Thailand.
How Thailand sells residence for investors (golden visa): 2 residence programmes, 2 of them open today. Every number and rule below links to the document it comes from.
8 documents and articles behind this page, listed at the bottom.
Residence
Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later. Thailand: 2 residence programmes, 2 of them open today; 2,553 numbers, 79 prices and rules. Every country's residence programmes
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Does not lead to permanent residence or citizenship.
- Status
- Open · since 2022
- Lowest price for one person
- Last change
Does not lead to permanent residence or citizenship.
- Status
- Lowest price for one person
- Top nationalities
- Last change
Long-Term Resident visa (wealthy citizens)
Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later.
Citizenship. Does not lead to permanent residence or citizenship. (from the research notes below)
Official name: Long-Term Resident (LTR) visa - Wealthy Global Citizens category
US$500,000 in Thai government bonds, companies or property, plus US$1 million in assets (which may include it; t-71c5501c54). Amount as published 2025-26; whether the same at launch not checked.
Notes from the research
Ten-year renewable visa run by the Board of Investment, open since 1 September 2022, in four categories; only 'Wealthy Global Citizens' requires an investment: US$500,000 in Thai government bonds, Thai companies or Thai property, plus US$1m in assets and health insurance. Visa fee 50,000 baht per person. No route to permanent residence or citizenship is part of the scheme. The text creating the visa (Cabinet resolution and implementing announcements) is not stored: 'launched' is the day applications opened, as stated by the Board of Investment, not the founding text's in-force date.
Prices and rules
What is measured
- Processing time2
- People identified as eligible for an investor residence scheme1
Thailand Privilege Card
Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later.
Citizenship. Does not lead to permanent residence or citizenship. (from the research notes below)
Official name: Thailand Privilege Card (Thailand Elite until 2023)
A non-refundable membership fee, not an investment; it is what buys the long-stay visa, so it is the price. Bronze (5 years) THB 650,000; Gold THB 900,000 (t-fe90282c4d).
Notes from the research
Paid membership sold by Thailand Privilege Card Co. (formerly Thailand Elite Card Co.), a state enterprise owned by the Tourism Authority of Thailand, that comes with a long-stay 'privilege entry' visa for the membership period plus concierge services. It is a fee, not an investment that can be recovered. Packages before October 2023 (Thailand Elite) are discontinued; since then Gold (900,000 baht, 5 years), Platinum (1.5m, 10 years), Diamond (2.5m, 15 years), Reserve (5m, 20 years) and Bronze (650,000 baht, 5 years). No route to permanent residence or citizenship. 'launched' is the date of the Cabinet resolution (29 July 2003) that set up the company to run the membership card project, per the company's 2025 annual report; the resolution states no separate in-force date, and the date the first cards were sold is not in a stored document.
Who buys
Prices and rules
What is measured
- Members of a residence-linked membership scheme (stock)1,496
- Programme agency balance sheet672
- Government spending on running a CBI programme110
- Programme agency cash flows86
- CBI unit revenue62
- Net income of the programme agency34
- Residence-linked memberships sold32
- All money paid by buyers, including property purchases31
- Benefit uses by programme members13
- Money the programme handed to the government4
- Applicant share2
- Programme board meetings2
- and 5 more; see Explore below.
What we know is missing
- Long-Term Resident visa (wealthy citizens): no yearly figures at all for applications or people let in or money raised.
- Thailand Privilege Card: no yearly figures at all for applications or people let in or money raised.
- 1 of the 8 documents we hold from here has been read only in part; what remains is listed in the coverage file.
- Can't be extracted: (a) cells that cannot be read: row 18 Cambodian GOLD-EFE (a '6' and a smudged digit; legible cells 379 vs printed 388), row 49 Republic of Belarus Bronze (a faint mark; 31 vs 32), row 58 Nepalese PLATINUM-ESE (a distorted digit; 25 vs printed 17); (b) Grand Totals hidden behind the page label for row 60 Sri Lankan and row 61 Maltese ('Page 1 of 3') and row 119 Ugandan ('Page 2 of 3'); (c) very faint marks in the Elite Flexible One column for row 1 Chinese and row 17 Singapore; (d) nine nationalities not printed at all (row numbers 53, 59, 117, 120-125); (e) on p. 5 the Elite Flexible One row prints an extra '3' that fits no column. A better copy of the document would be needed.
A gap means no figure is in our data: either it was never published or we haven't found or read it yet. Charts leave gaps open rather than drawing across them.
All the numbers we have for Thailand
2,553 numbers about Thailand's residence programmes. Pick a programme and what you want to see. Each dot is one number from one document; click anything to open its source.
What happened, and when
The 8 documents behind this page
- 2026-09 · Governmentโครงสร้างสมาชิกแยกตามสัญชาติและประเภทของสมาชิก ณ วันที่ 30 กันยายน 2568 (Thailand Privilege member profile) · Thailand Privilege Card Co., Ltd., data catalogue
- 2026-09 · Governmentภาพรวมผลการดำเนินงานสำหรับปีงบประมาณ 2568 (รายได้จากการขายบัตรปีงบประมาณ 2568) · Thailand Privilege Card Co., Ltd., data catalogue
- 2026-09 · GovernmentMembership package table: Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Reserve, Bronze and Thailand Privilege Pass · Thailand Privilege Card Co., Ltd., data catalogue ('card' dataset)
- 2026-03 · Governmentรายงานประจำปี 2568 (Annual Report 2025), Thailand Privilege Card Co., Ltd. · Thailand Privilege Card Co., Ltd.
- 2026-03 · Governmentจำนวนสมาชิกใหม่ งบประมาณ 2568 ณ วันที่ 30 กันยายน 2568 (Annual Report 2568, p. 91: รายงานการดำเนินงานด้านการขาย) · Thailand Privilege Card Co., Ltd. (บริษัท ไทยแลนด์ พริวิเลจ คาร์ด จำกัด), data catalogue
- 2026 · GovernmentLTR Visa: Long-Term Resident Visa (official website) · Thailand Board of Investment (BOI)
- 2026 · GovernmentExisting Membership packages before October 2023 (web page) · Thailand Privilege Card Co., Ltd.
- 2025 · GovernmentLong-Term Resident (LTR) Visa brochure 2025 · Thailand Board of Investment (BOI), Thailand Investment and Expat Services Center (TIESC)
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