BOI Promoted Investment Visa
🇹🇭 Thailand visas · Business
What it is
For investors in BOI-promoted businesses in Thailand. BOI promotion provides a package of benefits including corporate tax exemptions, land ownership rights, and streamlined work permit and visa processes for the investor and key staff.
Key facts
- Category
- Business
- Duration
- Tied to BOI promotion period (3 to 8 years); work permit included.
- Processing time
- 4 months
- Maximum validity
- 3 months
- Extendable
- Yes
- How to apply
- Mixed
Standard figures for this route. Some applicants pay a reduced fee or none at all, so confirm your own case on the official page.
Fees
- Application fee (single entry)
- THB 2,000
- Proof of funds (per person; 40,000 THB per family)
- THB 20,000
- Application fee (multiple entry)
- THB 5,000
- Proof of funds (per family)
- THB 40,000
Key requirements
- Investment in a BOI-promoted project (minimum investment varies by category, typically THB 1 million to THB 500 million)
- Application for BOI promotion and approval
- Business plan demonstrating economic benefit to Thailand
- Thai entity (limited company) as the investment vehicle
Working on this visa
A BOI-related Non-Immigrant visa (category "IB", investment and business) does not itself authorise work: "Foreigners entering Thailand are not permitted to work, regardless of their types of visa, unless they are granted a work permit."…
Facts checked against the official source. Last updated 4 August 2026.