If I have dtv, does my wife need to +/_ £11k in her account ?

My wife and I are presently on a 1 year ED Visa in Thailand. I'm 56 and my wife 51 years old, both Canadian. At the end of the ED Visa, I'm planning to switch to a Non-O Retirement Visa within Thailand. Can my wife be a "trailing spouse" on my Retirement Visa or does she need to get her own Retirement Visa? Can she use the same 800 000 baht that I already have in a Thai bank account to get her own Retirement Visa? We got married in Thailand, not Canada and have all paperwork in order.

My wife is on an Australian-issued Multi Non-O visa, valid for 90 days in Thailand. If she leaves toward the end of that first 90-day period and returns, will she be stamped in for another 90 days, thus keeping that original sticker alive? Can we repeat that process each quarter (flying out each time)?

The reason for asking is that because she is under 50 and I'm over (on an Australia Non-OA), we went through the process of linking her as a trailing spouse last time around. We maxed those original OA and O visas for the allowed two years. We have recently returned with new OA and Non-O's, and we have travel booked every quarter, which, if my theory is correct, then we wouldn't need to go through the spousal linking process. Thanks in advance.

hello! is there anything else i need to do besides a re-entry permit when leaving the country for just a couple weeks?

is the bkk re-enty permit service still open 24/7?

i'm on a non-o extension as a trailing spouse

thank you!

Hey all!

I’m on a non-O (trailing spouse of a teacher)

And flying out of the country

Anything I need besides a re-entry permit to return smoothly?

The re entry booth at BKK is still 24/7, right?

Thanks!

My husband and I are UK citizens. Ideally we would like to apply for a 90 day Non-Immigration O Visa before leaving the UK. Upon arrival in Thailand I will deposit 800,000THB into my account and get the extension. Subsequently my husband will tag on as my trailing spouse. Has anyone gone down this route?

Hello,

My fiance and I are US citizens and we both have Non-O retirement visa with the 1 year extension

We plan to be married before we have to renew our current visas and will apply for marriage visa

I understand that my husband will be the main person on the visa and I will be trailing spouse

I know that I must maintain at least 400,000 baht in my thai bank account (have already passed the initial 90 day period)for the entire time prior to applying for the marriage visa but do I have to bring my account back up to the 800,000 baht 2 months prior?

Thanks very much

Hello,

This is an update to my post last week regarding my trailing spouse wife being issued the wrong Non O visa (retirement vs. work) in Shanghai.

Background & advice: [[members only])

First, thanks to all for the inputs. Here is the follow-up, which is great news!

We sent another strongly worded email last week to the Thai consulate in Shanghai to every email address we had for them (3 different ones – same time).

However, we also had our secret weapon, my 73 year old Shanghainese mother-in-law (MIL). We sent her to the Shanghai consulate early Monday morning. My wife tried to explain the entire situation to her mother about being issued the wrong type of Non O visa as a dependent/trailing spouse who is age 47 for retirement, not work related. We are pretty positive her mother didn’t really understand it, but we sent her anyway.

So, she goes to the consulate with her boyfriend. As they are early, they wait and boyfriend offers security guard a cigarette (helpful for next part). MIL marches up to the window as it opens and tries to explain the situation. Window person says we can’t help. MIL is also now continuously facetiming/wechatting with my wife at this point. They consult. My MIL returns and is a bit more strident. Rejected and turned away. More consulting. Third time return and even louder and energetic. She now has a small audience of other people waiting for help. Rejected more forcefully, but security guard doesn’t want to get involved (especially as older person)

More consulting and returned for the 4th time. This time my MIL is successful to get a Thai person in charge to hear her story. The Thai official takes our information and promises to call my wife about it within 3-5 days and my MIL leaves satisfied.

So, next day, around 2:15 pm Thai time, my wife receives this updated visa via email (see picture). It has been revised. We go to Phuket Immigration on Wed to double check that there will be no problems when she tries to extend and we are told that this is fine.

So, happy spouse, happy house. Just wait for extension application Sep. 25, and if that goes through, we made it this far!

Good morning group. I would just like to see if the group can confirm my understanding on something after my own research. I believe that I can bring my Laos wife who is under the age of 50 to Thailand on a Non O visa to then follow my Extension of stay based on retirement. I will present my financials and our marriage certificate. Is this correct or am I missing something. Many thanks in advance.

Frankfurt: Non-Immigrant O as spouse of 50+ year old / Trailing spouse in neighboring countries

Hi, a German couple would like to move to Thailand. He is 53. She is 47. They plan to get the Non-Immigrant O. Upon asking at the consulate in Frankfurt (Germany) they were informed, that he can apply for the Non-Immigrant O but she could only get a tourist visa.

Has anyone made the same experience or seen similar reports? I wonder if it was just miscommunication of either side and if they should risk the eVisa application (he applies first and then she applies with his visa approval letter).

If Frankfurt really doesn't issue it to a trailing spouse, the only other way would be, to come to Thailand, get him on the EoS and then have her apply in a neighboring country. However, currently this seems tricky as well. Haven't really seen any recent success stories.

Thank you in advance for your support.