Can I apply for another 12-month Non-OA retirement visa in Thailand after my initial visa expires?

I have been told that we cannot use tricare to meet the OA visa requirement. So I opted for an O visa. I can still use Tricare. A few hospitals accept it but generally you pay out of pocket and submit for reimbursement.

We are seriously contemplating retiring in Thailand. I have a question as far as insurance. Do you know if a US veteran can use foreign Tricare as an insurance requirement?

The OA and O visas can be extended 1 year at a time when the visa expires. You can get 1-2 years from an OA and 90 days from an O visa. What you get with an OA is that you can qualify with money in your home country bank and you get a one year visa. After the 1-2 years on the OA you can extend 1 year at a time. The OA requires insurance which may or may not be a good thing depending on your insurance circumstances. The O is only 90 days but it doesn’t matter much because what you are really trying to do is get to 1 year extensions. The benefit of an O is that it doesn’t require insurance (you can do that on your own separate from the Visa). For both the OA and O visa, for the 1 year extensions you must meet the financial requirements using money in a Thai bank. For the extensions you will need a Thai bank account which appears to be somewhat difficult these days.

You can do all this yourself or hire an agent. I always did it myself. There are pros & cons to either method.

OA Is only available from your home country embassy but with correct timing you can get nearly two years out of it.

I know someone who has been doing this for a lot of years.

You do need insurance from one of the goverment approved vendors though

I could be wrong and if I am, I am sure someone will correct me, but similar to the Non-O, with the Non-OA you can apply for a 1 year extension. However this will require either 800k in a Thai bank account 2 months prior to applying or 65k+ in monthly transfers for 1 year.

Yes, at the end of your 12 month visa you to to an Immigration Office inside Thailand and apply for an extension of stay based on being over 50 years. as lomg as you meet the stated requirements (different at each office). 1,900 thb.

On a Non O-A visa you’ll get stamped in for a year upon each entry, so if you get stamped in one last time just before it expires you’ll get two years stay on a Non O-A. You’ll need to renew your health insurance, unless you’ll just get stamped in for the validity of your insurance on your second year.

For the first year you have multiple entries, on the second year you’ll need to buy re-entry permits if you leave to get stamped back in again.

You can generally get 2 years out of a non-oa visa by leaving and returning just before the expiry date. Every entry gets you stamped in for a year as long as you have valid insurance cover for that year