Request for advice: My wife (50+) and I (49, just turned) are US citizens and want to come to Thailand (Hua Hin) and stay for extended medical treatment and retirement after. I am confused about the best visa choice out of our consulate (Los Angeles, USA) and asking for advice and suggestions.

The Non-Immigrant Type “O” Medical Treatment visa for me with her a dependent seems like it would work well, but then I had another idea…

Instead of dealing with medical appointment letters, can my wife apply for a Non-O Retirement visa and have me as a dependent? One extension gets me to 50, opening up other possibilities (extend again, do two Non-O Retirement visas, other visa options like LTR, etc).

We have no issue with her showing an 800k baht bank balance here, and will transfer that to a Thai bank and then follow up with 65k baht into it each month to eliminate having to maintain a balance later.

My questions:

Is this a good plan, or would you recommend a different route?

The dependent visa is technically the “Non-Immigrant Visa Type O, To stay with non-Thai family residing in Thailand (more than 60 days)”, right?

Do we apply for the dependent visa right after the retirement visa, or do we have to wait for the retirement visa to be approved then apply for the dependent one?

Thanks to this entire group, learned a lot searching and reading here and really appreciate the help!

Hi everyone, I just realized I made a HUGE mistake and hope someone has some advice for me. I am a US citizen. I just spent 30 days in Indonesia and 28 days in Malaysia. I leave Malaysia in 2 days heading to Singapore for 3 days. My plan was to spend 60 days in Thailand on a tourist visa and 2-3 weeks in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. It just occurred to me I forgot to apply for the Thai Visa and I won’t be in Malaysia or Singapore long enough to get it. I haven’t checked yet, but does anyone know if it’s easier to get a tourist visa in Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia and apply for the Thai visa there? Another option is to stay longer in Singapore until I get it, but hotels are very expensive there and I don’t know how difficult their Thai visa process is. I can’t believe I did this! I appreciate your thoughts.

UPDATE: I have what I need so I’m turning off comments. Thanks again for being so kind and gracious with your advice, even though I made a silly mistake in misinterpreting the Thai Visa information. I also appreciate those of you who went beyond and reminded me of the other country requirements I will be visiting too. You guys are a real treasure. Best to you all.

I am on a multi entry 60 visa, I am from the Untied States. I did the initial 30 extension, that cost 5,500 baht using a service. Been here 90 days on the September 1st, so I need to leave the country and come back to start the next 60 days. They said it cost another 5,500 baht for the van to Cambodia and back. Is this the normal rate- I’m in Pattaya, this is my first time here.

Hi Lovely Folx,

Q about land border crossings- I did one Mukdahan/Savannakhet (RT) land border crossing and the other was Vientiane/Nongkhai (I flew into VTE). Am I allotted only 2 per calendar year? The immigration officer didn’t mention anything when I was stamped into Nong Khai & didn’t take a look over. FWIW, I’m on an American passport.

I plan on going to Malaysia via Pedang Besar fr Hat Yai, Will they stamp me back in or should I just plan on flying into Thailand via KL?

Many thanks💐💐💐

Hello everyone, good advice is very welcome. TR60 Visa since October 2021 with 5 Covid extension.

I would like to extend my stay to travel a little further around Thailand with my Thai GF. We are planning a short trip to Vietnam at the end of the month, would spend a day or two there and then fly back via DMK. I’m gambling with a 45 days stamp.

Is the whole project a promising campaign? I haven't done any other visas or border runs yet.

Side notice: I’m still having my return flight as a backup, but this one starts from BKK… I guess there is also risk involved to get denied entry at all?

Or is it also worth the extra effort to apply for a new TR visa in Vietnam?

Many thanks 🙏

My covid extension will expire on 3/9/2022 but I have fight back to country on 13/9/2022 .What should i do ? Anyone can recommed?

I’m currently here on a non Immigrant OA extension of stay. US passport.

I need to mail my passport to BKK as I’m running out of pages in order to get a new one. Does anyone know if I need to do anything special to make sure my extension stamp stays in the passport. *or any other advice before I send it off. Thanks!

Hello and thanks for the add.

My wife and I are traveling to Thailand in June and are hoping to stay for 3 months. The tourist visa I've looked up covers us for 60 days and then we can apply for an extension for 30.

With what we have planned for the next part of our trip after leaving Thailand, we would need to spend 95 days in the country.

Just wondering what our options are and looking for any advice!

Thank you.

Hi everyone,

I want to enter Thailand overland (with a German passport) for the third time within four months after I stayed in laos now for about three weeks.

I'm just a traveller who wants to catch its flight form bkk in two weeks.

Will the immigration give me a 30 day free visa on arrival again ? Any recommendations where I should / should not cross border in laos ?

Thanks in advance.

Hey, guys I have a question for a friend. He had to overstay for around 2 months. (private reasons) and he wants to leave now. Is there any way to pay less than the total amount of 500 per day? I heard there are specific limits? And does he just needs to go to the airport and wait until they ask him? Or could he get in trouble then that they would direclty take him to jail or whatever. Thanks for your help.