While I prepare documents for a student visa, in parallel we are trying to solve the visa question and for my mother. By age, she is easily (as it seemed to us) can be issued a pension visa. At the very least, all sites joyfully sign the charms of life of old-age people in Thailand, as well as how the government to attract rich pensioners to visit themselves, facilitated the process of obtaining visas. In fact, everything turned out not quite so. And if it is accurate - not at all.
It turns out that an immigraishn-office staff requires everything - nothing: the presence of a pensioner in the Thai bank bank of 800 thousand baht. And so that money lay there at least three months. For a happy accident rate, about this amount was found at Mom - the truth, in the Russian bank. However, when we made a request, how to translate this money in Thailand, we were answered: legally - almost in any way. After all, you must first get permission from the Russian tax service (proving preliminarily that these money without criminal past). Then, in unknown ways to open an account in the Thai bank (it does not open it without a pension or any other long-term visa). In short, a vicious circle is obtained. To understand all these nuances, you can go to any legal office in Phuket, which only for 20 thousand baht will try to resolve the issue with a pension visa for the next year (the account in the Thai bank nevertheless still must have a place to be).
In short, no matter how cool, only a student visa is the easiest legal way to be in the territory of Thailand how long. In addition, non-immigrant-ED makes it possible to get, for example, Thai rights to driving a car. Or open the notorious account in the bank.
One problem: Learn English or Thai my mother is not going at all. But this question, it turns out, is solved simply. With the owner of one of the language schools, we quickly find a common language, sorry for the tautology: they make a visa for my mom, and attend courses I, her daughter. In order not to repeat (I have already paid an annual course of English for myself, your beloved), this time I already choose Italian. Eh, now the main thing is to find an extra couple of hours a day to catch everything and everything.
Continued ...
Read the previous history of Olga here, and where it all starts - here.