Thailand Long Term Resident (LTR) Visa

Good file to file. Keep the passive statements in the form they were issued, and don't add a freelance invoice because it feels like more evidence. More, of the wrong kind, is how pensioner files get muddy.

Stamped, TIESC, September 2025. We brought the marriage certificate, the translation, and the main applicant's document number. We did not bring a speech. Unmarried would have been a no. Married was treated as married.

Por. 3/2568 says lawful spouse. It does not say the spouse has to be a different sex. It also does not turn a partnership into a marriage. If Spain issued a marriage certificate, lead with that. If you are asked for a legalisation, do that before the appointment, not at the counter.

Oh nice, I hadn’t realized they lowered it to 50 million. Thanks for the update, that definitely makes it more accessible for a lot of folks!

6 October, same category, listed employer, income over 80k so no degree path. I'll reply on this comment when it moves rather than start a new one.

From the other side of it: the silence is the long part, the letter is short, and the 60 days after the letter are real. Don't book a non-refundable collection trip yet.

My insurance and my lease are the two things that have gone stale once already. I'm assuming they will want current versions of whatever qualified me, not a fond memory of 2023. I'll know more when I file. I'm not first in line.

Read the rule that will be in force when you extend, not Por. 3/2568 by habit. They already replaced the 2022 text once. Twenty working days is a minimum before expiry, and it assumes the file is complete. Start earlier than that if a police certificate or a valuation is in the pile.

And the endorsement letter, when it comes, will have its own short life if they treat it like the first one. Don't request it eleven months early and then travel.

Renew the passport first. Then have the stay transferred. The permission cannot outlive the passport you are holding. Do it months before March, not the week your flight is. I did this in 2024 and the end date of the five years survived. The passport expiry stopped being the limit.

Bring both books. The officer wanted to see the old stamp, not a photocopy of it. I had packed the old passport in a different bag, which is a special kind of mistake.

Don Mueang was ordinary immigration and perfectly fine. Don't plan a connection so tight that it depends on the BKK lane existing in another airport.

The visa does not require you to sit in Thailand all year. Tax residence is a different statute. Count the days with your accountant if the plan is to stay under 180. Immigration, on the yearly report, cared that my address was real, not that I had been at it every week.

Tell the landlord someone is still the tenant. An empty condo that gets reported as someone else's is how August becomes interesting.

Lead with the tax assessment. Use Wise as a supporting trail of receipt, not as the proof of income. A balance that is always low is fine if the assessment shows the year's total. Label the transfers so a stranger can see salary in, rent out, without learning your life.

I'm sorry. Consolidated accounts are not the wholly-owned test. One hundred percent is a fact on a register, not a vibe in a footnote. If the parent does not own you outright, the parent's revenue is not your revenue.

For what it's worth, the register was the page they stared at in my file. Not the brand deck. If you rebuild the structure, file a new application. Don't send the old one back with a cover note.

WFT is any master's or higher for that lower band. The science-and-technology master's is a Highly-Skilled condition. Don't import it into the remote-worker file and confuse yourself. The employer test is still there. The degree does not replace the listed company or the revenue.

Put the diploma and the transcript in English. A photo of a framed certificate was what they rejected for a colleague, which still makes me laugh.

I have been in and out four times on this stamp. No re-entry permit. The fast-track lane at Suvarnabhumi still exists. Bring the passport you were stamped in, not a new blank one you meant to transfer.

I did the same. The original acceptance doesn't freeze the premium or the clause. Mine tried to drop the Thailand limit on renewal and I made them put it back before I paid.

Automatic is the most expensive word in this process. I have heard it about TM30, about insurance renewals, and about the five-year extension. None of those are automatic.

We had the building juristic file it and the PDF still spelled our child as the main applicant. Check the names. Don't just check that a PDF exists.

Residence certificate was the document I didn't know I needed for the bank either. Immigration issued it. Budget an afternoon, not a favour from the visa.

I can't give you a university data point. I can say the targeted-industry test was still real for us in electronics. 'The field got wider' did not mean 'the field got fuzzy'. Bring the employment contract that says university, public, and the subject.

Public university, public research agency, public specialised training institute, or other public agency. Private international school is not that list. If the employer is private, the income floor comes back.

Day count was the part I was sloppy about. I had excluded two transits. My accountant put them back. Cheap mistake to almost make.

Second year filing, same shape as last August. The exemption was claimed properly and the return still existed. Anyone selling 'LTR, no filing' is still wrong in 2026.

The category is children under 20. I would not assume a birthday extends a qualification he no longer meets. Ask the BOI with the document number in the mail, not a forum, and ask before February, not on the day.

Good. Bring the letter, passport, insurance, and the fee, and read the appointment floor the night before. Congratulations, in the limited way this process allows.

And write down which rule you were approved under. If you ever extend, 'I think the officer was nice' is not a file.

Phuket version of the same advice. The nice pool is not the document. I picked the unit with the worse view and the landlord who answers LINE.