What are the best options for my wife to obtain a visa while I have a non O retirement visa?

Get DTV

My wife is under 50. She follows my Retirement Visa/extension every year and I don't use an agent anymore. Plenty of paper work though.

We assure you it can be done ✔️

The nuance of this is, I suspect, maybe they don’t know how, (respectfully)? 🙏

That being said, there may also very well be (often are) other options you potentially haven’t yet considered.

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Good luck 🤞🏻

the Non O/A visa for you is out of consideration, as by the time you need to go from the visa to the 1-year extension, you will be 76 years old and there is not one single mandatory for you tgia-listed Thai private health insurance that would be willing to insure you. Take the Non-Imm-O route for yourself and the DTV route for your wife, which she can get when applying outside of Thailand, on a 6-months cooking course and with a minimum of 500,000 THB equivalent in her bank account. Some Thai embassies require the money must have been sitting in her account for a minimum of 3 months. You should ask the relevant Thai consulate or embassy how they handle it. And you definitely don't need any agents or the bypassing of any rules. You can do that the fully legal way

It’s not easy, but most definitely can be done in Thailand, specifically Jomtien/Pattaya but will cost you around ,000 baht for the convenience of not leaving. Anyone saying it’s not possible doesn’t understand how to do it. Send DM and I’ll happily send details to you.

DTV visa is not a lot of profit for agencies to take advantage of…. That’s my guess why nobody has recommended it… non o and non oa have requirements more frequently and need hand holding (I.e.- ability to charge fees to those that need assistance)…. Season the money … get a class and apply for the DTV…

Once you get it… always make sure when you return, you have a class scheduled and the money in the bank. Best of luck

I agree. Get a DTV. Don't listen to those agents.

Your wife can't get a Non-O dependant visa in Thailand, and not anywhere nearby, possibly anywhere at all based on you being on a Non-O visa. It might be possible if you got a Non-OA visa but not guaranteed, that would be up to the consulate you got the Non-OA visa issued by. An alternative might be to have your wife sign up to study with a school in Thailand and get a 90 day ED visa which she would need to extend for a further 90 days and when that extension is coming to an end rather than getting another extension based on studying change the reason to one of being your dependant. She would actually have to attend school and study for the 6 months though

There's no reason why your wife can't get a DTV. It's the best solution, lasts 5 years and only requires a border bounce every 6 months. Your agents are money grabbing yearly renewal greedy morons for telling you a DTV isn't an option.

OA requires insurance and as you say expensive. Why can your wife not get DTV for say cookery school. Speak to a school direct and not to agents. Good luck.