Please be assured that your help.patience and expertise is most appreciated across the group and I for one have benefitted from your time. Thankyou and may it continue.
I went apply for a Non O for my Laos wife and daughter to trail my extension of stay based on retirement. Had everything marriage certificate translations funds etc. I was told the rules have changed. Can only apply for spouse of thai or spouse on business or Ed visa not retirement. Let them in on a 60 day tourist.
Many thanks Tod for your swift response. How did I forget to mention our one year old daughter. Can you force a problem with a Non O visa for her too. We have brought her to Thailand twice already on tourist visa with no problem. Have birth certificate etc.
There may be a way round this as alluded to in a post above but just be careful with Transferwise transfers as they do not record as International transfers as friends of mine have found out.