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What options does my wife have to stay in Thailand after her medical visa expires?
My wife was a teacher here in the past, but had to leave her job due to a health issue a few months ago. She has been on a medical visa for these few months, but, her health all mended, her visa expires 1 April.
She has been here on her US passport, but she also has a Brazilian passport.
I am retired here on a non-O.
My question is this: what are her alternatives for staying here until she can land in a new teaching position? When we first arrived here many years ago she was my trailing spouse, then later a student, then later on a work visa. Alternatives I see are leaving and then returning as a tourist, or bringing her back under my visa.
Any ideas that I'm missing? Thanks in advance!
She has been here on her US passport, but she also has a Brazilian passport.
I am retired here on a non-O.
My question is this: what are her alternatives for staying here until she can land in a new teaching position? When we first arrived here many years ago she was my trailing spouse, then later a student, then later on a work visa. Alternatives I see are leaving and then returning as a tourist, or bringing her back under my visa.
Any ideas that I'm missing? Thanks in advance!
Answer summary
The user inquired about their wife's visa options after her medical visa expires. Suggestions included transitioning from her current extension of stay to a trailing spouse extension based on her husband's retirement visa or exiting and re-entering Thailand as a tourist to extend her stay. The conversation emphasizes the importance of checking the specifics of her current visa status and the possibility of 'piggy backing' onto the user's retirement visa.
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There is no "medical VISA" available inside the country so I will go under the premise that she's on an "extension of stay" based on medical necessity <- which is not a visa.. Check the stamp in her passport and see if it says "extension of stay permitted until" and has a permitted until date
IF she is indeed on an extension there might be a chance she can go straight from that extension to a "piggy back" trailing spouse extension based on being your spouse and you being on the retirement visa/extension for 1900baht at the immigration office before this current stamp runs out
You'd both have to go to the immigration office where you live and see if it can be done and what documentation you'd have to present to pull it off.
Failing that just bounce her out and back (pick a passport either US and get her a 60 day stamp OR Brazil and get her a 90 day entry stamp) and use that as a "bridge" until she finds a new job
IF she is indeed on an extension there might be a chance she can go straight from that extension to a "piggy back" trailing spouse extension based on being your spouse and you being on the retirement visa/extension for 1900baht at the immigration office before this current stamp runs out
You'd both have to go to the immigration office where you live and see if it can be done and what documentation you'd have to present to pull it off.
Failing that just bounce her out and back (pick a passport either US and get her a 60 day stamp OR Brazil and get her a 90 day entry stamp) and use that as a "bridge" until she finds a new job
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