{
  "id": "th-retirement-visa-threshold",
  "title": "Thai retirement-extension financial floor",
  "metric": "Non-O retirement extension — bank deposit OR monthly income requirement",
  "unit": "THB",
  "kind": "cost",
  "volatility": "annual",
  "direction_note": "The financial floor a retiree must show to hold the annual extension of stay. The deposit must be seasoned before and maintained after the application and cannot be spent while it seasons, so a higher floor locks up more capital. The O-A visa route carries an additional USD-denominated health-insurance mandate that is tracked as a stated claim in the visa-floor tool, not in this THB series.",
  "publisher": "No Margin Left",
  "source": {
    "label": "Royal Thai Embassy consular O-A / retirement pages; Royal Thai Police / Immigration Bureau order line (327/2557)",
    "url": "https://www.thaiembassy.at/en/type-of-visa/non-immigrant-visa-o-a-long-stay-retirement-stay-visa-in-english.html"
  },
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "No Margin Left, \"Thai retirement-extension financial floor\" (Non-O retirement extension — bank deposit OR monthly income requirement). CC BY 4.0. https://nomarginleft.com/data/th-retirement-visa-threshold.json",
  "canonical": "https://nomarginleft.com/data/th-retirement-visa-threshold.json",
  "csv": "https://nomarginleft.com/data/th-retirement-visa-threshold.csv",
  "retrieved": "2026-09-06",
  "stale": false,
  "observations": [
    {
      "date": "2014",
      "value": 800000,
      "source": {
        "label": "Royal Thai Police Order 327/2557 (triangulated via consular pages)"
      },
      "confidence": "triangulated",
      "note": "Bank-deposit method for the annual retirement extension of stay: 800,000 THB held in a Thai bank. Set under the Royal Thai Police / Immigration order line (Police Order 327/2557, B.E. 2557). Monthly-income alternative 65,000 THB/month; combination (deposit + annualised income) must total at least 800,000 THB/year. Anchor date approximate to the order; the Thai-language order text was not read directly, hence triangulated."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09",
      "value": 800000,
      "source": {
        "label": "Royal Thai Embassy Vienna consular O-A page; seasoning via Siam Legal (secondary)",
        "url": "https://www.thaiembassy.at/en/type-of-visa/non-immigrant-visa-o-a-long-stay-retirement-stay-visa-in-english.html"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-09-06",
      "note": "Current confirmed reading. Deposit method 800,000 THB; income method 65,000 THB/month; combination at least 800,000 THB/year. The deposit must be seasoned about two months before the extension and maintained three months after, and is widely reported not to fall below 400,000 THB the rest of the year (seasoning mechanics are triangulated from consular and law-firm sources, not a primary order). The plain Non-O retirement extension carries NO statutory health-insurance mandate — that requirement belongs to the O-A visa route (US$100,000 including COVID-19, MFA/MoPH guideline, new applications from 2021-10-01, applied to renewals from 2022-09-01), which is a distinct instrument."
    }
  ],
  "corrections": []
}