What visa options are available for an unmarried Australian couple relocating to Phuket, Thailand?

Partner may not mean wife??

No Married Separation Quarantäne to. Get married and no Problems with Visa for Wife.

Because you are old enough for OA or O Visa, and you are married, you only need 800.000 in the bank for the both of you and you can put your wife on the same visa as a dependant.

I have a visa lawyer I can recommend if needed.

We had to provide a copy of our marriage certificate on order to stay in the same room in an ASQ.

she can get a dependent retirement visa on yours this is what my wife got when we moved here from aussie similar ages to you when we applied she can switch to independent retirement visa once passes 50

If you did get married, your wife could get a dependent visa. If not, Elite would be an option but it's expensive. Volunteering is also an option, many people do this and actually volunteer, they are not all pretending.

Now on the other hand IF you WERE married you should get the year-long, multi-entry Non-Immigrant Type O-A (Long Stay) visa from the thai consulate in your country before you come here and your wife would get a 90 day Non-O visa based on marriage to someone who has a long stay visa.

You'd get stamped in for a year (or as long as your insurance is good for up to a year) and your wife would get stamped in for 90 days. When her 90 day stamp was running down you'd go to the immigration office and she'd apply for an extension stamp that matches yours based on marriage to you.

Oops, I read right over the "we aren't married" part of your post, so the following wouldn't work. However, it does cover you getting a retirement extension so I'll leave it as written.

The problem is getting an extension for your partner since she is not over 50 which is a requirement for a retirement extension and she would only qualify for a dependent (follow) extension if she were your wife.

My recommendation would be the following:

You and your partner should each get a tourist visa in Australia. As soon as you're out of quarantine in Thailand go to Phuket Immigration and apply for a Non-O Visa in Thailand for yourself by following these instructions:



As soon as possible open a Thai bank account (Bangkok Bank is recommended) unless you already have one.

At your earliest opportunity (Phuket allows you to do this 45 days early) apply for an extension of stay for purpose of Retirement (sometimes called a retirement extension for short) by following these instructions:



As soon as this retirement extension is granted to you (it will give you one-year permission to stay), your partner can apply for a dependent (follow) extension by following these instructions:

For you a non imm O based on being over 50 years and your partner can go for a STV which should give a maximum of 270 days (what I read). A volunteer visa can be an option. At present I would not set my heart on being able to whiz in and out of Thailand to visit other countries.

First of all, this website maintained by the Phuket Immigration Volunteers is an invaluable resource:



How to navigate the site might be non-obvious. The icon with the three horizontal bars on the left-hand side of the page allows you to go to a different part of the website.

Actually, I want to visit Australia for scuba diving near Cairns, and maybe stay a few days in Coogee Beach .... When are the Aussies opening up their country for tourists?