DrJack54

Make sure that your wife attends immigration with you. That is most often required when switching from extensions based marriage to based on retirement

Can I jump in with off topic question here. Australian pp needing renewal. Can anyone recommend agent for passport renewal. Located Bangkok. Personally don't use agents but currently have reasons for pp renewal

Not required.

That is correct. The 15 days + remaining on permission of stay is to apply for non O from visa exempt or tourist visa entry.

OP, if you for some reason cannot satisfy financials prior to expiry, you could obtain 60 extension to visit wife provided you have not used that already.

This should be main focus. Where to live is least of your concerns as easily sorted. BTW there is a travel forum that covers many/most areas of Thailand provided lots of helpful info. So for visa. A METV would give you 9 months. A non O and subsequent extension would give you almost 15 months. You mention "low on funds" so you could consider use of agents for the non O + extension. Do you have a Thai bank account in your name only? For a METV best to obtain that in AU..

Don't think that's a good idea. He would need to show flight into home country. Also the OP later stated this..... "...but I just prefer to get a Tourist Visa as I'm planning on an extended stay of 60+ days in Thailand." A METV would be overkill

He certainly cannot buy the land past or future. He may have paid for house. Not the point. Currently married. Good guess that his wife would like him to remain in the home. Agreements to facilitate that are often done. What advice have you provided? As usual Nothing.

Sometimes I read posts from folk I have on ignore just to check if they currently posting correct advice. Sadly your posts are full of misinformation and lack of understanding. Sad actually.

No

You may wish to check with Phuket immigration. Usually stamps (eg reentry permit, extension etc) can only be transfered at office where they were issued.

Ta. Typo, I meant annual extensions from a Non O-A.....

With a visa onward flight not required. The question is concerning visa exempt entry and the check some airlines require.

A non O-A is a visa valid for 12 months and is multi entry. If you exit and reenter just prior to it's expiry you would be stamped in for a other 12 months. This effectively gives you 2 year stay. Yes it requires insurance for both years but an added bonus it that it does not require funds in Thai bank account. Annual extensions from a non O require insurance for retirement only. Not required for extensions based on marriage

Some offices do. Some just want to see regular monthly transfer of the funds. I deal with CW.. Time will tell.

Being from Oz I cannot provide income letter from embassy. Currently I am using funds in bank method. At the same time am doing monthly transfers and hoping to change to income as I will be able to show 12 months of transfers when my next extension is due. The difficulty I cannot show funds come from "pension" AU is very different to UK and USA

TBH when I saw you quoted me I did not expect your reply. Think post above mine from Mark Twain ..sums it up. So many threads and predictions prior to any changes. Bit unrelated but I have an aside saying.... Never impose a law that is difficult/Impossible to enforce. Anyway I don't concern myself with "what ifs"

So 5 pages. Let's pray that a mod transfers to "General chat" or "Pub forum" It's so not related to this forum and full of unsubstantiated rubbish.

No problem. You can get minivan from airport to Nong Khai or taxi to central plaza and minivan from there.

Absolute nonsense. Take a flight Bangkok to Saigon you provide boarding pass along with pp. Same when return to Thailand.

Where was expired pp mentioned.

The opportunity cost of locking up 800k per year is significant compared to eg money in shares etc. However the OP did not ask about agents

I missed mention of expired pp. As mentioned ...the chap should exit Thailand asap , pay fine, and nick off.

Absolutely not New pp will do nothing apart from extend his overstay an possibly move into ban.

It's a good question. My comment was based on old posts from ubonjoe (absolutely #1 expert) The current extension would be honored upon death of Thai spouse. (Not the case for divorce) I'm not clear if someone could just change to extension based on retirement at time current expiry of permission of stay. Normally the wife would need to attend for that change. A simple option would be to exit Thailand and reenter visa exempt and do conversion to non O and obtain subsequent extension based on retirement. Obviously need planning for different financial requirements.