If he is living in Belgium, with the residence card, then he can apply online for a visa.

Gillian Dodd A re-entry permit is easy to get at any Immigration Office, or even at the airport when you leave if you’re not going to be near an Office.

Again, you’ll need to get the timing right as regards when you want to get an Extension.

At what stage in your trip do you want to go to Brisbane?

If you time it so that you return to Thailand with 30 days or fewer left on your total trip then you can get a Tourist Visa for your first entry and then just enter Visa Exempt on your return from Brisbane. Eg 50 days in Thailand, 10 days in Brisbane, 29 days in Thailand.

You could even do that earlier (as the Visa Exempt can be extended) but might have an issue with the airline at BNE.

@Chris ********

you couldn’t do that for the first extension, you’d need the 800k, but you could that in future years

Simplest way is probably to get a Non O visa ‘for Retirement’ from the Thai embassy in London and then get annual Extensions of Stay from the Immigration office in Thailand.

You’ll need 800k baht in a Thai bank account for the Extension.

You’d have to get legally married first.

You can get a Non O ‘for Retirement’ from London fairly easily - all online now. You’ll need to be getting a pension or have £10k in your home bank account for 3 months. You will need insurance but travel insurance will do as long as it meets the minimum requirements. It only has to cover you for 3 months as the visa gives you that long on entry.

You will need 800k baht in a Thai bank account to get your annual extension of stay in Thailand at the end of the 3 months. You won’t need insurance for this. Some offices insist on that being there for 2 months beforehand but others don’t.

@Gábor *********

Nope. You misunderstood or spoke to wrong agents.

I paid 8000 for the Extension as I had money in bank. It would have been without. That’s pretty standard.

It depends on a few things.

Will you arrive with a Non O from your home country or just with a Tourist Visa or on Visa Exempt.

Will you have has 800k in a Thai bank account for at least 2 months?

If no money, do you already have a Bangkok Bank account?

If no Non O, no 800k and no Bangkok Bank account then it could be around baht.

If you get a Non O and have the money in bank then around 8000 baht without a reentry permit.

😂 Which they CANNOT do. If a country has switched to the Evisa system then you can’t go to the Embassy for a visa. You have to use the online system and you are only allowed to use it if you are resident in the country.

Anyway, none of this is of any help to the lady who asked the question, who I was specifically trying to help with my original, and correct, answer.

Her parents have passports from one country (eg Georgia) but currently live in another country (eg Germany). In that case they use the evisa system and need to show proof of residence in Germany to do so.

They clearly don’t want to go to somewhere like Laos just to get a visa!!!

It would be nice if people actually tried to stick to answering the actual questions in the group instead of going off on tangents just to try to show off what they THINK they know.