Thailand Privilege Visa (ex-Elite)

Requirements

• A membership fee, paid once, by tier: Bronze ฿650,000 for 5 years, Gold ฿900,000 for 5 years, Platinum ฿1,500,000 for 10 years, Diamond ฿2,500,000 for 15 years, Reserve ฿5,000,000 for 20 years and by invitation only. Every figure includes VAT and none is refundable once you are in
• A ฿50,000 application fee, paid by bank transfer before the checks start. It is deducted from the membership fee if you are approved and refunded, minus processing, only if Immigration rejects you — any other withdrawal forfeits it
• No income test, no asset test, no age floor and no employment requirement — the operator's own comparison page says so in as many words. Multi-passport holders are the one group asked for proof of income and source of funds
• A foreign passport with more than a year left and at least three blank pages
• A clean record on the terms' own list: no prison sentence in any country other than for negligence, never adjudicated bankrupt or of unsound mind, not on a watch list, not linked to money laundering or financial crime, and no more than one overstay in Thailand in the past three years
• Approval from all four checking bodies — the Immigration Bureau, the Department of Consular Affairs, the Royal Thai Police's foreign affairs division and the Central Investigation Bureau
• No health insurance is required, and no employment is permitted

How to apply

1. Choose a tier and apply online at thailandprivilege.co.th, or through one of the operator's authorised agents. Pay the ฿50,000 application fee by bank transfer
2. The four-agency background check runs: the operator quoted four to six weeks and, in January 2026, warned that some cases are taking longer. The Department of Consular Affairs issues the approval letter by email, within two months
3. Pay the membership fee within 30 days of the invoice or the ฿50,000 is forfeited. The membership is activated within a week of payment
4. Have the Privilege Entry visa affixed on arrival at a Thai international airport, at a Royal Thai Embassy or Consulate, or at the Chaeng Watthana Immigration Bureau in Bangkok. It is a five-year multiple-entry visa; on the longer tiers it is re-issued every five years for the rest of the term
5. Each entry gives one year. To stay longer without leaving, extend at the provincial immigration office for your residence — ฿1,900, in person, up to 30 days before the stamp expires
6. File the 90-day report yourself at Immigration, within 15 days before or 7 after the period ends, or use the operator's passport drop-off service inside your tier's quota. Missing it costs ฿2,000, and 365 consecutive days in Thailand means presenting yourself at the Immigration Bureau

Renewal and long-term stay

• Renewable: no — a single fixed term

SOURCE: the terms and conditions of each tier, served from mis.thailandprivilege.co.th and linked from the operator's card API, read 2026-09-07 — Bronze form B_N2024_001, Gold G_N2025_001, Platinum P_C2023_001, Diamond D_C2023_001, Reserve R_C2023_001. Each fixes the membership term (clause 2.3 or 2.4: five, five, ten, fifteen and twenty years) and lists no renewal fee for the four open tiers, only an upgrade fee — ฿100,000 (฿150,000 from Bronze) plus the price difference, with notice six months before the term ends. Only Reserve renews: clause 2.6, five years at a time for ten percent of the prevailing fee. Recorded as not renewable because that is what the terms say for every tier a reader can actually buy; whether a lapsed member may purchase a new membership is not published. max_total_years records 5 — the Bronze and Gold term, and the validity of the visa sticker on every tier — so that it describes the same tier cost_usd does; the ten-, fifteen- and twenty-year terms are in the requirements. The visa itself is a five-year multiple-entry sticker, re-issued within the term on the longer tiers, with one year of stay per entry and in-country extension at ฿1,900.

Applying: where and how

• Apply from outside the country: yes — apply before you travel
• Where you file: online
• Income requirement as published: No income test — a membership fee from ฿650,000 buys the stay

SOURCES, each read on 2026-09-07: the operator's card list API and the /thailandprivilegecard page (tiers and prices), the five tier terms-and-conditions PDFs (fees, VAT, eligibility clause 6, transfer, refund), the qualifications and declaration sheets on the application forms, the /living-in-thailand FAQ, the 90-day-report and stay-extension pages, the membership-fee announcement of 18 January 2024, the fee-exemption notice covering 1 September to 31 December 2024, the background-check delay notice of 7 January 2026, the next-member promotion of 14 August 2026 (which ran until 30 September 2026; re-checked on 2026-10-01 with the news API, the next-member terms PDFs for cards 163 to 165 and the supplementary-card leaflet of 17 September 2026), and the /about history page. cost_usd and max_total_years both describe Bronze, the cheapest tier — about $18,200 at the rate used across this dataset, for five years; the operator's only dollar figure is "starting at $25,000", which predates Bronze. ⚠ THE MARKETING PAGES CONTRADICT THE TERMS IN THREE PLACES, and this record follows the terms and the dated notices: (1) one comparison page says there is no 90-day reporting duty; the FAQ, the form's own declaration and the reporting page say there is. (2) One article says members can work through a Flexible Plus route on a $1 million investment; the retirement page says the membership permits no employment, and no current package or terms document mentions Flexible Plus. (3) Six /why-thailand articles price the family add-on at ฿500,000, an earlier offer; the next-member terms and the September 2026 leaflet say ฿1,000,000, ฿1,500,000 or ฿2,000,000 by tier, VAT included, and the ฿750,000 promotion ended on 30 September 2026. The operator's card list API still showed 750000 for all three tiers on 1 October 2026, so the price is disputed until the operator updates one or the other. NOT A VISA: the operator also sells a Thailand Privilege Pass (Lite ฿9,900 to Corporate ฿500,000, one year) that carries no visa at all. It shares the brand and the website; it is not this record. WHAT IS NOT CLAIMED: nothing is published on permanent residency, citizenship, nationality restrictions or re-entry permits, and the exact launch day of the October 2023 relaunch is not stated on any official page, so none of that appears here.

Bringing a partner or children

• Dependants: yes — a partner and children can be included

SOURCE: the next-member terms for Platinum, Diamond and Reserve and the operator's family-benefits page, read 2026-09-07. Immediate Family Member is defined as "a biological parent, step-parent, married spouse, civil union partner (with certificate legally issued by relevant authority), or children and legally adopted children of the Member"; the family page adds that same-sex spouses recognised under Thai law qualify and that no age cap or medical screening applies. Bronze and Gold have no next-member terms at all. Regular fees, VAT included: ฿1,000,000 on Platinum, ฿1,500,000 on Diamond, ฿2,000,000 on Reserve. RE-CHECKED 2026-10-01 against the next-member terms PDFs for cards 163, 164 and 165 (term-condition-next.pdf, last modified 31 March 2026) and the supplementary-card leaflet uploaded to /download on 17 September 2026, which both carry those regular fees. The next-member promotion of 14 August 2026 set ฿750,000 flat "Now until September 30, 2026", and the operator's news API, read 2026-10-01, lists no extension or replacement, so this record treats it as ended. ⚠ The operator's card list API still returned additional_card_fee 750000 for all three tiers on 1 October 2026 at 08:27 UTC, with no VAT stated; this record follows the terms and the leaflet, and a buyer should ask the operator which price applies. Six /why-thailand articles on the operator's site, read 2026-10-01, still show ฿500,000, an earlier offer (among them /why-thailand/thailand-privilege-card-benefits-for-family), which is why this record cites the terms and not the articles.

Tax

• You become tax resident: after 180 days in the country
• Foreign income taxed locally: yes — taxed once you become tax resident
• Special nomad or expat tax regime: no — ordinary resident rates apply

SOURCE: the operator's own LTR comparison page, read 2026-09-07 — "Thailand Privilege does not provide tax advantages" — and nothing else; it publishes no tax guidance at all. So the general rule applies, the same one every other Thai route on this site carries: 180 days in a calendar year makes you a Thai tax resident, not the 183 most countries use, and foreign income earned since 1 January 2024 is taxable when you remit it into Thailand. A member who stays the full year on the visa is over that line.

This summarises published rules, not your situation, and it is not tax advice. Two things it can't tell you: your home country may tax you anyway — US citizens are taxed on worldwide income wherever they live — and day-count is only the most common trigger for tax residency, not the only one. Having a permanent home, a family or your centre of economic interests in a country can make you resident well before the day count does. Get advice before you move.

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