How to apply a Pension Statement Issued From Your Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand to Apply For Thailand Retirement Visa?
If you desire to spend your retirement years in the blissful place of Thailand, you will be required to apply and be granted with a Thailand retirement visa. There are numerous documentary requirements that you need to comply with, but the authorities are much strict on financial aspect.
You have to own an Thai bank account with a savings or fix deposit of at least 800,000 Baht (must put 800,000 Baht in Thai Bank for 2 months before applying) or monthly income which may come from your pension only in the amount not less than 65,000 Baht. The account should be transferred in a Thai bank two months prior to your application and as a supporting documents you must secure from the embassy a letter for verification of your pension statement.
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When you visit you Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, there is a Pension statement form that will be provided to you. You just have to fill out the form with your pension income statement. Then you have to approach an officer for the signing of the form. The officer will sign as well as notarize the legal affidavit that you filled in, signed and sworn to. They usually do not check or ask for any proof to support the stated pension income wherever it came from (depending on which Embassy). You, alone, is the one making the statement of you pension income and is to sworn by you. Thus, should you include any false statement on the affidavit that you will prepare, you will be prosecuted and made liable by the consular official. Your embassy does not make any copies or record of this pension statement. So, whatever pension letter was issued the day you applied is the one to be presented to the immigration bureau. The embassy does not even set the period of validity of this letter as it depends on the set validity period of the immigration which is usually 1-3 years.Filed under
