiring September 1, 2032. September 15th - Transferred Stamps to new passport September 16th - Applied for LTR visa - Wealthy Pensioner October 4th - Preliminary approval - request for more documents October 18th - Qualification approval letter October 31st - Stamps entered Visa expires on September 16, 2032 Permission to stay expires on October 30, 2027 Re-entry permit expires on October 30, 2027 Notification due on October 30, 2023 I assume that a five-year re-qualification will result in a permission to stay expires when my passport expires on September 1, 2032. There have been questions about where the notification of address needs to submitted if have been in the Kingdom for one-year - when I questioned the immigration officer taking my payment receipt and stamping my passport she was adamant that notification needed to happen at the One Stop Service immigration office, but when I looked at the notice in my passport (attached) it stated: NOTICE NOTIFICATION FOR AN ALIEN WHO HAS BEEN STAYING IN THE KINGDOM LONGER THAN 1-YEAR Any alien who has been granted a Long - Term Resident Visa (LTR Visa) and permitted to temporarily stay in the Kingdom must notify a competent official at a local or central immigration office of his/her address every year. Not sure what form to submit a one-year notification - maybe there is a one-year form somewhere - if anyone has found one or had one supplied by BOI please post it as a pdf for others.

I successfully substituted my U.S. IRAs (Individual Retirement Accounts) with my broker as demonstration of assets >$100,000 for medical expenses (Option 3). I maintain Thai health insurance with Pacific Cross to protect my assets, not to qualify for a visa. The Deposit option allows me to tailor my health insurance with the goal of protecting myself, my family, and my assets today and in the future. I maintain other forms of insurance - Social Security Part B and long term care insurance should I return to the U.S., which I have no plans of doing, but the consequences of not maintaining this 'useless' insurance would be a cost I choose not to risk. All insurance is a gamble - I have maintained auto insurance for >40-years without an at-fault claim, but pay my premiums every year. I am off to Bangkok to collect my visa stamp(s) tomorrow. I will seek clarification on a number of lingering questions: What forms of yearly notification are acceptable - electronic, snail mail via registered EMS, visit to a local immigration office, on-line video appointment - requiring travel to Bangkok is non-sensical. Can I delete my application information from the BOI website now that the documents have been reviewed an visa has been issued or can BOI do it for me and other applicants who have their visas What happens if, because of health issues, a visa holder cannot travel to Bangkok to extend for the second five-years after paperwork has been approved (for me this would be when I am 79-years old).

Wonder if you get an extra day in leap years? This is the wrong way to look at it - what happens if your one-year report is made on February 29th, 2024 - does one get four more years until the next February 29th in 2028?

We have kept first ckass on our eight-year old car simply to retain the 200K cover for a downpayment should it be stolen or destroyed. The cover is minor as is the premium above third class which has has about the same liability, medical payments, and bail bond. The real question is what value the insurace company would assign at what premium should you find a company to write a policy.

Head scratchers indeed - what is supposed to go where is unclear. Should you choose to upload U.S. tax documents it would be good to let them know what they are looking for: On a 1040 pension income is on line 5B and gross Social Security Benefit is on line 6a (6b has the 85% that is taxable income). On the transcript my pension is on the bottom line of the first page, while my gross Social Security Benefit is on line 14 of the second page .

I decided it was wiser not share my widower status with my wife when it appeared in the summarize document.

I never managed to get BOI application and Pacific Cross Health Insurance expiration to coordinate. I simply provided a brokerage statement and tax return with my account and social security numbers redacted from the pdf. I am sure someone could figure out a way to reverse engineer into my account, but I have faith that it would be difficult to access and drain an account with a U.S. brokerage firm.

Oops. The visa expires October 16, 2032 not December: The notice has an effective date of October 17 - the letter expires on December 16, 2022 and the visa expires on December 16, 2032.

Received an email notifying me of my approval and directing me to make an appointment and gather documents. I chose to substitute my brokerage account statement showing >2x the required 'deposit' in my IRAs. Letter issued without any issue. I am glad I have broken the link between two of my favorite bureaucracies - insurance companies and immigration. A few notes: The notice has an effective date of October 17 - the letter expires on December 16, 2022 and the visa expires on December 16, 2032. There is a bunch of confusion about the size of the photo - the list of required documents has it as a 3x4 cm but the approval letter has it as 4x6 cm (the standard immigration size called out on the back of the TM94). Anyone have any luck with a payment alternative to putting a Thai application on my phone?

My status still shows reviewing additional documents and the 'bell' notification is still referencing the initial document receipt date back in early October. There is nothing when I click on the three dots. I will give it another week on the assumption that the individual who called me had access to my files that I submitted (tax return and transcript, pension and Social Security benefit letters) and had knowledge that everything was in order and the approval would be forthcoming. Not worried about the delay as my extension on Non-IMM O expires in January.

I submitted a brokerage statement with both retirement accounts (traditional IRA [income taxes due upon distribution] and Roth [income taxes already paid]) and a small robot managed non-retirement account with a combined balance well in excess of the requirement. I had a phone call late last week that my application had been approved but I have not seen the notification. Use of my assets was prompted by the difficulty of having my health insurance expiration date changed along with dropping out-patient coverage. I realized that what I really wanted was health insurance to protect my assets rather than to be used to qualify for an immigration visa as that is its true purpose here - to serve as insurance against a major medical expense not to pay for every headache and band aid. I will post when I receive the 'letter' as that will confirm that use of my brokerage statement was acceptable. I do note that a statement might be questioned if it was not current and did not show the required balance for the past year.

Received phone call informing me that my application has been approved but no letter as of yet. This resolves the question whether they would accept a retirement account instead of a bank account. I have Pacific Cross health insurance but rather than wait until it renews in January I chose to use the financial assets option, thus unlinking health insurance and immigration. This allows me to have insurance protect my assets and serve as a major medical policy

It appears the process is beginning to move faster, at least on the front end. My application was submitted September 16 and approved October 4 after one document update, so less than three-weeks. Will see what happens with my use of my IRA in lieu of a medical policy during the document review process.

Assuming it is the same as immigration's four deadly diseases, I had my doctor at Kaiser sign mine, once had to run it through medical records, once he just signed it.

I received my approval letter this morning for my WP visa. I have submitted documents and await their letter. The only thing unusual is that I chose to qualify my medical cover by using my Roth IRA account (> 2x the $100K required in a bank account) in lieu of submitting my Pacific Cross policy when it gets renewed in January. I had queried staff members about using an IRA and even sent off a description of the account from the web, but I have never received confirmation that it was acceptable. I dislike all bureaucracies, and tying my Immigration status to my health Insurance is something I want to avoid.

I believe that cards issued after 70-years old do not expire. Unlike my wife's there is no expiration date on mine.

I have been pondeing and parsing that popup for the last few days as well. Not a clue as to what it means in terms os progress.

This recent back and forth about getting the Thai BOI and Immigration authorities to do a plain reading of an insurance coverage letter makes me more than certain that I will comply with the self-coverage using my U.S. retirement account(s). The real benefit of the LTR for wealthy pensioners is keeping as far away from immigration as possible and to obtain only that insurance coverage that makes sense to you for your situation (for me it is major medical), I am certain that I will be able to meet the self-cover option as long as I am alive, but meeting such arbitrary requirements for insurance 'validity' as people are running into with TriCare or other offshore coverage will always be subject to what eyes are looking at your life and the arrangements you have made.