The Ten Year Visa…New and Improved or Too Much?

Retired expats in Thailand are all talking about the newly proposed ten year O-A visa, also known as the retirement visa. The immigration department of Thailand has a habit of releasing incomplete information and this has caused quite a bit of distress among expats.

The ten year visa isn’t really a ten year visa though. It’s a five year visa that is renewed, or extended for another five year. This may seem like semantics, however, if you consider that most expats first are issued a three month O-A visa before receiving an extension of stay for one year, it becomes much more important.

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