Thailand Investor Visa — Privilege

The lowest level is 650,000 baht, and it is a membership fee rather than invested capital — a distinction that governs how the whole route should be read. Nothing is bought, no company is formed, and nothing is recoverable: the applicant pays a fee for membership, and that membership carries a long-term visa.

The operator prints all five tiers in one table, and the table rises on two axes at once, money and duration. Fees are in baht and validity in years:

The top tier carries a condition money cannot meet, printed directly above the tier name: by invitation only. The 5,000,000 baht level is therefore not a door open to anyone who can pay.

A sixth row on the same table speaks about the past and matters when reading older material: membership packages from before October 2023 are marked discontinued, with validity to be confirmed by the contact centre and points to be confirmed with member services.

Anyone reading a price list older than that date is reading a product range no longer sold. Every baht amount on the page is tied to a tier, so no other charge is mixed in.

The outcome is membership carrying a long-term visa, and what matters most is what it is not: not permanent residence, not citizenship, and not a status that relieves the holder of the ordinary obligations of a foreigner in Thailand.

The proof sits inside the operator's own rules: members must still make the 90-day report and must still apply for stay extension like any other visa holder — obligations that would not exist if this were a residence class.

The operator describes the product as a long-term visa valid for up to 20 years and more.

The legal standing of the issuer also needs stating, because it is not an immigration authority:

Thailand Privilege Card Company Limited was founded on 29 August 2003 and is a limited company, but by its own account it is a state enterprise, born of a project of Thailand's Ministry of Tourism and Sports, with the Tourism Authority of Thailand as its sole shareholder.

This table records that standing together with a note on source quality: it is a self-description on the company's own site, and this verification round found no page on a Thai government domain confirming it at origin.

Every figure in this record's cells is therefore a commercial term published by the operator rather than a rule issued by an immigration authority.

The term is not one figure but a five-step ladder, and it is bought with money: 5 years for Bronze, 5 for Gold, 10 for Platinum, 15 for Diamond and 20 for Reserve.

The first two tiers share the same 5 years while differing by 250,000 baht, so that gap buys privilege points rather than extra time — a detail easily lost when comparing price lists.

But the membership term is not a period of uninterrupted stay, and this is the costliest misreading of the route.

Inside that term the holder still runs on two much shorter cycles. The first is the 90-day report, repeating throughout the membership; quota-type memberships get four services a year, that is one every 90 days, while point-type memberships must redeem points for the same service.

Individual and founding members must make the report themselves at the immigration bureaus. The second is stay extension, required within the same period, lodged at the provincial immigration office covering the area of residence, and openable at most 30 days in advance.

A Reserve member who has bought 20 years must therefore complete both procedures dozens of times across those 20 years.

Residence rights here are thinner than the route's name suggests, and the fastest way to see it is to read what members must still do themselves.

Stay extension is filed at the provincial immigration office for the area of residence, and the officer extends permission in accordance with the member's visa — so the right to stay is still decided by the immigration authority, not by the membership tier.

The procedure cannot be delegated: the member must be physically present for a photograph and fingerprint scan in the presence of the officer.

The processing fee is 1,900 baht, and the operator notes it is subject to change because it is set by the Immigration Bureau rather than by them.

The document set runs to the passport, two photocopies of specified pages including the biographical page, the current visa and the latest entry stamp with all extension stamps, two passport-size photographs, the TM6 departure card, the membership card, the M30 notification receipt and a completed TM7 form.

Where the 90-day report can be made is also limited geographically: Bangkok at the head office, plus Chonburi, Chiang Mai and Phuket at representative offices, with other areas only as the company designates.

And the consequence of missing a deadline is not light: the operator describes an overstayer as possibly having to appear before a Judge, paying overstay fines, and in prolonged cases being detained at the immigration detention centre until they arrange a direct flight home, with the passport stamped with a blacklist mark.

Responsibility for tracking the permitted period is stated to rest on the foreigner.

The package table Thailand Privilege Card currently sells contains no family package.

The five live packages each carry one fee for one member, and none includes a place for a spouse or a child. Fees are in baht (THB):

Packages bearing the word family survive only in a separate block labelled as the membership packages that existed before October 2023, and that block records the fee as discontinued: Elite Family Premium, Elite Family Alternative and Elite Family Excursion sit in that group, meaning they are now a status held by earlier buyers rather than a door open to new applicants.

The programme's own FAQ tightens this once more on the service side: the membership card is non-transferable and may be used only by the member whose name and photograph appear on it, all privileges are for the member alone, and even the transfer service requires the member personally to be travelling on the flight in question.

These figures should be read for what they are: the source is the sales site of Thailand Privilege Card Co., Ltd. — a state enterprise under the Tourism Authority of Thailand — so these are commercial terms declared by the seller, not a legal instrument governing the visa.

The status this programme grants, whether a visa or a residence permit, does not replace the holder's passport. The holder still travels on the passport of their own country, so the figure below belongs to the Thailand passport and becomes the holder's only once they are issued a Thailand passport.

According to the Passport Index of Prosperous Intelligence, on data dated 30 September 2026, the Thailand passport reaches 70 destinations without applying for a consular visa in advance. The figure combines three forms of entry and does not count an e-Visa that must be obtained beforehand:

It is therefore a measure of how easily the holder travels, not a count of visa-free countries in the narrow sense.

For comparison, on the same source and the same method of counting, the Vietnamese passport reaches 44 destinations. The two lists of destinations do not nest inside one another, so the difference is an indication rather than a list of places newly opened.

Prosperous Intelligence dates its data and advises checking with the destination’s official authorities before travelling.

The first tier has not been verified at an official source: the membership instrument could not be checked on the sites of the operating company, including thailandprivilege.co.th and thailandelite.com.

What follows is second-tier material taken from the Revenue Department of Thailand. A resident is any person residing in Thailand for a period or periods aggregating more than 180 days in any tax year, the tax year being the calendar year.

A resident is liable on income from sources in Thailand and on the portion of foreign-source income brought into Thailand, while a non-resident is liable only on income from sources in Thailand.

The progressive scale exempts the first 150,000 baht and then runs at 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35 percent, the top rate applying above 4,000,000 baht.

One version warning is legible on the page itself: this English text still carries a note that the schedule is to be implemented for the 2013 and 2014 tax years, so it cannot be treated as current.

This sum of 50,000 baht is not an amount added on top of the membership fee, and the table has to correct itself on that point: the operator states that the sum will be deductible as part of the membership fee if the applicant is approved by the immigration office.

It is money paid in advance, not a fee stacked on a fee. It is paid with the application, is inclusive of value-added tax, and is charged per membership.

The portal accepts an application only with proof of payment attached, together with a submission form the applicant fills in and signs; an application missing that form or that proof will not be processed to the background check — the money therefore moves before the file is even considered.

The way it may be paid is narrower than people expect: the operator states plainly that it cannot process this payment through credit cards or any other online channel, and accepts only direct deposit or bank transfer.

The risk sits in two refund conditions, and both lean towards the seller. The sum is refundable only where the result of the background check is that the immigration office does not approve, and even then a processing fee is deducted; in every other circumstance it is non-refundable.

And if the applicant fails to complete payment within thirty days of receiving the invoice, the operator reserves the right not to refund what was paid, and the applicant must file a fresh application with a further 50,000 baht.

Every sentence cited above has been checked against the announcement page of the operator.