Hello. I am looking to buy a condo in Bkk, and want to spend up to 3 months per annum using it.

What visa do you suggest for this ? Each year using tourist visa and requiring 2 months extension ?

Anything better than that ?

I have no thai relative.

thanks

Check your local consulate or embassy and explain the situation. In some cases, they may be liberal enough give you a single entry O visa good for a 90 day stay. Visiting your condo isn't a standard reason, but it wouldn't hurt to ask. BTW, tourist visas are good for 60 days per entry. Perhaps you are in Spain, but in the UK and US, consulates are often more open minded than the Thai embassy.

Edited August 3, 200817 yr by Jingthing

cyrilmadrid, a tourist visa will give you permission to stay for 60 days and you can get an extension of stay for an additional 30 days at any immigration office in Thailand (fee 1,900 Baht).

A non-O visa, if you can get it, will give you permission to stay for 90 days.

With either option you will in most cases be a little short of the 3 months you want. If you need additional time, with return ticket in hand you can then most likely get an extension of maximum 7 days (fee 1,900 Baht) or failing that, depending on your nationality you can do a border run (exit and re-enter Thailand) for a visa-exempt entry and get permission to sta for 30 more daysy.

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Maestro

Whatever visa strategy you end up using, if you really only need to stay 3 months every year, you should feel pretty confident this is going to be possible.

cyrilmadrid, a tourist visa will give you permission to stay for 60 days and you can get an extension of stay for an additional 30 days at any immigration office in Thailand (fee 1,900 Baht).

A non-O visa, if you can get it, will give you permission to stay for 90 days.

With either option you will in most cases be a little short of the 3 months you want. If you need additional time, with return ticket in hand you can then most likely get an extension of maximum 7 days (fee 1,900 Baht) or failing that, depending on your nationality you can do a border run (exit and re-enter Thailand) for a visa-exempt entry and get permission to sta for 30 more daysy.

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Maestro

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cyrilmadrid, a tourist visa will give you permission to stay for 60 days and you can get an extension of stay for an additional 30 days at any immigration office in Thailand (fee 1,900 Baht).

A non-O visa, if you can get it, will give you permission to stay for 90 days.

With either option you will in most cases be a little short of the 3 months you want. If you need additional time, with return ticket in hand you can then most likely get an extension of maximum 7 days (fee 1,900 Baht) or failing that, depending on your nationality you can do a border run (exit and re-enter Thailand) for a visa-exempt entry and get permission to sta for 30 more daysy.

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Maestro

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If he needs a few more days at the end of his Visa expiration he can probably get a 7 day extension if he has a flight ticket out of Thailand within 7 days.

cyrilmadrid, a tourist visa will give you permission to stay for 60 days and you can get an extension of stay for an additional 30 days at any immigration office in Thailand (fee 1,900 Baht).

A non-O visa, if you can get it, will give you permission to stay for 90 days.

With either option you will in most cases be a little short of the 3 months you want. If you need additional time, with return ticket in hand you can then most likely get an extension of maximum 7 days (fee 1,900 Baht) or failing that, depending on your nationality you can do a border run (exit and re-enter Thailand) for a visa-exempt entry and get permission to sta for 30 more daysy.

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Maestro

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If he needs a few more days at the end of his Visa expiration he can probably get a 7 day extension if he has a flight ticket out of Thailand within 7 days.

They could (maybe) ask you to show the ticket regard the 30 days extension. In the case you be unable to show it ,they could give you only 7 days. But when you ask just for 7 days they give you the extension all the same.

cyrilmadrid, a tourist visa will give you permission to stay for 60 days and you can get an extension of stay for an additional 30 days at any immigration office in Thailand (fee 1,900 Baht).

A non-O visa, if you can get it, will give you permission to stay for 90 days.

With either option you will in most cases be a little short of the 3 months you want. If you need additional time, with return ticket in hand you can then most likely get an extension of maximum 7 days (fee 1,900 Baht) or failing that, depending on your nationality you can do a border run (exit and re-enter Thailand) for a visa-exempt entry and get permission to sta for 30 more daysy.

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Maestro

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If he needs a few more days at the end of his Visa expiration he can probably get a 7 day extension if he has a flight ticket out of Thailand within 7 days.

They could (maybe) ask you to show the ticket regard the 30 days extension. In the case you be unable to show it ,they could give you only 7 days. But when you ask just for 7 days they give you the extension all the same.

If he has already extended for 30 days as Maestro suggested the most he could expect would be another 7 days.

Hello. I am soon to buy a condo in Bkk, and would like to know what is the best visa I should go for if I intend to visit regularly and sometimes for extended periods. Shall I go for a tourist visa each time ?? Or get any other visa ?

I have French passport.

Thanks

Hello. I am soon to buy a condo in Bkk, and would like to know what is the best visa I should go for if I intend to visit regularly and sometimes for extended periods.

Define regularly, define extended. If you are under 50 and not married to a Thai, your options realistically are pretty much limited to tourist visas.

Hello. I am soon to buy a condo in Bkk, and would like to know what is the best visa I should go for if I intend to visit regularly and sometimes for extended periods.

Define regularly, define extended. If you are under 50 and not married to a Thai, your options realistically are pretty much limited to tourist visas.

I am under 50, not married to a Thai, but may want to spend various stays of max 3 months each time, but maybe more than 3 months in total per annum. But what if one year I wanted to stay more than 3 months ?

A tourist visa is fine then.

You get 60 days and can extend with 30 days at immigration.

If you want to stay longer than 90 days, take a trip to Vientiane and get another tourist visa

Edited August 7, 200817 yr by PoorSucker

What are you expecting to hear that you weren't told in your last thread on this same topic: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Visa-Enjoy-Condo-t204067.html

I am merging the topic “Best Visa For Regular Visitor Non Resident Condo Owner ?” into the topic “Best Visa To Enjoy My Condo ?”. Both topics were started by the same member. Duplicate topics were not necessary.

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Maestro

A tourist visa is fine then.

You get 60 days and can extend with 30 days at immigration.

If you want to stay longer than 90 days, take a trip to Vientiane and get another tourist visa

And there is no limit on how many tourists visa I get in a year, or minimum time between two of them, or cumulative time within a year ?

Thanks

No limit, but the issuance of any visa is always at the discretion of the consulate where you apply. People who have lived permanently in Thailand with so-called back-to-back tourist visas have sometimes been told by a Thai consulate in the region that they should not come back to the same consulate for more visas. Your travel plans, however, are different.

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Maestro

Thanks for merging the topics.

It was my first time using the forum and didn't see my previous post had answers. Is it possible to receive an email notice when a reply is received ?

At the top of the topic click on Options, then click on Track This Topic.

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Maestro