@John *******

It has been ages since I looked at the OX requirements. It didn’t seem very favorable to me at the time but if it meets your needs then OK.

@John *******

You would be one of the very few. Good luck. But knowing which visa you are pursuing will give you better answers to your question.

Do you plan on getting an OA visa purchased in the US or is your goal to get an O visa? There are two different sets of requirements.

I haven’t been able to file a 90 day report online for a year. Hopefully the news system will change that. I will register are try it out in January.

Do you have sufficient time remaining time to buy insurance before your extension runs out?

@Tod ********

And apparently 7 more people in that office that day.

@Michael ***********

You can also extend a non-O visa as a retiree.

You can’t extend your OA visa outside Thailand but you could apply for a new OA visa.

While you can purchase an OA visa while you are in your home country you can also return as a tourist and then apply for a non-O visa inside Thailand. Both eventually lead to a 1 year extension.

If she decides to purchase an OA visa in the US then those rules apply. She should be able to use money in the US and she will be stamped in for one year or the to the end of her current health insurance policy. She also, I think, will have to leave without a re-entry permit to void her current permission of stay. After that everything should be the same as before. She would not need to meet the 800k in a Thai bank requirement anymore.

As a strategy, returning to the US to purchase a new OA each year can make sense if you want/need to return to the US anyway and you are able and willing to go through the OA application process each time.