@Tod ********

renegade? Have always dealt with Samui Immigration before for extensions, so a little concerned as Koh Phangan Immigration is relatively new & I'm not sure how many retirement/dependency extensions they've dealt with.

@Tod ********

didn't book online. Booked at the Immigration Office when doing my 90 day checkin.

@Tod ********

Koh Phangan I. O. Yes, I had already decided to go fully armed with husband & his paperwork & will cross all my fingers. Thanks.

@Tod ********

I bow to your superior knowledge. It's what I was told to do by a member of staff at Samui Immigration & have therefore done since using the 90 day reporting online app. Apologies.

I may be missing something here, but I've always been under the assumption that after every yearly visa extension, your first 90 day check in has to be done at your Immigration office. That seems to reset the online 90 day app. It's always worked for me. Same thing with a new passport.

Update: I inquired at the Immigration Office, Koh Phangan, today re: Non O retirement extensions. I was told by a very helpful member of immigration staff there that because they are newly opened they are not providing extensions of this kind AT THE MOMENT. The chief Immigration Officer there plans to provide them soon, maybe within the next 2 or 3 months. So, no holding our breath, let's wait & hope.

Yes, if it's possible. As long as one of us is a trailing spouse it would save us both having to have 800k in 2 separate Thai bank accounts. This is what we are trying to avoid having to do.

@John *********

that was what I had in mind originally or as I mentioned earlier, when/if my husband gets his own retirement visa in April, could I not become a trailing spouse when my extension expires in June?

@Tod ********

ahh, ok. I now wonder if my husband only has the choice of getting his own retirement extension on 21 April, when my retirement extension ends on 16 June, could I then become a 'trailing spouse' on his retirement extension?

@Tod ********

thanks for great advice. I was thinking of the covid extension, but wasn't sure if it was acceptable. The reason he didn't apply for a new passport that early was that we could never remember having this problem when our previous passports expired. If I remember correctly, we would present our new passports at our next visit to Immigration & old stamps/visas would be transferred to new passports & that was it, job done. On a good note, we did put the 800k required into his bank account in good time, just in case things went awry.