Can My Wife and I Get Extensions of Stay Based on Our Son's Ed Visa Extension in Thailand?

@Henry ********

, we had report of that someone could get Non-O dependent (spouse) on a foreigner who is legally staying Thailand on an extension based on being over 50 from Penang. I think it's worth to call the Thai embassy/consulate in Laos if they issue those visa even not on the website, especially your wife is Lao national.

If they do, both of your wife and child can be dependent on your retirement extension. If not, as Tod says above, get Non-ED and Non-O guardian with 500K in a Thai bank.

Your best bet is to get the child and ED visa, get the mother the guardian visa (taking care of a foreign child legally enrolled in a school on an ED visa) by banking the 500K baht in a thai bank account in her name only for the requisite time. and you should get the retirement,.

After you have the mother get the 90 day Non-O based on caring for a foreign child here and get the year extension

Then the following year, when her extension comes due you COULD have her 'change the reason' for the extension to "trailing spouse" (as she'd already have had a Non-O visa and extension and would only be changing the reason for the next extension

@Henry ********

neither person will be able to get a Non-O visa issued inside the country based on being the spouse or child of a person on a "retirement visa/extension"