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Thailand visas

Browse Thailand’s main visa routes, or answer a few questions to narrow down the options worth investigating.

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Short visits

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Visa exemption and Visa on Arrival

Check the two short-entry schemes and which official nationality table applies to your arrival date.

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Tourist visa

Single-entry and multiple-entry visas for genuine tourism when a short-entry scheme does not fit the trip.

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Work, business and remote work

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Destination Thailand Visa (DTV)

The DTV route for remote work, qualifying activities and eligible family members.

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Non-B visa

The usual starting point for Thai employment and business, with work permission handled separately.

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SMART Visa

For founders of qualifying startups already established in Thailand and their eligible dependants.

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Family, study and retirement

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Education visa (Non-ED)

Compare ordinary ED study and training with ED Plus for full-time university degree students.

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Non-O family visa

Family and dependant routes for spouses, parents, children and eligible accompanying family members.

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Retirement visas

Compare the main age-based retirement and long-stay routes before choosing one.

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Long-stay and specialist options

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Long-Term Resident (LTR) visa

A selective BOI-run route for four defined applicant groups and their eligible dependants.

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Thailand Privilege

A paid long-stay programme for people who value convenience over keeping the cost down.

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Specialist visas

Routes for transit, media, research, religion, official work, medical treatment and other specific purposes.

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Practical visa and immigration guides

These are not visas, but they matter once you are travelling, working or living in Thailand.

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Thailand Digital Arrival Card (TDAC)

The online arrival form most non-Thai travellers must complete before entering Thailand.

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Work permits

Understand the separate permission to work, employer process and restricted-occupation checks.

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Visa extensions

How extensions of stay work and why the current permission and reason for staying matter.

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Changing visa status

When an in-country application may be possible and why timing and purpose control the route.

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Re-entry permits

Preserve an eligible current permission to stay when leaving and returning to Thailand.

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90-day reporting

The address-reporting requirement for qualifying long-stayers and the ways to complete it.

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Overstay rules

What to do about an overstay and the fines, detention and re-entry consequences involved.

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Permanent residence

Thailand’s quota-based permanent immigration status and its annual application process.

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Thai citizenship

An overview of naturalisation, marriage, descent and other routes under Thai nationality law.

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