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Thanks very much Martin very helpful link!

Hi, not sure if this is the right forum to ask. I'm thinking of spending a few weeks in Zanzibar Tanzania and I'm trying to find out whether I need to have proof of yellow fever vaccination or not. I've looked at the WHO site, everybody is referring to, and it seems that there is no need of YF vax proof to enter Tanzania but it's not clear to me what happens when I get back to bkk. Asked the airliner and said to ask the embassy which is always a drama to get in touch with and get info from. Maybe a long shot I know but I wonder if anyone in here had some info on the matter or knows a quick way to find out for sure. Thanks

Thanks Khunjeff that was useful!

Thanks so much SHA 2 BKK, just what I needed to know!

Hi there, the other LTR threads seems to have been abandoned hence me posting my question in here. Hope people don't mind even though it's not relevant to the OP. I've recently flown from Suvarnabhumi to Phnom Penh with a cheap airliner and I've shown the LTR visa to the lady at the desk asking for a fast track voucher but she said couldn't help me with that. Does anybody know how to get through the fast track security with an economy ticket and without a voucher? Thanks

I'm a LTR visa holder and I was thinking that even though the LTR visa was tax exempt by royal decree when it was first issued in Sep-22, there is a possibility that the new Sep-23 law change about the taxable foreign income have superseded the previous status in terms of foreign remitted income alone. I'm looking around to find more info and needless to say if anybody comes across any literature on that subject, I would be interested to hear. Wife says I'm thinking too much, possibly right! :-)

Welcome! Do you still have the link to the source showing the statement in paragraph 4 saying: 4. There are also certain types of visa that fall outside of the RD tax code. The LTR visa for example received its tax exempt status by royal decree hence visa holders will not to be assessed for Thai tax and they are specifically excluded from this explanation. If not, can I ask you how you came to know that? Thanks

Paragraph 4 says people with LTR visa receive tax exemption status by royal decree. 4. There are also certain types of visa that fall outside of the RD tax code. The LTR visa for example received its tax exempt status by royal decree hence visa holders will not to be assessed for Thai tax and they are specifically excluded from this explanation. And paragraph 8 says that if you're spending more than 179 days per year in Thailand, you will always be considered to be a tax resident in Thailand regardless of the type of visa you have. 8. If you stay in Thailand for more than a cumulative 179 days, between 1 January and 31 December each year, you will be and always were considered to be Tax Resident in Thailand during that year, regardless of the type of visa you have. It doesn’t matter that you may be Tax Resident in your home country or elsewhere or that you pay tax in those countries, Thailand will still regard you as Tax Resident. Tax Residency and Immigration status (and the visa you hold) are different things. Tax residency is based solely on the number of days you spend in Thailand and where you are at midnight on each day. They seem contradictory

Interesting document! Paragraph 8 seems to be contradicting what's stated in paragraph 4 though. Or is it me interpreting it incorrectly? Would you mind sharing the source of this document? Thanks

Hi Liquorice thanks a lot for all that research and interesting info! Tomorrow I'll try to spin it as best I can should they ask in depth questions. I've left it late because I've been waiting for an answer from the LTR visa people (BOI). Just over 30 working days ago I applied for a LTR visa that initially they said it would take 20 working days but it's still processing. I should've know better and I should have not left it this late. Lesson learnt. Thanks for all the info and finger crossed for tomorrow!

That's my last option which I'll try to have passed tomorrow when I'll get the missing paperwork from the bank. As I said in my first message this immigration office is much more demanding on paperwork and when they'll thoroughly check my paperwork related to my "private pension" which is not really it's just income from property investment, they may say they won't accept it. So if that's the case better start now to check the options i might have left. I know years ago people was able to get O visas in Bangkok but I can't remember what hoops they had to go through and maybe now it's not possible anymore. I've been out of the how-to-get-Thai-visas loop for several years and maybe I need a Thai visa expert to give me a run down of the options I have left right now should the 65K a month fail tomorrow.

Just back from immigration and they said they will not accept the 800K because it has to have been in the account the whole year. Meaning al least 400K in the account all the time and 800k 2 months before renewal and 3 months after renewal I guess I meant. So does anyone know if the O visa are still available and how to get one without getting out of Thailand? Or even going to a neighbouring country as it used to be in the old days? Otherwise any other option for a long term visa? My visa extension is running out in two days from now and I'll have to consider the few options I have left if they won't accept the paperwork in connection with my "private pension" Thanks.

Thanks for your input Sophon! I really hope that's the case!

I wonder if anyone have got a suggestion on this one. My second OA extension on retirement basis is about to run out in a few days time. So today I've been to the immigration office and I got asked to produce much more paperwork than I was asked to show a year ago in a different province where I was living before. In the last 12 months I've been using the 65K baht a month method from my investments in my home country which I call "private pension" but it's not quite it. The immigration office in the province where I was living a year ago accepted my source of income as a "private pension" with no problem hence I got the extension. My question is, if tomorrow they will refuse my "private pension" as a prove of income, what are my options? I do have 800K baht in a different Thai account but it's only been there around 6 months and prior to that I had less than 400K baht in all Thai account put together for a few months. Do you think I can just do a straight forward switch from the 65K a month method onto the 800K matured in a Thai account even for 6 months only or anyone envisages a problem with that? Thanks in advance.