The money sideof retiring here.
There are two ways to evidence the money, and one of them fails for reasons of timing rather than amount. This page sets out the shape of both, and where the dates matter more than the balance.
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General information, not advice about your case. Procedures change, so where a detail matters to your application we confirm it with you rather than print a figure here that could be out of date.
Two routes, one file
Most retirement applications that come back were complete. They were read on the wrong day.
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The two routes
Jump to sectionA deposit held in a Thai account, or a monthly income evidenced from abroad.
Seasoning
Jump to sectionMoney in the account is not the same as money that counts, and the difference is time.
The income letter
Jump to sectionThe document some embassies write and some no longer do, by nationality.
Combining both
Jump to sectionWhere a deposit and an income are used together, and what that changes.
Two ways to show the money
The amount is the easy part. The dates around it are what decide the application.
The deposit route
A sum held in a Thai bank account in your own name, evidenced by a letter from the bank and the book itself. The application asks not only what the balance is on the day, but what it has been for a period before it.
The income route
A monthly income arriving from outside Thailand, evidenced either by a letter from your embassy or by the transfers themselves. Which of those two is available to you depends on your nationality, and it has changed for several countries in recent years.
Seasoning, and why the timing catches people
Money in the account is not the same as money that counts. If an account is going to support a retirement application, the timing of the deposits matters as much as the balance, and it needs planning months ahead rather than weeks.
This is the commonest reason a file that looks complete is sent home. Nothing is missing. It simply arrived too recently.
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Tell us where your money sits and when it got there. We will tell you which route works, and the week to begin.
The letter, by nationality
Some embassies write it, some stopped, and some write something that is not quite it.
What the letter is for
It is a statement from your own embassy confirming your income. Where it is available it is the shortest path, because it answers the question in one page instead of twelve months of statements.
Where each nationality stands
The position differs by country and it has moved more than once. We hold the current position for the nationalities we see most in Hua Hin, and we publish it here only when it has been checked rather than remembered.
What banks in Hua Hin will write
Branches differ on the letter they will issue, how quickly, and how long it stays fresh. Two branches of the same bank a mile apart will treat the same request differently, which is not personal and is not worth arguing about.
Combining a deposit and an income
Some applicants meet the requirement with a mixture of the two rather than either alone. Whether that is open to you, and in what proportion, is a question with a current answer rather than a permanent one.
The page this guide feeds
One service page, and the two guides that sit either side of it.
Retirement visas in Hua Hin
Read the guideNon-Immigrant O and O-A applications, prepared against what the office asks for this year.
Retirement routes compared
Read the guideThe three retirement routes side by side, and which one your circumstances point at.
The admin calendar
Read the guideEvery recurring filing, when it falls, and how the dates interact.