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I also had my LTR visa transferred to my new passport last year. The validity date was then extended to 5 years after the LTR was initially awarded. It was easy to do at the BOI office in Bangkok.

I do have a yellow book and pink card. They are from Sisaket province. I recently divorced my wife and moved to Bangkok. I sought the residency certificate in Bangkok so that I could get my Bangkok address on my drivers license. I want to have an ID with both my photo and my Bangkok address on it. And yes . . . the yellow book was a PIA to get . . .

Residency certificate for LTR holders: I need a residency certificate to renew my drivers license. I did my "research" and thought that what I needed to do was: Prepare documents Go to Immigration at Chaeng Watthana Pay 200 baht Wait 2 weeks for them to mail the certificate to my address I did go to CW this morning and was informed that I had to go to BOI Chamchuri Square. You actually go to the Immigration office opposite the BOI office. There was no wait at 11:30am. I paid 500 baht The officer told me to come back after 1pm (lunchtime) and they handed me the certificate. That is, no wait. Hope this helps someone avoid my long journey this morning.

I returned from the US in June, 2024 and I did not get any paper notice stating a date for 1 year reporting. Just put it on your calendar to remind yourself.

If your passive income is simple clear pension income then I would recommend trying to apply yourself on the BOI website. I qualified with just my work pension. I found the BOI website application to be very easy and the BOI staff was very easy to work with once they started processing my application. If your passive income is more complicated then by all means seek an agent.

I believe it is any bank. It doesn't have to be a Thai bank.

Interesting . . . I've had PC since 2018. No claims. I'm getting a 20% no claims discount. Don't forget the $100,000 in any bank option for the LTR insurance requirement.

I agree. Simple is nice. I had one work pension that qualified plus my Social Security. When I applied in October 2022 I submitted 1 year of my US tax return. They never asked for anything else about my finances. For insurance I submitted the same insurance certificate I used for my previous OA visa

I got it about the same time the US embassy stopped giving residency affidavits. I used the yellow book to purchase a motorbike. I use the pink ID as my ID often instead of my passport. I have a Thai driver's license but I usually show them the pink ID. I opened a bank account recently using my passport, yellow book, and pink ID. As an American I was expecting resistance but they were actually very welcoming and it took less than an hour to set up the new account. I can only speculate that having all three ID's helped smooth the way. I was recently inquiring about getting a tax ID but, as someone else mentioned, my tax ID is my pink ID. I saved some money and effort not getting a tax ID. Slightly off topic - I needed to get a login to my US Social Security account. There was an identification process and the pink ID turned out to be the only photo ID with my current address.

For me, in Sisaket province, it was a process that took about a day and half over 5 days (there was a weekend in between). I had to get my passport translated and at the same time I was asked about my family tree which was also documented and translated. I had to drive an hour to the Sisaket immigration office to get a document. After the weekend we had an appointment to talk with a local official. I needed my wife, mother-in-law, and the village headman to vouch for me. They then approved the yellow book and I went across the hall to get my pink card. Recently I was talking to my previous Bangkok condo landlord about renting the condo again. I mentioned getting a yellow book and she nodded yes as if it was an easy thing to do. It was a bigger process than either my wife or I expected.

Yes. I was on my 5th OA extension when I switched to my pensioner LTR in January 2023. You don’t have to wait until the end of the extension.

There are so few people with an LTR I don’t see them bothering about changing our tax exempt status.

The official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who has been interviewed a couple of times said you can’t return same day. Someone is just going to have to test the system. That person just has to plan on an overnight stay and if they can’t return the same day then they return the next day and then . . . the mystery is over.

There are many examples of remote workers getting a DTV. Examples of using a class (soft power) or a medical appointment are few. I posted to point out that you don’t have to be getting brain surgery to use medical treatment to qualify for a DTV. A few dental appointments worked for in this particular instance.

There is a post on the Thai visa advice Facebook group of a guy who got his DTV using dentist appointments to get Invisalign teeth straightening. The bar for a medical DTV is pretty low at the UK Thai consulate.