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Real Estate, housing, house and land ownership / Re: Soil prices

« Last post by jos on January 08, 2024, 11:27:31 AM »

buyer beware, I did order garden soil a couple of months ago, it came in a truck, dumped it in the yard, was full of rocks and I mean FULL of rocks, ordered him to get a backhoe and put it back into his truck and cart it off the premises, load rejected. No money changed hands.

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Real Estate, housing, house and land ownership / Digging lake

« Last post by stevef on January 08, 2024, 10:16:10 AM »

What is the approximate daily rate for digging a lake will be a 1 rai lake and to use soil to build up land?

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Real Estate, housing, house and land ownership / Soil prices

« Last post by stevef on January 08, 2024, 10:14:52 AM »

What is the approximate price soil per truck load

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Isaan Thai Visa / Re: Non Immigrant O Extension Based on Marriage

« Last post by mudcat on January 08, 2024, 09:27:24 AM »

I received my LTR-WP (Long Term Resident - Wealthy Pensioner) visa at the end of October - I have not been back to the Immigration Office at Chang Arena since September when I transferred my extension of stay to my new passport and did my last 90-day report. 

The principal benefits to me are no contact with local immigration (1-year report), 10-years of validity (need to re-qualify at 5-years) and exemption from taxes on remitted funds from overseas (this may be important depending on your country of origin's tax treaty with Thailand - as a U.S. citizen with Social Security and a government pension I already was exempt [I think]).

The LTR visas are administered by BOI (Board of Investment  https://ltr.boi.go.th/).  Before getting your hopes up please understand that the requirements are designed to benefit Thailand by easing immigration rules for a small set of desired long term residents. 

The rules differ for each class, but for most of us up country expats would be applying for the same visa I received which requires a considerable amount of 'Passive" income (e.g. pensions, annuities, rental property, etc.) - the thresholds are USD80,000 per year for most, or USD 40,000 for those who are currently or are willing to invest ~USD250,000 into Thailand (and, no the house you built for your family will not count as you cannot not own it).  Additionally you need to demonstrate how you will pay for your health care (USD50,000 annual benefit) or show USD 100,000 in liquid assets (I used my U.S. Roth IRA, most need to show health insurance, but foreign policies are accepted unlike for the OA extensions). 

The only other possibilities for up-country folk is one is working in a highly skilled position that is designated by BOI as needed by Thailand (e.g. one of the pharmaceutical or high-tech companies in Korat) - for these people the Thai Income Tax is capped at 17%.

Worth taking a look at BOI's website and see if you believe you may qualify under one of the categories of visa they offer - if so I consider it a no brainer to apply to see if you really qualify as there is no cost until you are approved and travel to Bangkok to get the Visa and extension of stay stamped into your passport.

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Isaan Thai Visa / Re: Non Immigrant O Extension Based on Marriage

« Last post by Gerry on December 29, 2023, 06:13:36 PM »

There is no 90 day reporting for LTR visa.  You must report yearly unless you have crossed the border in the year.  As of April when I got mine, they do not allow the yearly reporting at any office other than the one in BKK that issues the LTR, but they insisted they will get the local offices up and running within the next year or so.

You are the first person I know who has obtained an LTR.

Could you post the application process, please?

Maybe start a new topic.

Thanks.

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Isaan Thai Visa / Re: Non Immigrant O Extension Based on Marriage

« Last post by DeputyDavid on December 29, 2023, 12:58:20 PM »

There is no 90 day reporting for LTR visa.  You must report yearly unless you have crossed the border in the year.  As of April when I got mine, they do not allow the yearly reporting at any office other than the one in BKK that issues the LTR, but they insisted they will get the local offices up and running within the next year or so.

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Real Estate, housing, house and land ownership / Re: house we just built in Surin

« Last post by stevef on December 29, 2023, 12:46:53 PM »

What is the square meter and price Alan how many bed /baths etc etc

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Isaan Thai Visa / Re: Non Immigrant O Extension Based on Marriage

« Last post by jos on December 08, 2023, 10:27:48 AM »

thanks Gerry, all clear
Jos

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Isaan Thai Visa / Re: Non Immigrant O Extension Based on Marriage

« Last post by Gerry on December 08, 2023, 09:27:22 AM »

thanks Gerry, it slowly starts to become clearer and clearer. It seems that the conversion process from a Non-Immigrant Visa "O" to a marriage visa is relatively straight forward.
There must be a well worn path leading to the IO...hi
Regards
Jos

Here's how I did it and the terminology seems to be.

I got a Non O visa based on being married from a Thai consulate. I entered Thailand and got 90 days stay. In the last 30 days I then went to Buriram immigration and got a 1 year extension. I've never heard it called convertion. It's the same Non O but the permission to stay is extended to 1 year.

Lots of documents required plus 400k baht in the bank for 2 months before I went to immigration. Then you must go back to immigration after about 1 month to get the stamp in your passport.

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Isaan Thai Visa / Re: Non Immigrant O Extension Based on Marriage

« Last post by jos on December 08, 2023, 03:07:44 AM »

thanks Gerry, it slowly starts to become clearer and clearer. It seems that the conversion process from a Non-Immigrant Visa "O" to a marriage visa is relatively straight forward.
There must be a well worn path leading to the IO...hi
Regards
Jos