Which Thailand visa do you actually need?
Five quick questions. We narrow 12 visa options down to your best 1–3 fits — based on age, plans, budget, and family. No email required to see results.
Best-fit visa
We rank your top match plus 1–2 alternates with reasoning.
Real costs
Annual cost estimate including extensions, insurance, fees.
Next steps
Direct link to that visa's full page + book a free consult.
Why a visa quiz, and how it complements the comparison matrix
Thailand has 12 main long-stay visa categories, each with different requirements, costs, and use cases. The Thai government's official documentation is fragmented across BOI, Immigration Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and individual embassy websites. Even immigration lawyers in Pattaya don't always agree on which visa is best for a given situation.
Our visa-finder quiz cuts through this. Five questions about your age, intent, duration, budget, and family situation surface the 1–3 visas that are realistic fits — out of the 12 possibilities. The ranking reflects actual practice in Pattaya: which visas immigration officers process smoothly for people in your situation, which agents recommend for which profiles, and which visas Pattaya residents actually use.
What the quiz can and can't do
- Can: narrow 12 options to your top 1–3 fits in 60 seconds
- Can: show realistic costs and forward paths for each match
- Can: link directly to detailed visa pages for the top match
- Can't: guarantee approval — final decision is the embassy/immigration's
- Can't: assess specific complications (prior overstays, criminal record, atypical income)
- Can't: replace a real consultation for borderline cases
For complex situations
If your situation involves any of these, the quiz is a starting point but not a complete answer:
- Prior Thai visa refusal or overstay
- Criminal record (any country)
- Working multiple roles (some Thai-source, some foreign)
- Pre-existing health conditions affecting O-A insurance qualification
- Family with dependents from multiple nationalities
- Tax structures involving multiple countries
For these, book a free 15-minute consultation after taking the quiz.
What the underlying logic does
Each visa has a score that responds to the 5 quiz inputs. Scoring weights real-world fit: heavy weight to hard requirements (50+ for retirement visas, Thai marriage for Marriage Non-O, BOI sector for SMART), medium weight to budget and duration fit, lighter weight to family and lifestyle preferences. Negative scores knock out impossible visas (e.g., Retirement scores -99 for under-50 applicants).
The quiz's answers reflect what we'd actually recommend in a 15-minute consultation. They're consistent with the full visa pages on this site and with what agents in Pattaya recommend for clean profiles.