@George ************

that’s great advice and much appreciated. I’ll check-in with PIV group.

Ah, okay. I'll take a look. When I checked with the embassy, they didn't mention that but they're quite good at giving conflicting advice :)

@Kool ******

thank for that, I would seem that the Embassy in Sydney will let me do the OX 5year visa provided I can show $150k AUD on an Aussie bank statement, so no actual requirements to invest it? Which seems to good to be true, so lets see what happens there. If I do get that OX one then hopefully its straight forward to do the dependent extension once we hit Phuket? Next, is the decision on what visa type she leaves Australia on? Visa on Arrival, TR or STV?

@George ************

many thx George it sounds to me like the dependent option would be our likely way forward. In Australia I can get a five year OX visa without having to transfer 3m thb to my Thai account. According to the embassy I just have to show evidence of $150K AUD at the time of application (I know it seems to easy but that’s what they are saying). The only requirement is a decent level of health insurance, which I would do anyway.

In relation to my wife, the embassy in Sydney isn’t offering anything apart from Visa on Arrival, TR STV, which do you think would be the easiest one to convert to dependent extension once we land? Many thanks again

@Paul ****************

that

Wasn’t the question. I don’t think anyone asked for an opinion, you don’t know peoples circumstances.

I’ve also been using XE currency, bit slower than Wise but there rates have been better recently

Eerrr and again ?

@Ronald ********

isn’t that the point 🙄

@George ************

legend, thx for that. I’ll take a look

@David ********

not anytime soon I’m afraid. No dates have even been discussed. We have only just started the injection rollout 🙄