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Is there any way to get around the requirement for in-country Non-O (Retirement) of "Rental Agreement between the Applicant and the Landlord ; A copy of house registration. Location map of the house and a rental receipt Past three months." (point 6 of the required document list from Thai Immigration, https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9.FOR-RETIREMENT-PURPOSES-50-YEARS-OLD-NON-O.pdf), please? Since for the first year or two I would for long periods not be in Thailand, I would not really want to spend the money for a permanent rental, but at the same time would want to avoid problems for entering Thailand too frequently visa-exempt.

This is strange as the application form for Wealthy Pensioners explicitly mentions work income as one form of income for this (https://ltr.boi.go.th/documents/Wealthy-Pensioner.pdf; part B, question 1 (2) )

Malaysia has abolished this, Vietnam does not have any long-term/retirement visas and the Philippines is a rather dangerous place.

Just to clarify: Did you have to show the actual drawdown or would it just be sufficient to show the amount in the account for potential drawdown? And did you actually get approval based on this or are you saying that you would expect approval based on this, but have not received approval yet? Thank you!

Does anybody know if the 100,000 USD for the health insurance waiver can also be in stock exchange investments? It would be very costly to hold so much in cash given how low the yield on cash is