Hi just putting this out there. I am hoping to spend about 6 months a year in Thailand. I am 59 years old and rapidly approaching retirement. My common law wife is a dual citizen of both Canada and Thailand. We currently live in Canada but would like to escape the Canadian winters on a yearly basis. My c.l. wife has property and family in Thailand. Comments appreciated.

Like you have stated, people have different reasons for staying in Thailand . My husband worked here and we have now retired here so my daughter grew up here since she was 7. But now she is too old for a dependency visa the only way to stay is with tourist visas. She has an MET at the moment and was supposed to do a border bounce on 29th March but borders closed so went to immigration and they gave her 30 days which lasts till 29th April . Her MET expired April 11. She has the embassy letter which I didn’t need to use last time . I was thinking she should go to immigration next week to extend 30 days with letter rather than wait to see about amnesty . Would that work ? Please don’t tell her to get out of the country and go home because this is her home and to go back to Uk she would have to live with 89year old grandad which is a risk .So it’s safer to stay here with parents I think .

Any knowledge on the MET visa? Does it exist for Aussies? What exactly does it allow you to do? what do I need, how and where do I apply? TIA