What are the health insurance criteria for a NON IMMI OA retirement visa in Thailand?

@Gianni *****

your local Thai embassy will have it.

Here’s a link but as with all things Thai check with the embassy you will be filing with or the Thai immigration office you use because things can change on a dime

@Gianni *****

exactly, you need to have health insurance, but there is a detail you are missing. The validity of being in Thailand is only stamped for how long your insurance is valid for. When you got your stamp until Feb. 2025 your insurance had to be good until then, or they never would have stamped that expiry date in your passport. You extended the visa inside Thailand, and why you need the re-entry permit, but, you should already have your health insurance, or they wouldn't have stamped you in until February.

@Gianni *****

Ah ok. You are not on a visa at all. You initially entered using a Non OA visa and have since got yearly extensions. To acquire those extensions you do indeed need “complementing” insurance because your entry initially was a Non OA.

However the re-entry permit that you have has no requirement for insurance. You have got a stamp that says you are allowed to stay until xxx date. When you leave and return with a valid re-entry permit you will be stamped in until xxx date, you do not need to show insurance for that. It’s only at the time of your next extension that you need to show insurance.

To get off the “gravy train” of needing insurance you’d need to exit without a re-entry permit thus nullifying your current extension status and re-enter on a Non O visa or a tourist visa or exempt entry and apply for the Non O in country.