One item that I cant find any help with. I want to apply for a retirement visa and qualify for most requirements ( I know that this is not necessary so, where rules and attitudes often change). But I have no idea about requesting a spouse visa to go along with my own for a Myanmar national of 35 years old. Can anyone advise please?

Thanks   

It was answered in another topic you posted.

See my reply here.

 

Hi, 

Apologies if this has been answered recently, but I gave the last 357 pages a quick scan and couldn't see a list of requirements, costs, and approximate time for obtaining residency visa AND Thai passport for foreigners. 

 

A friend in the Philippines had residency visa canceled in the wake of Covid-19. He's allowed to stay but will have to apply again. I encouraged him to look at Thailand since there's an actual path to citizenship. He didn't believe it was possible anywhere in Asia. I told him the only other Asian country I ever met a passport waving foreigner in was Japan. A woman there got hers after working in Japan for a whopping 15 years. 

 

I told him I've occasionally met foreign retirees in Thailand who waived their Thai passports to prove to me they got it. From talking to them it seemed like a 6 year process. 

 

He likes to travel and I told him one of the main benefits is no more visa runs for all the ASEAN countries such as Indonesia which has terrible restrictions for exit. 

23 minutes ago, travel museums said:

Apologies if this has been answered recently, but I gave the last 357 pages a quick scan and couldn't see a list of requirements, costs, and approximate time for obtaining residency visa AND Thai passport for foreigners. 

To apply for permanent residency requires the applicant to of been working with a work permit and paying taxes for 3 years of consecutive extensions of stay.

Unless married to a Thai the applicant for Thai nationality requires a person to of been on permanent residency for 5 years and of been working during that time.

You missed my point. I'm not asking about a working visa.

 

As I said, I met foreign retirees in Thailand that showed me their Thai passports.

 

They were never working in Thailand. When I asked they said they had first gotten their retirement visa then after years of living in Thailand became Thai citizens. 

they lied to you

You also need to read, write and speak Thai. Be able to sing the National anthem. Have a Thai citizen to swear that you're of good character and know some of the "approved" history of Thailand.

 

You sure they weren't waving their Tabien Baans at you?

Edited May 24, 20206 yr by KarenBravo

On 5/16/2020 at 5:30 PM, travel museums said:

couldn't see a list of requirements, costs, and approximate time for obtaining residency visa AND Thai passport for foreigners. 

 

8 hours ago, travel museums said:

You missed my point. I'm not asking about a working visa.

 

As I said, I met foreign retirees in Thailand that showed me their Thai passports.

 

They were never working in Thailand. When I asked they said they had first gotten their retirement visa then after years of living in Thailand became Thai citizens. 

Not possible