BrandonJT

You would need to check with your immigration office. Some offices will not accept joint counts at all. For those immigration offices that will accept a join account, you must double all amounts as only 50% of the money is considered yours. I have never heard of anyone trying to do the monthly transfers to a joint account, only the banked money method.

No, that's what the DTV is for.

You can use monthly income to get the non-O visa from the Thai embassy. But then once you get to Thailand, you cannot use income for the first 1-year extension. You would need to deposit the 800k and have it in your Thai bank account for at least 2 full months before you can apply for your extension. Once you get the extension, your bank account must remain at 800,000 for 3 months after, and then it can never drop below 400,000. While you are doing this, you can start doing the monthly transfer. The following year, after your first annual extension is ending, if you can show 12 full months of monthly transfers exceeding the required amount (you said retirement so that's 65,000 per month) you would then be able to show that for your 2nd year extension. Once you receive that extension, you could then remove the 400,000 from your Thai bank account and continue doing monthly transfers for as long as you want to live in Thailand.

Just bring what you want with you over time in your suitcases. Any other method you are going to pay customs fees where it won't make sense.

I'm honestly amazed at how wrong all of this information is. You literally have no idea what you are talking about. Good luck surviving in Thailand with this understanding.

Just poor marketing in general. Among all of the Facebook visa groups, the LTR is rarely mentioned, and people that have done a little bit of research on retirement visas have never heard of the LTR visa.

That is an exception, not normal.

READ THE POST "and I don't have the 400,000 Baht seasoned" THE PROBLEM IS THE MONEY IS NOT SEASONED. His permission to stay ends in 6 weeks. The money needs to be in the bank for TWO MONTHS. 6 weeks is less than two months. So how do you show the money is in the bank for 2 months? You get permission to stay in Thailand for an extra 2 months which gives a total of 3.5 months until needing to apply for the 1-year extension. I certainly know both how to read, how to understand what the problem is, and how to use the available tools to solve it. You seem to only be able to read a single thing and focus in on it and keep the solution inside a small box. I have given the exact way for the op to go about not having to leave the country and to get their 1-year extension. Case closed. I'm done with you.

Are you just daft? The OP needs extra time for his money to the in the bank for 2 months. Please learn how to read. How do you get extra time so you can show the money was in the bank? You apply for the 60-day visiting Thai family extension. That's the exact amount of time that the Op needs. And it solves the problem. You are just making things confusing and making a huge issue that doesn't exist.

We are not talking about a marriage extension! Stop confusing things! This is the 60-day visiting Thai family extension. You can use it for a Thai relative, a Thai child, a Thai spouse. It IS NOT A MARRIAGE EXTENSION. https://piv-phuket.com/60-day-family-extension/

Literally everywhere. The 400,000 baht is a requirement for the Non-O visa based on marriage to Thai and for a one-year extension based on marriage to Thai. The 60-day visiting Thai family extension does not have any financial requirement and never has.

The 60-day visiting Thai family extension does not require any funds. That would be to give him time for the funds to be in the account already for 2 months in order to apply for the 1-year extension.

The old passport would not be valid. You cannot enter on it. The standard practice for all other visas is you get a new passport, you show your old passport and your new passport along with the visa. Since the visa is in the old passport, they would stamp you in until when the previous passport was valid. But they most certainly will not use an old passport that has been invalidated as 99.9% of countries do when you get a new passport.

Actually the BOI only assists/endorses opening an account at Bangkok Bank or Kasikorn. Though you shouldn't have a problem opening your own account at any other bank that accepts foreigners with a 10-year visa. Their demand for the endorsement letter is asinine though. How do they think you got the visa if you didn't get the letter? They just like putting up artificial impediments and hoped that you would go away and not come back. You are lucky they didn't add a new requirement the 2nd time you get back, as many banks are known to multiple times trying to get you to go away.

METV doesn't even mean anything anymore. Multiple reports of people doing a 3rd border bounce at the end of their METV and being pulled out of line and interrogated about what they think they are doing, as they've already spent almost 6 months in Thailand and are clearly not a tourist. Tourist visas don't mean anything anymore. Either act like a tourist or expect problems if you don't have a long-term visa.

I don't have personal knowledge, but I will be doing it exactly this way in the future as I won't be in Thailand long enough to renew my passport before it expires.

In absolutely not case is it ever illegal to stay in an AirBNB. It's only illegal for them to offer a short term rental if they don't have a hotel license.

You should be able to cancel your work permit and work extension 1-2 weeks ahead of time with document from your employer showing the end date of your work. They would cancel your wokr extension and then stamp you in again until the end date on your documents. That should give you plenty of time to go to Bangkok and apply for the new work extension.

The only risk would be if they stamped you in as something different from your LTR when you returned. Otherwise you can do as you said, show both passports when you return and then go to immigration to get the remainder of your 5 year stamped when they transfer things over. The other risk is if something holds you up and you're not able to return before your stamp in your old passports ends, you would have the potential of losing your LTR in that case.

You need to go to your immigration office and ask them if they will allow you to apply for the 60-day "Visiting Thai Family" extension after you cancel your work extension. If they will allow you to apply for that, then you will have plenty of time to season your 400,000 baht. If they will not allow you to apply for it, then you will likely have to leave Thailand and return on a visa exempt status and start fresh from that.

What? A non-O visa DOES require money to get it. To apply for a non-O based on marriage you must show proof of 400,000 baht. That IS the rule. And embassies and consulates don't make any rules about entering Thailand, that's immigration that does that. And wtf does the UN and child rights have anything to do with entering Thailand?

There is a large amount of evidence based on reports that a single 60-day visa exempt entry with a 30 day extension is all it takes now to be interrogated upon return if that return does not have at least a few months between when you left. 90 days + the potential for another 90 days, meaning half of the year, is more than enough to set the officers onto your trail at this point. 6 months is not a tourist in their eyes, and I don't blame them.

You can still get 60+30 even if they change it. Just apply for a tourist visa online through the e-visa system before your trip. Takes all of 5 minutes.

If you are going to stay in Chiang Mai then you' want to use a border bounce agency to drive you to Chiang Khong and get you out and back in, not a safe entry airport service. As far as SETV goes, yes they are still available, but you have to apply online after entering those countries, and wait for the processing. And a tourist visa won't really help you if you're at risk of being denied entry. A tourist visa only signifies how long of a stamp you will receive IF they let you in. Immigration views visa exempt and tourist visa both as tourist entries. You can't stay long-term in Thailand as a tourist, so there isn't really any difference. You need an actual long-term visa, not a tourist visa.

I would apply for the LTR about 60 days before you plan on arriving in Thailand. It's all done online and you don't pay anything to apply. I've seen many recent reports of 3-4 month processing times, so even if they process you in one month, your approval letter will still be valid when you arrive in Thailand. Otherwise if things work out like expected you'll be approved 30-60 days after you arrive and can book the appointment to pickup your visa in Bangkok. There's absolutely no reason to wait until you're in Thailand to apply, as it's all done online. You'd be filling out the same form whether you're in Thailand or not. And if you arrive first and your visa takes 3-4 months to process, you might run out of time on your 90-day entry stamp.