Long Term Visa Questions
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 2:09 pm
Looking for solid advice or a good immigration lawyer.
After having visited the KOW since 2003 and getting serious from early 2014 on, I wish to relocate there next August. I will be 57 then. I don't have a Khmer partner nor fathered a Khmer citizen.
Initially, I wanted to apply for a retirement visa but have since discarded that idea and want to leave that option until I'm in my mid-60's, as once you go that route it could never be changed and any worldwide income from work would put you in violation.
There is also a possibility that the age limit may be have been raised by next year. Another point of concern is that the DOI is not following the Thai 'money in the bank and you're good to stay' option and may insist on a pension received from outside Cambodia month after month. I do have significant investments with two financial institutions in Cambodia that produce plenty of interest to live on very comfortably but I will never receive a pension from my home country or any other. I would find it very weird that they would insist on a method that brings in no tax revenue over one that does but anything is possible, as we know, and if they ever did, I'd be toast, which is a position I'd really not like to find myself in.
So, what options do I have left?
* Someone suggested being a long term volunteer. Is it really possible to get a B-class visa that way when you are not a highly specialized NGO'er?
* I could try to find a job of course during the 6 month EG visa but as my intended place of residence is Kampot, where I'm friends with a local family and where my (rented out) house is, I doubt there would be a lot of options. I really don't want to live in PP.
* I could ask my local friend & business partner to hire me but I'd hate to have to ask for such a big favor.
* I could open a business, I guess.
Thanks.
After having visited the KOW since 2003 and getting serious from early 2014 on, I wish to relocate there next August. I will be 57 then. I don't have a Khmer partner nor fathered a Khmer citizen.
Initially, I wanted to apply for a retirement visa but have since discarded that idea and want to leave that option until I'm in my mid-60's, as once you go that route it could never be changed and any worldwide income from work would put you in violation.
There is also a possibility that the age limit may be have been raised by next year. Another point of concern is that the DOI is not following the Thai 'money in the bank and you're good to stay' option and may insist on a pension received from outside Cambodia month after month. I do have significant investments with two financial institutions in Cambodia that produce plenty of interest to live on very comfortably but I will never receive a pension from my home country or any other. I would find it very weird that they would insist on a method that brings in no tax revenue over one that does but anything is possible, as we know, and if they ever did, I'd be toast, which is a position I'd really not like to find myself in.
So, what options do I have left?
* Someone suggested being a long term volunteer. Is it really possible to get a B-class visa that way when you are not a highly specialized NGO'er?
* I could try to find a job of course during the 6 month EG visa but as my intended place of residence is Kampot, where I'm friends with a local family and where my (rented out) house is, I doubt there would be a lot of options. I really don't want to live in PP.
* I could ask my local friend & business partner to hire me but I'd hate to have to ask for such a big favor.
* I could open a business, I guess.
Thanks.
