When you apply for the Non Imm. O-A Visa Multi-Entry (age 50 or over) in your home country... Your wife can apply for a single entry non immigrant O Visa 90 Days. Upon entering Thailand at the last 30 days of her 90 days - you and your wife can go to the Thai immigration office near where you are residing and she can apply for a One Year Extension of Stay for a fee of 1900 baht, Application TM.7 Form and other documents. Upon that One Year Extension being granted - you and your wife will then just have to report to the local Immigration office every 90 days.

In one way or another the Thai Govt. has annouced it...

You're playing a dice game with a country that has been advancing a systematic program for 3 years straight to limit and deny back to back stays using Exemption Entries and Tourist Visas to basically live in Thailand. Are you not aware Thailand does not want you to stay in Thailand using the methods you are trying to use? ... At a pace of about every 3 to 6 months the limits are purposely tightened. My prediction ...In about about another 9 months to one year - under age 50 people staying in Thailand for more than 60 days a year on SETV and Exemption Entries will come to halt. My Opinion... based on close observation over about a continuous 5 years.

Going to Vientiane - after getting an income letter from your Embassy is the best route to get the 90 Single Entry Non Imm O Visa. Getting the One Year Extension of Stay based on that Non O Visa is easy enough. Done once - it all gets easier each year.

I don't find that point being made - maybe buried in a reply - not in your post

Come and go with no hassle

@Lance ********

- it doesn't have to be a permanent relocation to Thailand... don't have to be retired..

Over Age 50 get a long stay visa with reentry permits and quit fooling around with Exempt Entries... get smooth sailing each in and out

@David *********

- yes - talking with Robert that has been clarified.. But having been at the 'Oz Visa for several years - the no seasoning except for 30 days to apply for the 90 day Non O... had not always been that way.. And in the Thai way varied from one Imm. Office to another. In the same way as at one time a person could not get a Non O 90 day over 50 in many Imm. Offices

@Robert ******

- Yes we are all aware of that - But this gentleman focused on Savannakhet - so I informed him of other Consulates. It is not easy to get every option into one or even two comments. It depends on where one might live - Savanakhet it a good option from Nakon Phanom, Sakon Nakhon, Ubon Rachathani, Mukdahan, etc.