Maybe Immigration should have start to give visa/ extionsen for 3 or 5 year from now, more easy for everyone. 

There is already a Thai Elite visa that is valid for 5 years and a non-ox visa for retirement that allows a total stay of 10 years (Two 5 year visas).

But doesn't these visas mean you have to leave the country and re-enter every year?

 

For many that will be a deal-breaker due to difficulty of travel.

14 minutes ago, MeaMaximaCulpa said:

But doesn't these visas mean you have to leave the country and re-enter every year?

If you don't travel and stay for a year you can apply for a one year extension of your last entry. Easily done after paying the 1900 fee.

55 minutes ago, nasa123 said:

more easy for everyone. 

That's not how immigration works.????

regards Worgeordie

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

There is already a Thai Elite visa that is valid for 5 years and a non-ox visa for retirement that allows a total stay of 10 years (Two 5 year visas).

I mean better to make the exstation for 2-3-4 or 5 years, not elite for 500.000 ++. 

1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:

everything about Thailand should be viewed through the prism of corruption.

 

Right. So make the 5 year extension 20x the price of the 1 year extension. I would pay it.

4 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

If you don't travel and stay for a year you can apply for a one year extension of your last entry. Easily done after paying the 1900 fee.

Yes OK, but then it is back to exactly the same as an extension of stay with all of its requirements, limitations and indeed uncertainty. So unless you like and actually can travel out at least once per year, for me and I would guess many others, the Elite is not much of an option. Hey I would give a kidney for a twenty year permit to stay without any strings attached, since I do not qualify for permanent residency. By then I would most probably be long gone...

10 minutes ago, MeaMaximaCulpa said:

Yes OK, but then it is back to exactly the same as an extension of stay with all of its requirements, limitations and indeed uncertainty. So unless you like and actually can travel out at least once per year, for me and I would guess many others, the Elite is not much of an option. Hey I would give a kidney for a twenty year permit to stay without any strings attached, since I do not qualify for permanent residency. By then I would most probably be long gone...

This whole thread is about nothing. 

What do you mean by "all the requirements". I'm on extensions (retirement) so yes I stuck money in bank FD account. Attend cw immigration ONCE per year and fork over 1900baht. 

The 90 day report and tm30 can be done online. Walk in the park.

Even in this difficult times I could trot off to CW for annual extension. 

Not hard.

 

15 minutes ago, MeaMaximaCulpa said:

Yes OK, but then it is back to exactly the same as an extension of stay with all of its requirements, limitations and indeed uncertainty.

No requirement other than the PE visa in your passport, application form and copies of a few pages of your passport.

I am aware a member that never left the country until just before his visa expired to get a new one year entry from his PE visa after it was issued.

40 minutes ago, MeaMaximaCulpa said:

Yes OK, but then it is back to exactly the same as an extension of stay with all of its requirements, limitations and indeed uncertainty. So unless you like and actually can travel out at least once per year, for me and I would guess many others, the Elite is not much of an option. Hey I would give a kidney for a twenty year permit to stay without any strings attached, since I do not qualify for permanent residency. By then I would most probably be long gone...

There is also a 20 year Elite Visa option, You just pay 1900 baht if you do not leave the country or do a order hop every year and it keeps it active for the next year, and so on and son until year 20..

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

There is also a 20 year Elite Visa option, You just pay 1900 baht if you do not leave the country or do a order hop every year and it keeps it active for the next year, and so on and son until year 20..

I reckon I'd drop a million for a 20 years stay when I get to 60 or 65 - when I can't work anymore (unless I change to a marriage extension) and don't want to mess around with retirement visas and their frequent rule changes. 

Edited April 27, 20206 yr by DavisH

2 minutes ago, DavisH said:

I reckon I'd drop a million for a 20 years stay when I get to 60 or 65 - when I can't work anymore (unless I change to a marriage extension) and don't want to mess around with retirement visas and their frequent rule changes. 

Explain frequent. I've been here 7 years on annual extensions (retirement). One change and that was about money maintained in bank. Granted pain in harse, but not big deal. 

3 hours ago, MeaMaximaCulpa said:

So unless you like and actually can travel out at least once per year, for me and I would guess many others, the Elite is not much of an option.

On my first 5 year elite visa I didn't leave for 5 years, you just need to do a simple extension of stay once a year, it takes about 10 minutes.

56 minutes ago, ukrules said:

On my first 5 year elite visa I didn't leave for 5 years, you just need to do a simple extension of stay once a year, it takes about 10 minutes.

UKrules not taking cheap shot. Just to clarify, you lived in Thailand 5 years on the trot.

Funny how many of us live here very different. I have been here 7 year and yet to do 90 report as exit prior to 3 month and return.

In hindsight I would have purchased an elite visa. I just never visited as younger guy. Clearly suited you and many others.

 

 

 

So just to be clear, I may be a bit slow here. But is it so that on Elite visa, you do not need to show either income nor money in the bank?

 

Just go to the IO with application form and PP copies? Now that changes things if that is indeed all that is required.

 

I am on retirement extension now, but we don't know what the future will bring, every year seems to add/change something, and also we don't know about grandfathering.

So Elite might be a "Plan B" if it is not discontinued.

5 minutes ago, MeaMaximaCulpa said:

So just to be clear, I may be a bit slow here. But is it so that on Elite visa, you do not need to show either income nor money in the bank?

 

Just go to the IO with application form and PP copies? Now that changes things if that is indeed all that is required.

Correct on all counts.

 

No money needed in the bank, no income proofs, no insurance requirement although I would recommend it.

 

Just a regular extension of stay form, a photo and a few copies from your passport and you're getting a 1 year stamp without leaving the country, every year, without fail and with no questions, no photos of your house, wife, pets, etc, etc, required.

 

Great, thanks! That was at least some good news in these troubled times.

Bit left field but often doing non-O retirement extensions had some criticism based on very low interest rate offered thai banks. I have 1mill FD account K bank. Bad interest 1.55% 

In AU I was forced to opt for FD account 2.65% . 12 months ago 

It just came out Maturity. The renew rate offered was 1% . For 600kaud.

The world has changed 

 

4 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

UKrules not taking cheap shot. Just to clarify, you lived in Thailand 5 years on the trot.

 

Yes, I got the visa while I was already in Thailand and didn't leave the country at all until 5 years later, I simply extended it once per year at immigration.

 

It really does work as advertised, in fact I renewed it for another 5 years last year so I'm good until late 2024 now.

 

Edited April 27, 20206 yr by ukrules

3 or 5 yr per entry or per extension would be nice.

9 hours ago, Thailand J said:

3 or 5 yr per entry or per extension would be nice.

It's really not that much hassle to extend it once a year, not in Hua Hin anyway.

 

I wouldn't be too keen on doing the extensions at Chaeng Wattana or Chiang Mai but I think there might be a way to get them done quicker (literally jump the queue) with the concierge service in those two locations.