Longer stays are the order of the day as visitors seek not just to experience these healthy ways fleetingly but to absorb maximum benefits over an extended period, while at the same time experiencing the country’s history and culture at a deeper level. Once the process of rejuvenation and enlightenment starts to bear fruit, the logic of making this choice becomes beautifully apparent and quite irresistible.
Have you ever thought about spending a year in a unique culture, living in a neighborhood, on an island, at the beach or in tropical highlands? Or growing orchids, playing golf on uncrowded courses.
Besides tourism, visitors are traveling to Thailand for medical treatment. Thailand has more than 450 private hospitals staffed by doctors and specialists who are internationally trained. They can offer an affordable alternative to the west. Treatments include heart surgery, cosmetic surgery, laser eye surgery and complex dental procedures.
What to do during your long-stay in Thailand
Enjoy the healthy Thai food and learn the art of Thai cooking
Enjoy the benefits of traditional Thai massage or learn the techniques for yourself at numerous resorts and spas, as well as the famous Wat Po in Bangkok
Enjoy traditional Thai healing in the form of a herbal steam bath designed to improve circulation, reduce stress and muscle fatigue, enhance the respiratory system, ease allergies and cure skin ailments.
Meditate your way to health and happiness.
Rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit in a distinctively Thai atmosphere at the finest of spas
Take up yoga and achieve harmony of mine, body and spirit
Experience the rejuvenating power of the 4,000 -year-old Chinese art of acupuncture, a technique that awakens the body’s self-healing responses and restores the balance of yin and yang.
Experience the holistic healing power of aromatherapy and wave good-bye to negative energies and depression.
Learn the Thai language for a better understanding of the country and its people, so making your long-stay more fun and meaningful.
Long Stay Visa Requirement
Qualifications for an Applicant
A foreign national whose age is 55 years or above
Not being prohibited from entering the Kingdom under the Immigration Act B.E. 2522 (A.D.1979)
Having in possession of money amounting not less than 800,000 Baht
Documents Required for Visa Approval
A copy of visa application form completely filled out.
Two passport-sized photos of the applicant taken within the past six months.
Photocopy of the applicant’s travel document with validity not less than 18months.
Financial documents (copy) as stated in “Qualifications”
Submission Channels for Documents
Applicants can submit their applications both at the Thai consular missions abroad and at the Office of the Immigration Bureau in Thailand.
The whole process will last about 1 - 1/2 months.
Procedures for Consideration and Issuance of Visa
From consular missions outside Thailand
Once the application form together with required documents submitted, the Consular officials are required to examine such documents to see that they are in good order and completed as stated in II., then they must be mailed throughthe pouch to the Ministry in Bangkok.
The Consular missions will be notified to issue visa to the individual applicant when the Office of Immigration Bureau has given approval.
The Consular official must request for financial documents (original ones) that the applicant has already complied with financial obligations previously stated. before granting the visa.
The Office of the Immigration Bureau
(Address : Section 1, Sub-Division 1, Immigration 1, Immigration Bureau, Soi Suan Plu, off South Sathorn Road, Sathorn District, Bangkok 10120.
Telephone 287-4948 (direct line) or 287-3101-10 ext.2236)
The following applicants may apply for this type of visa in Thailand:
Applicants undergoing Health Rehabilitation Program in hospitals or HealthCenters. These organizations will apply on behalf of the individual applicant.
Applicants who are spouses / parents / children of applicants above.
Applicants to whom the agencies or organizations approved by the Office of the Immigration Bureau have applied for visa on their behalf. The above mentioned applicants must have qualifications as previously stated.
Duration of Stay and Extension of Stay
Permission to stay in the Kingdom will be granted for one year upon arrival in the Kingdom.
Upon expiry date of such period , extension for one year at a time will be granted to this group of people as long as they meet the requirements as earlier stated and is at the discretion of the Immigration officer.
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