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We thank you for your inquiry on LTR visa. As we are currently receiving a lot of email inquiries, please allow us 1 to 3 working days to send you a reply. Our working days and hours are Monday to Friday, 8.30-16.30 hrs. (BKK time). E-mails received on weekends or public holidays will be reviewed on the next business day. Meanwhile, please visit our website https://ltr.boi.go.th for information which may help answer some of your questions. Particularly you can find out on our website; The criteria https://ltr.boi.go.th/index.html#type Required documents https://ltr.boi.go.th/page/required-documents.html Application process https://ltr.boi.go.th/index.html#app Furthermore please submit your application online at [email protected] by clicking "To apply" button on the top right of the home page or Then you'll need to register for an LTR account first and sign back in in order to fill in the application online and upload required documents for the LTR visa type which you have eligibility. We apologize for this inconvenience and very thankful for your patience and understanding. For urgent matters, please call +66(0) 2209 1100 ext. 1109-1110 or 1141-1149 or email at [email protected]

F groenen, thank you for your helpful input. I woke up to the BOI links late, but they answer many of my questions. First thing one should do is go to BOI website & registers online. Then the following link is helpful: LTR Visa Thailand - Contact (boi.go.th)

F Groenen, thank you for your experience. Further specific questions for you 1.How did you forward your application to BOI, by physical paperwork taken to BOI office or by an online application emailed to BOI? 2.When did you pay the 50,000 THB: to BOI when applying or at Immigration after BOI approval? 3.After taking BOI approval to Immigration, what month did Immigration make your new LTR visa effective/start, at time/month of you going to Immigration, or at month when your then current visa (retirement or whatever) was due to expire?

Thank you for this helpful information about Fees. Other posters have commented on the expected ease of reporting /renewal & that also helped answer my questions of the visa's value to me. I was especially interested in total 10 Yr Fees required, and your input about currently No 5 Yr renewal Fee and No Fee at the annual reporting rqmt clarified that. So, 50,000 THB/10 Yr=5,000/Yr. However, it is even less when considering I currently pay 1,900 THB/Yr. The net cost to me would be 3,200 THB/Yr, with my primary benefit being only reporting once per year (with potentially priority service). It's beginning to look not so bad. However, you calculated that it cost you 10,000/Yr. Why is that? I am guessing that perhaps you paid a Visa service 50,000 THB to assist you with the application. Is that correct?

Ya, I'm converging on the same conclusion. But playing devil's advocate to get all potential unknowns answered.

Thanks, I'm sure there is a lot of helpful information in those 57 pages, and hopefully I will find the time to read all 57 pages (wherever the thread is). But I was hoping for reportable first hand experience on two specific questions. Thanks again.

I qualify for Subject 10 Yr LTR Visa, which has a 50K Baht up front Application Fee. The LTR visa is annually renewable, for an additional Annual Renewal Fee, of course. Currently I pay 1,900 Baht per year to renew my normal retirement visa. My guess is that the LTR annual renewal fee will also be 1,900 Baht. Request anyone with experience of the LTR Process & Renewal Fee to please share. I currently use my monthly pensions (not 800K tied up in a bank) to annually qualify for the normal retirement visa, and the bank/paperwork process is straight forward. Therefore, I am not sure if the annual LTR renewal process would be much less of a headache or not. Perhaps with the LTR visa there would be less chance of getting caught up in a lengthy que. Anyone with experience on the LTR Renewal Process itself, please share. Airport fast track service and exemption from re-entry permits is no real benefit for me. Perhaps my only real benefit of the LTR visa would be an annual reduction of three 90 day reports (from 4 to 1, I assume done at the same time as annually renewing the LTR visa). 50K Baht for that seems a bit expensive.

Out in the middle of nowhere and they make you make a trip just to schedule when to come back again. That doesn't seem very user friendly does it. Well, perhaps the scheduled appointment eliminates a lot of otherwise long que waiting.

The game: \ Round 1: She is just establishing herself (temporarily) that "She is Different". Round 2: This "nice girl" needs money for something or other.

Out of Curiosity--What might be the USG claimed rationale for that dichotomy?

This Sukhothai naval disaster should be a nail in the coffin of Chinese Submarines. But it doesn't seem to be ringing such alarms. As yet, I am unaware of any officials in a position to do so addressing the Chinese Submarine issues with respect to the extremely high life cycle costs of an undersea vessel (Safety, Logistics, Operational Effectiveness). Plus, even such a Cost and Operational Effectiveness Analysis does not address the Strategic Military and Foreign Policy implications of being susceptible to CCP blackmail and CCP personnel stationed on Thai soil.

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Plus Samut Prakan & Nonthaburi could (perhaps should) be included in the Bangkok metropolitan area.

Received today from FBU Manila (quote): Thank you for contacting the Social Security Administration's Federal Benefits Unit at the U.S. Embassy in Manila. ***********We understand that you have received the reporting form SSA-7162 / SSA-7161. To avoid the suspension of your benefits, please complete the form as soon as possible and mail it back to Wilkes-Barre, PA using the enclosed business reply envelope. We recommend using regular postal mail, as registered mail and some courier services may be unable to deliver to a P.O. box. It is not necessary to send a copy of the form to the Federal Benefits Unit in Manila. To ensure that your benefits continue without interruption, please do not submit the completed form to the Federal Benefits Unit in Manila or to a U.S. Embassy/Consulate.

It would be hard to make up a more ridiculous statement, unless he used the old tried & true statement that he tried to stop but his brakes failed & he had to keep going.

Again, thank you all for the very helpful input.

OK, I'll ditch the coat & tie and wear tank top & speedo. Just kidding, thanks for your input. But, I'll try it at least once to see how it works out. Again, unless I get further helpful input concerning crowded MRT times, I will assume the crowds are rush hour times weekdays before 0930 & then again probably 1600-1830.

Everybody, thank you so much for your very helpful input. I should have initially been more explicit by explaining that my "Lumpini Park View" condo on Rama IV has the Blue Line Soi Ngam Dupli entrance right at the condo front door. So, I think my best option is to get off ARL at Phetchburi & walk to MRT. My final question concerns the times of the day to avoid peak hours MRT Phetchburi location many folks already crammed onboard. My initial reaction to Tomazbodner comment ref 0930 hrs was not clear (ie, before or after). I would guess that the biggest crowds would be when people go to work am, and when they return home pm. Or is it busy all day long? Thanks again everybody, for your helpful input.

I'll be taking airport bus from Jomtien to Suvannaphum Airport, getting on rail line to Makasan station and then transferring to Blue Line MRT to go to Lumpini area where my condo is located. I will have a couple heavy backpack type bags, but No suitcases. I seem to remember at one time folks were complaining about the difficult walking transition / transfer between Makkasan station and the MRT blue line. If anybody has experience, please comment on the difficulty of this transition. Thank you.

Oh, thanks, I didn't know that.

My question / post above, was in reference to your statement. I'm just trying to clarify for both of us.

Perhaps there is something I still do not understand. So, just to clarify for both of us: if you are not going to attend the appointment with MFA (which is in BKK) yourself, then who is going to represent you at that MFA appointment, Star Visa?

Why don't you just let Star Visa take your docs to the MFA in Bkk & return the docs to you a few days or a week later. I think they make that run very frequently with a similar batch of MFA requests. The relatively small cost to Star Visa is well worth it. If you try to do it yourself you not only have to get to Bkk, but then the headaches of Bkk traffic getting to MFA as well as the bureaucracy at MFA. Just let Star Visa do it - you relax.

You did mention that you could pull your money out, thus terminating the contract. Unless this "investment is very profitable for you, why not just get out from under it, & release yourself from the "potentially" dodgy / questionable aspects?

Likewise, the Chinese will insist that in turn for such a guarantee, Thailand must act / vote the preferred Chinese way on all future global political, military and economic issues. Otherwise: ...."Oh so sorry, replacement items are out of stock, but we'd like to have our idle maintenance personnel & their "managers" hanging around your ports in the event supplies eventually arrive."