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

EVERYONE sees immigration when arriving at the airport. Obviously

No. You won't have any problems.

The window for making a 90 day report is the same as it has always been. 14 days before until 7 days after the due date.

SOME immigration offices (Bangkok for example) have a shorter window only for online reporting. That window is 14 days before your due date until 7 days before your due date.

If you apply online 6 days before your due date you'll receive a rejection stating this. And it's posted at the immigration office. You can still go into the office to report 14 days before until 7 days after.

@Kirk *********

almost no one uses the OA visa.

But the OX isn't often mentioned because Australia is the only place you can get it without having 3 million baht in a Thai bank account.

@Paul *******

all visas are done online now. It doesn't matter if the embassy is closed or not

@Paul *******

That's up to you. But you'll be paying a premium for something that should take you a few hours to do on your own.

You can, but why? What's the rush?

You would get the retirement visa from the Thai embassy in Australia before going to Thailand.

Once you get to Thailand you will receive a 90-day entry stamp.

This gives you about 4 weeks to open a bank account and transfer 800,000 baht. The sooner you can do that the better (Maybe you already have a bank account though?)

As soon as your 800,000 in your bank account hits 2 months, and you have 30 or less days on your entry stamp, you can apply for the 1-year extension.

Once you have your 1-year extension, purchase a re-entry permit and you can leave Thailand until your next extension is due if you want.

The only "2 year" thing I know of is that it takes about 2 years to get a marriage visa. That's 2 years from the time you apply, until you finally get the visa. It's not something magical that happens at 2 years.

You can try applying for a tourist visa, but the embassy almost never grants those to married Thais because they think you are just trying to do an end-run around the 2-year marriage visa process. They think she will get to the US as a tourist and then you will apply for adjustment of status to get a green card for her.

You just use both passports until your DTV expires. They cannot put anything in your old passport as it's expired, but they need to see the passport number matches your visa.

You can go to immigration and see if they'll put a notation in your new passport that references your old passport number, so you don't have to carry both passports. Some immigration offices will do it while others will not.

@Gábor *********

that's the correct way to use a non-OA. Never have to deal with immigration or worry about money in Thailand.