What is the process of applying for a 90-day Non-O Visa and a one-year retirement Visa in Thailand?

Many thanks Tod.

yep, as you dependent but only until he is 20

Read too fast... My quick brain went into gear - hahaha

@J*

, he asked at the end of the SECOND year ;)

The answer is yes, you can apply for a yearly extension of stay at your immigration office off that Non-Immigrant O-A visa by meeting the financial requirements

The second year of the O-A operates a little differently - you still report every 90 days but if you leave Thailand you have to purchase a Reentry Permit at Immigration

You don't apply - just before expiry of the first year of the Non O-A you Exit and Reenter just a few days before that Expiry and you are stamped back in with 12 months yet to go before the new expiry.

At the end of the 2nd year of a 1 year retirement o-a visa, am I able to apply for a 1 year extension of the initial 1 year o-a visa?

Thank you for the clarification.

@Je**

, you don' t need a police background check to get a regulare Non-O visa and a yearly extension, nor do you need the medical certificate

I assume the amount of paperwork is about the same. Maybe a visa requires more documents. That the primary difference is having to fly to your home country for a visa versus staying in Thailand for an extension. thanks.

A year-long, multi-entry Non-Immigrant Type O-A visa (that you get in your home country before you come here) allows for unlimited entries into thailand for the validity of the visa (a year from the date of issue) with every entry getting you stamped in for a calendar year. It requires a police background check a medical certificate and meeting the financial requirements. If you exit./re-enter the country just before the visa expires you get another full year so you can get two years out of it

A Non-O visa and a yearly extension of stay allow you to stay a year, if you want to leave you buy a re-entry permit and when you return you're stamped in the remainder of the year. You apply for the yearly extension every year.