Every residency door in the countries we track (the official income bars, the documents, the actual application sequence), each fact graded by how well it’s sourced, stamped with when we last verified it, and kept honestly separate from what YouTube and Reddit are saying.
Enter what you actually earn. Every published income route on this page sorts itself into doors that are open to you, doors within reach, and doors that ask for more, using the official bars below, nothing invented.Just visiting? These bars are for long-stay residency routes. Most passports need no income proof for a short trip. Check what your passport needs to enter →
Most trips never touch a residency visa: a tourist admission covers the stay, and no income proof is involved. Pick the two ends of your trip. The income bars further down are for the long-stay routes.
Thailand's Long-Term Resident visa, a ten-year framework with categories including a Work-from-Thailand Professional track for remote employees of established foreign firms.
The LTR is Thailand's Long-Term Resident visa, a ten-year framework split into categories, including a Work-from-Thailand track for remote employees of established foreign companies.
It offers a decade of stability and some tax perks that the shorter DTV does not.
The catch is that each category sets high bars on income, employer size or wealth, so it is aimed at high earners and investors rather than the average freelancer.
You hear about a ten-year Thai visa and start planning around it, assuming you qualify.
When you read the specific LTR category's thresholds, the income or employer requirements are set well above what your freelance work can show, and you realise it was built for high earners, not for someone at your stage.
A different term every day, out of the glossary. People mix this one up with DTV. read the full entry → · every term
We do our best to keep up, but visa policy moves faster than any website. Consulates change the rules, thresholds drift, offices reinterpret. If you found something newer than what’s above, or you just went through a process and reality didn’t match the paperwork, send it in. We verify every submission against the official source before updating, and if your fix lands, you get credit below.