Tomio

I just received my LTR under the wealthy pensioners category. If you can meet the requirements, it's quite a good deal. If you earn more than $80,000 annually in pensions, you're almost there. If you don't want to fork out money for what sounds like a waste for health insurance, you can elect to self insure by showing that you've had a sizeable balance ⚖️ n your bank account. The rules state that you must have at least $100,000 in your account for the past 12 months. This is not exactly correct. Of the account is a joint account, you must have at least $200,000 in your bank account for the past twelve months. I started the process dealing with BOI online. Once I receives their approval, I has to switch to Thai Consulate in lis Angeles because I am not physically in Thailand. Cost me a little more. $1600 vs 50,000 baht. Six weeks from start to finish 

I just received my approved LTR-WP. It tooke exactly one and a half months to complete the process. I had to deal with the Thai Consulate in Los Angeles which probably lengthen the time it took to complete. Was it an easy process? Not at all. But at least it was doable. Because I dealt with the Consulate it was a little bit more costly - $1600 versus 50,000 baht. Plus, having to do everything on line, it was not easy getting answers from them such as status of my application. All in all, although extremely frustrating at times, it was all worth it at the end