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--- thailand [2025/11/16 06:43] – [Retirement Visa] jhagstrand
+++ thailand [2025/12/16 03:56] (current) – jhagstrand
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 ====== Thailand ======
-====== Taxes ======
+[[American Expat Retiree Financials | contents]]
+===== Taxes =====
 In 2024-2025 there has been a degree of fear mongering on the part of three or four farang tax advisors trying to scare up business, exploiting ignorance about a government memo.
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 Who can I use as an interpreter?
-====== Visa ======
+===== Department of Land Transport (DLT) =====
+Drivers License: Car and Motorcycle
+===== Customs =====
+Luggage and Shipping: import and export.
+===== Revenue Dept =====
+Income Tax
+===== Immigration =====
+  * Visas
+  * TM6 - replaced by TDAC.
+  * TM30 - residence in Thailand.
+  * 90-day address check-in
+  * After passport renewal, transfer stamps from old book to new, including entry stamp, original non-O visa, and current retirement visa.
+  * TDAC Thailand Digital Arrival Card (TDAC). Starting 1 May 2025. Must be completed online within 72 hours prior to arrival.
+Tm 30 is landlord's responsibility and is my responsibility.
+O vs O-A visas\\
+https://youtu.be/ZjSVhrL8mo4?si=wZr8PVRCbSmouGZG
+=====Visa=====
+====Non-Immigrant Visa====
+===Type O===
+  * a general-purpose visa for family, retirement, or other purposes
+  * not so easy to get from outside of Thailand
+  * financial requirement
+    * 800,000 Thai baht in a Thai bank account, or
+    * evidence proving a pension of 65,000 thb per month,  65,000.00 Thai Baht = 2,011.23 USD as of Nov 2025 (This is an option that would let me get that 800,000 baht out of the bank for that last two years)
+===Type O-A===
+  * a specific one-year, long-stay retirement visa
+  * requires insurance
+  * no minimum bank balance requirement [is this true?]
-Non-Immigrant Visa\\
+===Type O-X===
-O visa is a general-purpose visa for family, retirement, or other purposes
+  * like O-A but for 5 years
+  * [does this still exist?]
-O-A visa is a specific one-year, long-stay retirement visa\\
-has a mandatory insurance requirement
-<code>
--X 5 years
-</code>
 ====== Resources ======
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 :30 Breakfast, The Duke’s Ruam Chok, 1st Saturday, 345THB\\
 :30 meeting, Duangtawan, 4th Saturday
-===== Immigration =====
-  * Visas
-  * TM6 - replaced by TDAC.
-  * TM30 - residence in Thailand.
-  * 90-day address check-in
-  * After passport renewal, transfer stamps from old book to new, including entry stamp, original non-O visa, and current retirement visa.
-  * TDAC Thailand Digital Arrival Card (TDAC). Starting 1 May 2025. Must be completed online within 72 hours prior to arrival.
-===== Department of Land Transport (DLT) =====
-Drivers License: Car and Motorcycle
-===== Customs =====
-Luggage and Shipping: import and export.
-===== Revenue Dept =====
-Income Tax
-=====Visa=====
-Two retirement visa options:
-Type O vs type O-A
-  * O-A requires insurance, but maybe no bank balance requirement
-  * O not so easy to get from outside of Thailand
-Type O Retirement visa requires:
-  * 800,000 Thai baht in a Thai bank account, or
-  * evidence proving a pension of 65,000 thb per month,  65,000.00 Thai Baht = 2,011.23 USD as of Nov 2025
-    * (This is an option that would let me get that 800,000 baht out of the bank for that last two years)