hello,

i joined a while ago and have been reading a lot of the topics here. first let me say that this is a great site and all of you are very kind and helpful for sharing your knowledge and experiences!

i decided to post a new topic because i haven`t seen any topics that address my particular sitch.

i am an american, currently living in japan. i am re-locating to thailand in late september and am trying to figure out what i should do for a visa. i do not have employment lined up in thailand, although i have some business opportunities there which i intend to follow-up on after a bit of R and R. i may look for a proper job some months down the road, but for the first few months i will be un- or self-employed.

i would like to avoid having to do a visa run every couple of months, and so am wondering what my options are. it seems like the Multiple-entry Non Immigrant visa is the easiest choice (although apparently i would still need to leave and come back every 3 months).

so my questions for you all are: 1) are there any other options that i am overlooking? and 2) is the Multiple-entry Non Immigrant visa fairly easy to get for americans, and do i need any special paperwork for it?

thanks in advance for any help and info. you are willing to share!

If you have 3 million baht to invest you could obtain a yearly extension of stay or set up a business and employ yourself but other than that there is not much other than a 60 day tourist visa unless you go to US or OZ or some other country that may still provide multi entry non immigrant visas. Do not believe you will obtain in Japan or any other country in this region. And yes, you would have to leave every 90 days if you did not have employment or other reason for an extension of stay.

One more way would be the Elite-card, at Baht 1,000,000.

You get a 5-years'-visa that allows you to stay for 90 days at a time and can be extented every 90 days. If you leave and return you get 90 days at the border.

20 pages (out of 258!) into this informative but enormous library of topics on visas, and this particular forum may be the closest to my question. But thanks for the info on medical insurance and other topics I've picked up from the other forums already.

I'm Australian working in Hong Kong, no Thai family, want to get a visa for extended stays (i.e. longer than 30 days tourist) in Thailand, will eventually move there and have my kids in schools there (hence guardian visa), and may start a business there (hence work permit and Non-B visa), but in the meantime I'm just a visitor.

Should I buy a THB 10mm condo? Or is there another non-immigrant visa that can be had, and then a THB 3mm condo investment can extends that? If I buy a house, will the blue registration book help me get a longer-stay tourist visa?

20 pages (out of 258!) into this informative but enormous library of topics on visas, and this particular forum may be the closest to my question.  But thanks for the info on medical insurance and other topics I've picked up from the other forums already.

I'm Australian working in Hong Kong, no Thai family, want to get a visa for extended stays (i.e. longer than 30 days tourist) in Thailand, will eventually move there and have my kids in schools there (hence guardian visa), and may start a business there (hence work permit and Non-B visa), but in the meantime I'm just a visitor.

Should I buy a THB 10mm condo?  Or is there another non-immigrant visa that can be had, and then a THB 3mm condo investment can extends that?  If I buy a house, will the blue registration book help me get a longer-stay tourist visa?

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3 million up investment will do it. You only need to show the RTCG suffient monies for a non B visa which will be extendable each year.