Manhattan on soi 15.

@Ron *******

We do the OA basically because don't want to drop the money in a bank in Thailand, we'll buy insurance anyhows, and isn't hard to get. so, fits our needs as we'll not move there full time. On our 3rd one now

Our last OA visa we applied for, Thai immigration kept telling me my iinsurance information was not listed by the insurance company on some web site. The insurance company kept telling me there was no site to list the info. After much going back and forth between the insurance company and Thai immigration, the condition was dropped, and the linked web site disappeared. Was very frustrating.

@Brook *******

Same as the OP - didn't want to park much money in a bank in Thailand. Add in we travel a bit back and forth between Florida, Vietnam, and Thailand, seemed the correct decision - for us. Now, if I could get a visa exemption for Thailand, like Vietnam, that would be the trick - come and go for 5 yrs, for $75....

We're in FL, and on our 3rd OA visa. FL criminal background check is easy, done by mail, and about $35. We get our insurance through AXA, costs about $1500/year for us both. Think the visa fee is $200. My Dr. in NC was east to get the medical cert from, FL doctor wants me to get a tuberculosis test, and says she won't do another exam. After the visa 1st year, you need to get a re-entry stamp.

We 'were' on total wireless through walmart, had it for years. Recently, changed, and it's Verizon 'something' - I forget. But the total wireless plan was $25/month, ours is still same price. have wifi calling, makes it nice while in Thailand.

My wife is Vietnamese, Vietnamese passport. She is a US resident, with a green card. Her passport has her Vietnamese family name, green card her married name. We have OA visas, all info submitted for visas was her married family name. We had no problems with that for visas. Now airline's Canberra a different story

On Nut area is nice. Soi 81 has some less expensive places. KV Mansion does monthly rates

@Sherry ******

*It's FB, that's why. Can't help you with visa situation, sorry. We've been getting OA visas for the last 6 yrs. but ours expires next month, and we'll not get another OA.

My wife has a Vietnamese passport, and a US Greencard. She's been in the US since 2006. Starting in 2016, we started staying in Thailand or Vietnam for extended periods, mostly right at 6 months, but once almost 11 months. Didn't travel 2020 until 2022 because of covid. Spent about 9 months/year, in 2 trips each year in Thailand. Last entry to US, in Minneapolis, we were told by immigration officer she had been out of country mostly for the last 2 years, and they could revoke her green card. This would have to be documented and us warned. So they did. Both officers were very rude. We have all things suggested that one needs to prove you have no intention of living out of the country - but neither officer was interested in seeing or listening to that. I pointed out that one reason we were out for extended periods was medical treatment, and the difference in cost, that I have records, and have brought meds back with me. He was only interested that I didn't bring 'over the legal' limit back. Was a disgusting experience - especially when you consider what is happening at the US southern border. Our first entry at that airport, and only one plane arriving, they had pulled at least a dozen people in for further "investigation". Oddly enough, leaving the country from Detroit, there were customs agents in the jetway questioning and searching people to see if they were carrying excess cash out of the country. They seemed to be only questioning Asians, or mixed Asian couples. They were about as rude too. Those were the 1st times such had happened in over 20 years of travel.