Non-Immigrant O-X (10-Year Long Stay) Visa Thailand Services

It must be held with a bank located in Thailand only. Unlike some other visas, a foreign bank statement cannot be used. The account must be a savings or fixed deposit account in the applicant's sole name.

There are fairly strict rules on the deposit: • After you receive the visa and enter Thailand, the 3,000,000 THB must remain untouched in your Thai account for a full 1 year, with no withdrawals. • After the first year, you may withdraw funds for expenses, but the account must keep a balance of no less than 1,500,000 THB at all times, and any funds withdrawn must be spent within Thailand only.

When applying online, you can show a deposit of 1.8 million THB in Thailand together with an annual pension certificate of 1.2 million THB. However, there is an additional accumulation requirement: within a full 1 year of entering Thailand, you must top up your Thai account so that the total balance reaches 3,000,000 THB.

No. It must be a savings or fixed deposit account held solely in the name of the principal foreign applicant. Immigration will not consider a joint account.

The Non-O-X follows the original regulations: you must have Thai health insurance covering outpatient care (OPD) of at least 40,000 THB per year and inpatient care (IPD) of at least 400,000 THB per year. This differs from the 3 million THB requirement for the Non-O-A.

We recommend buying health insurance from a Thai insurer participating in the scheme via longstay.tgia.org, as this is the safest option: the system immediately issues a certificate in the exact format the embassy requires. If you use foreign insurance, your insurer must sign the Foreign Insurance Certificate form and the document must go through additional legalization.

It must be obtained from the national police authority of your country of nationality, and the document must be no more than 30-90 days old from its issue date to the date you upload it to the online application system.

Because legal and medical documents issued abroad must always first be authenticated (by Apostille or Notary Public) through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the issuing country. If you upload the original files without this, officers will reject them immediately.

Yes, it is a mandatory document for the Non-O-X. It should clearly summarise your education, past employment and the position you held before retiring, to present a transparent profile for security screening.

Yes, as usual. Even though it is a 10-year visa, the main provisions of the Immigration Act still require every foreigner staying in Thailand continuously for more than 90 days to report their address every 90 days.

Yes. Your spouse (no age limit) and children (under 20) can apply for a Non-O-X (Dependent) visa through the online system, following the principal applicant.

Your spouse and children must each also show a separate deposit of at least 3,000,000 THB in a Thai bank account. Alternatively, if the principal holds one large deposit, that account must be increased according to the number of family members (e.g. a combined family account holding a fixed balance in the proportion set by immigration). This makes it a dependent visa with very high financial requirements.

No Re-entry Permit is needed at all. Throughout the first 5-year validity of the visa, you can travel in and out of Thailand as many times as you like, and your visa entitlement and permitted stay will certainly not be lost.

You can prepare your bank and health insurance documents and apply for the second extension (TM.7) at an Immigration Bureau office within Thailand, around 30-45 days before expiry, without having to fly back to apply abroad.

Immigration will require a detailed bank statement covering past transactions to check your withdrawal history, specifically whether, after the first year, your balance ever fell below 1.5 million THB. If there was any period when the balance was short, you will no longer meet the visa criteria and the extension will not be granted.

It must be obtained from a bank branch in Thailand and issued on the same day you submit your application at immigration, or no more than 24 hours earlier, so that the figures in the system and in your bank book match in real time.

First obtain a new passport from your country's embassy in Thailand. Then take both the old and new passports to immigration to request a transfer of visa stamp (Transfer Stamp), and the remaining 5-year entitlement will be smoothly transferred to your new passport.

If your balance falls below the threshold, you will immediately no longer qualify for the Non-O-X visa. Immigration will not approve your extension in year 5, and your visa may even be revoked during the year if a random online check of linked bank data is carried out.

If maintaining the 3 million THB deposit for the Non-O-X is a burden, we recommend consulting ETHAIVISA to adjust your plan, either by switching to another premium visa option or to a standard Non-O retirement visa (800,000 THB deposit), which allows much more flexible cash management.

The Non-O-X has the highest deposit requirements of any visa and very complex international legal requirements, from cross-border legalization of police clearance certificates to strict rules on withdrawing funds during the year. A small mistake in financial planning could leave your multi-million-baht deposit frozen for nothing and put you at risk of a visa refusal. The ETHAIVISA team reviews the structure of your legalized documents, coordinates the opening of a Thai bank account and manages the entire E-Visa timeline end to end, turning complex international procedures into a smooth first-time approval, so that you can enjoy 10 secure, high-quality retirement years in Thailand.