What are the experiences of expats over 50 bringing their under 50 wives to Thailand on a dependent visa after obtaining a non-O retirement visa?

Yikes, I am so confused. I think I am in the same situation.

I was told at Jomtien immigration to go out of the country and apply for the 90-day visa based on marriage and then to extend it once I was back in Thailand. I showed them my husband's passport/retirement visa and they confirmed the process. I even asked if it was better to do the guardian visa option (I have 2 kids in school), and the immigration officer told me the spouse/dependent visa was the best choice.

So here I am, in Cambodia, waiting for the e-visa to be approved. I hope this wasn't a waste of time.

I managed to get a dependent Visa based on Husband have his O extension in April 2023. But later that year, overseas embassies stopped issuing the 90 day O visa (which is necessary to get first in order to covert to a dependent visa).

Getting an OA retirement visa seems to be the only way to get a dependent spouse visa now.

Good luck. Once I got mine, it's been easy to extend though.

We had it! We needed an original marriage certificate that was stamped and signed by the city who issued this document, Dutch ministry of foreign affairs and Thai Ministry based in the Netherlands. (They all needed to verify each other stamps 🙃)With this document and my husband’s paperwork I got the visa without need for the double income.

Did it and successful extension 7 years in a row including daughter.

Unless I am greatly mistaken there are zero successful reports of foreigners on Non-O's based on retirement getting their foreign spouses a 'trailing spouse' Non-O either inside the country OR at any thai consulate in the last year or more 😮

They stopped issuing 90 day Non-O visas for that reason (spouse of a foreigner on a Non-O visa/extension based on retirement) a good while back.