There's more than one person here who doesn't understand the visa system. An OA visa is not a non-imm O visa. The list of requirements pasted in the opening post refer to an OA visa. Regardless, once the visa itself has expired and the person is on extentions of stay, the type of visa is not really relevant any longer, only the reason for the extention is. A single person may start off on an OA visa. for reason of retirement. After several extentions, that person may marry hence the reason for the extention changes to marriage and health insurance is not required, despite the initial visa being an OA.

Larry Lee Gearhart Nope, it's always been that way

@John *********

agreed. But what you have is life insurance, with a medical rider. It's not the typical health insurance policyost people understand

The title of the thread is not accurate. Only OA visa's are affected by medical insurance, NOT Non Imm O for marriage.

@John *********

I believe that is a health rider on a life insurance policy, I don't believe AIA sells health insurance as most people understand it. My last policy here was with CIGNA Thailand which cost about 130k for the year. The deductible was 600k plus co-pay on the next 1 mill plus only half my body was covered due to pre-existing conditions. When Chubb took over CIGNA Thailand, Chubb declined to renew my policy, which saved me the trouble of not renewing it.

Nigel Q. Reynolds Health insurance has long been a requirement of the O-A visa.

Health insurers and their customers in Thailand, even the international names, are governed by Thai insurance rules, which are not at all similar to the international rules that many will be familiar with. Anyone considering taking out health insurance here should familiarise themselves with those rules before hand.

The same issue covered here. My TM30 hadn't been updated in 8 years, except I never noticed...Immi was OK with that because it's always the same address on every 90 day/extention. 1/?comment_id=5&reply_comment_id=3&locale=th_TH

You can go to jail if you get caught, that's the catch!

Thai Police, Teachers and other governement workers have credit unions, farangs not so!