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Hello all, Can someone confirm that one can download the LTR e-visa at the Thai e-Visa website? I can’t seem to click on the download icon for what I assume is the e-visa copy (found at main dashboard, View All Applications link, then Available link). Thanks!

I wasn’t married then.

I may be an outlier but this was not the case for me. I got an METV last year. Stayed 55 days went out for 10 days. Came back and was sent to an interrogation by a supervisor in BKK. Was allowed entry but had to sign a document and purchase an outbound ticket. IO supervisor made it clear that I needed to have an OA visa to reenter Thailand. Previous to this, I have only travelled to Thailand 4 times. 3 times for less than a week and the 4th was 44 days. I am still confused as how people here can travel multiple times on TVs and visa exempt for years without encountering any issues. Once my Thai wife gets her US visa, I have no intention of staying in Thailand long term.

As a counterpoint, I lived in China for a few years, Philippines too. I’ve eaten a fair share of local foods. The only time I suffered severe food poisoning is in Thailand. I avoid street food now.

This happened to me this past February arriving to BKK on an OA visa. IO asked me for proof of health insurance but I didn’t have a copy since nobody asked for it first time I entered on the OA visa. I held up the line trying to find a copy on my phone. I was stamped in only up until the health insurance is valid.

Thanks for the reply! I wasn't retired the full year last year so if they go by my 2023 passive income alone I will be just under the $80K requirement.

I applied for the LTR visa and submitted my pension benefit letter that showed I have a pension of at least $80K a year. BOI keeps asking me for my tax return and 1099s. Is this normal? I thought the pension benefit letter would be sufficient since I've exceeded the $80K minimum requirement for passive income.

I got referred to an IO supervisor at BKK this year on an METV. The supervisor would not permit me entry unless I bought an outbound ticket. I had to purchase a ticket right there and then. I was stamped for 60 days.

don't you have to put your name/passport number in the search field (in the screenshot above) and click on your name on the results?

I think you need some perspective. The future being worse than the past is going to be a tall order. In the last 100 years, the world has endured a world war, The Great Depression, Korean War, the Cold War, near world annihilation from the Cuban Missile crisis, Vietnam War, the energy crisis, ozone hole crisis (remember that one?), the economic implosion of the world’s second largest economy (Japan bubble), the Persian Gulf War, the dot.com crash, Y2K crisis (reading the media made me think we truly were going to be living in caves), The Great Recession, the swine flu, the bird flu, the ebola virus, COVID crisis (the Spanish flu killed off millions!), global warming, and I’m sure I’m miss a bunch of other examples. This doesn’t even list any regional economic, humanitarian and political crisis that regularly occurs even now but barely affects the world but is still painful to regional countries affected e.g: Venezuela; Argentina, Africa etc. There is an ongoing war with Russia! and Ukraine and it looks like the world has barely budged. So given a bird’s eye view, this world has been screwed for centuries and yet here we are afraid of what’s going to happen next when we forget or ignore the many crises that has already happened all around us.

Yes, for a year. It meets minimum coverage for visa purposes. I'll never use this insurance policy. I consider this as a part of the cost of doing business. I have my own insurance that covers me worldwide but isn't accepted by the Thai visa folks.

Thanks for the reply oldcpu. I will miss the income requirement by a few hundred dollars for 2023 tax year (I should have done a Roth rollover). But after having read through the thread, I saw a post with a screenshot where the entry for the income can be specified by dates. I'm assuming that the income can be set for any 12 month period not just for the tax year. I have time since I just got recently issued an OA visa. So I will wait until I have 12 months of pension income and after I have filed my income tax return next year to apply for the LTR WP.

I only submitted the FBI checks.

It was around 6000 baht for the largest deductible. I used AXA and they only had one plan to offer.

Hello folks, I retired early this year so I have not completed one full year retirement yet. If my full year of retirement pension will be in April 2024 (it meets the LTR annual pension requirement), would I be eligible to apply for the LTR WP then? Should I wait until 2025 to apply so the income tax returns would be simpler then? I'm on an OA visa now and is valid until December 2024. But I'd like to get the LTR visa next year to receive the tax exemptions if possible. Thanks!