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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the Income Affidavits associated with Thai Retirement Visas. I thought of making this video after reading a recent comment on one of our prior videos, quote: "Technically the Income Affidavit didn't end at least not from the perspective of Thai Immigration. It did end from the perspective of some foreign Embassies:  USA, UK, Australia most notably, but as a Canadian, Thailand still accepts Income Affidavits from the Canadian Consulate as well as to my understanding many other European countries." 

Yeah I do need to sort of stand corrected on this. I was talking in another video when I sort of said off-hand that I predicted the end of the Income Affidavit. People sort of scoffed at me and it came and went. Again, that's a very sort of Anglospheric centric way of looking at that issue. Yeah I primarily deal with folks that are coming off of the USA, as well as Australia and the UK, basically native English speakers and yeah the Income Affidavit effectively did come to an end for them. That's due to the way that notarized documents are created and generated through the Embassies and Consulates of those different countries. 

But yes, there are other jurisdictions that will attest to the veracity of documentation pertaining to income, pension income etc. associated with the Retirement Visa. As noted, Canada may operate positively with respect to that depending on your fact situation, as well as Europe. Europe, depending on what country you're from in Europe, you may be able to utilize an Income Affidavit in order to maintain a Retirement Visa as well. Again, it is going to be fact specific, it is also going to be dependent on your nationality but I needed to go ahead and do this correction so the people understood, no the Income Affidavit is not fully dead but it is effectively rendered moot for many folks who are English speakers here in the Kingdom of Thailand.