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Can my wife apply for a Non-O spouse visa while I apply for a Non-O retirement visa in Thailand?

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Apr 11, 2022
3 years ago
Peter ****
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My wife and me will get a 60 days tourist visa to enter Thailand. I intended to change the 60 days TR to non o visa under retirement. My question is: my wife can change to non o spouse visa at the same time I change to non o retirement visa ? Or she need to wait until I got my non o retirement visa ?

We intended to do it in pattaya immigration.
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The question is about the process of changing a 60-day tourist visa to a Non-O retirement visa while in Thailand, and whether the author's wife can simultaneously apply for a Non-O spouse visa. Comments indicate that the wife cannot change her visa type in Thailand at the same time and will need to either apply for the Non-O dependent visa at a Thai embassy abroad or wait until her husband secures his Non-O retirement visa.
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Steve *******
If you're applying for a visa anyway, why bother with the Tourist visa? Just get the Non Imm O before you get here, much easier than in Country.
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Bob **********
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 it's not hard to get it here your wife should be able to piggyback your visa
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Bob **********
But you'll need insurance in your home country
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Steve *******
@Bob *********
 Not hard but easier in your home country especially if you're going to apply for a visa anyway.
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Peter ****
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@Steve ******
 we don’t have non O in my country (Hong Kong). Only non OA
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Lyndon ************
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 you could ask HK if they would sell you a non-o, it's possible they may sell it even though it is not listed
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 Mandatory insurance from one of 14 companies.
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Steve *******
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 Nope, that's for the Non Imm OA visa
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Stuart *********
You can’t get a spouse dependent inside of Thailand. You could either apply for the non o for you at your home country and for your wife to get a non o dependent there, or once you have your in country one you’d need to leave to a nearby embassy to get her dependent O.
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Peter ****
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@Stuart ********
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/8.A-PERSON-WHO-HAVING-RESIDENCY-IN-THAILAND-NON-O.pdf
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Peter ****
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Does it mean that , she can only apply at my country the 90 day non o ( based on dependent of person with retirement visa) after I get my retirement visa?
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Lyndon ************
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 I think AFTER the you get the 90 day Non-O your wife could go to a nearby consulate and get the 90 day non-O using the marriage certificate and your 90 day Non-O as proof of why she wanted it.
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@Peter ***
 I might me well off the mark... But looking at the immigration web site, 8 & 9 would seem to fit the bill. Perhaps Stuart can elaborate further?
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Stuart *********
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 You can probably get for a person on a non B but I’m certain they won’t do it for a retirement
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Peter ****
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@Lyndon ***********
 yes right… I just don’t know whether we can apply to change the visa at the same time, or I have to get the retirement visa first , then my wife apply it after that.
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Lyndon ************
@Peter ***
 sorry, I'm hearing from other people also confirming it's not possible to add a spouse to a retirement from a tourist visa in country. She would need to arrive on a 90 day non-o
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Peter ****
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@Stuart ********
 when I check the immigration website, there is spouse visa for non Thai national, why it cannot apply it in Thailand ?
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Peter ****
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@Stuart ********
 if I apply the non o retirement in my country, then it will be a non OA, which I don’t want , because I have to buy insurance every year . That is the reason I intended to come to Thailand then change to Non o retirement.
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Stuart *********
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 what country are you applying from? Only one I know that forces an OA is Australia.
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Peter ****
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@Stuart ********
 Hong kong
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 can you not get a Non O for retirement there?
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Peter ****
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 they only have non OA. No non O based on retirement.
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