🇹🇭Long-stay visas for Thailand

The DTV is a five-year multiple-entry Thai visa allowing 180 days per entry, aimed at remote workers and at people enrolled in approved Thai cultural activities. It requires 500,000 THB in liquid savings and, since 31 August 2026, a criminal record certificate.

Insurance: not required4 corrections tracked

Thailand's O-A retirement visa is open from age 50 and carries the strictest insurance rule in Southeast Asia: health cover of at least USD 100,000 (3,000,000 THB), from a Thai insurer on the TGIA long-stay list or a foreign insurer able to issue the official certificate.

Insurance: ฿3,000,000Minimum age 503 corrections tracked

Thailand's LTR is a ten-year residence track for high earners, pensioners and skilled professionals. Its health insurance floor is USD 50,000, materially lower than the retirement visa's, and a USD 100,000 deposit can be substituted for cover entirely.

Insurance: $50,0001 corrections tracked

The Thai Non-Immigrant ED visa is what you now use to study Thai at a language school, because the DTV soft-power category has never covered general language instruction. The visa itself is small: a single-entry sticker valid 90 days from issue, giving a 90-day permit to stay on arrival, costing 70 Euro at the Royal Thai Embassy in Vienna (fees are set per mission — the Kuala Lumpur checklist charges RM 320). The year people talk about is built inside Thailand from extensions at 1,900 baht each, and language students are commonly granted 60 days at a time rather than twelve months.

Insurance: not required5 corrections tracked

The "marriage visa" is really two things: a 90-day single-entry Non-Immigrant O issued by a Thai embassy, then a one-year extension of stay granted inside Thailand by the Immigration Bureau. The money test for the extension is set by clause 2.18(6) of Order 327/2557: an average income of no less than THB 40,000 per month, or no less than THB 400,000 sitting in a Thai bank account for the two months before you apply. The extension application costs THB 1,900, is granted for no more than one year at a time, and can be renewed indefinitely while the marriage is genuine "de jure and de facto".

Insurance: not required6 corrections tracked

The Thailand Non-Immigrant B is the visa you enter on to take a salaried job or run a business, and it costs 2,000 Baht for a single entry valid three months or 5,000 Baht for a one-year multiple-entry; a three-year version costs 10,000 Baht. It is not a residence permit and not work authorisation: each entry gives you a maximum of 90 days, and you must be granted a work permit before you start work. The company sponsoring you carries the real burden — to get your stay extended to a year, Immigration requires the employer to hold paid-up registered capital of no less than 2 million Baht and a ratio of one foreign employee per four permanent Thai employees, and you must earn at least the figure set for your nationality (50,000 Baht a month for nationals of European countries, Australia, Canada, Japan and the United States).

Insurance: not required6 corrections tracked