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Thailand LTR Highly-Skilled Professional visa approvals (2022-2025)
~9K cumulative
Thailand's Long-Term Resident (LTR) visa for Highly-Skilled Professionals (HSP) launched September 2022 under BOI sponsorship. Cumulative HSP-track approvals are estimated at 9,000-10,000 through mid-2025 per BOI LTR centre disclosures, a small fraction of the wealthy-global-citizen and work-from-Thailand tracks. The HSP track offers a 10-year renewable visa, a flat 17% personal income tax rate on Thai-source employment income, and waives the standard 4-Thai-staff-per-foreigner rule. Targeted industries are S-Curve sectors: digital, electronics, EVs, biotech, medtech, agritech, robotics. Salary floor is USD 80K personal income (or USD 40K plus PhD or 10-year senior tenure).
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Thailand's Long-Term Resident (LTR) visa for Highly-Skilled Professionals (HSP) launched September 2022 under BOI sponsorship. Cumulative HSP-track approvals are estimated at 9,000-10,000 through mid-2025 per BOI LTR centre disclosures, a small fraction of the wealthy-global-citizen and work-from-Thailand tracks. The HSP track offers a 10-year renewable visa, a flat 17% personal income tax rate on Thai-source employment income, and waives the standard 4-Thai-staff-per-foreigner rule. Targeted industries are S-Curve sectors: digital, electronics, EVs, biotech, medtech, agritech, robotics. Salary floor is USD 80K personal income (or USD 40K plus PhD or 10-year senior tenure).
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What this tells you
Thailand's Long-Term Resident (LTR) visa for Highly-Skilled Professionals (HSP) launched September 2022 under BOI sponsorship. Cumulative HSP-track approvals are estimated at 9,000-10,000 through mid-2025 per BOI LTR centre disclosures, a small fraction of the wealthy-global-citizen and work-from-Thailand tracks. The HSP track offers a 10-year renewable visa, a flat 17% personal income tax rate on Thai-source employment income, and waives the standard 4-Thai-staff-per-foreigner rule. Targeted industries are S-Curve sectors: digital, electronics, EVs, biotech, medtech, agritech, robotics. Salary floor is USD 80K personal income (or USD 40K plus PhD or 10-year senior tenure).
What not to do with it
Values in thousand HSP-track approvals per period. Cumulative through mid-2025. The Wealthy Global Citizen, Wealthy Pensioner, and Work-From-Thailand tracks together added 25-30K approvals on top of HSP.
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