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A quick update. I applied for a 90 days non-imm O e-visa based on marriage yesterday. Approved in less than 24 hours, so I can't complain about the service. The only issue I had was setting up an account to apply. Took more than ten attempts. I tried with a Yahoo e-mail, and while I received verification links, every time I clicked on them, the website said the link was invalid. Tried a Windows 10 desktop, a Windows 11 laptop, Chrome, Edge, no luck. In the end, I used a different e-mail with the Opera browser. Then finally I was able to create an account. Thanks once again for all the helpful advice. It allowed me to understand my options better.

Six months in Australia, Less than six months in Thailand once some time spent in KL, Singapore etc. is deducted. Doing back-to-back sixty-day visa exempt entries, interspersed with flying for a few days out of the country was sounding good, but if I'm possibly going to run in to problems with immigration, then I won't risk it. A 90 days non-imm O e-visa based on marriage, followed by a few days overseas e.g. Singapore, then return on a sixty-day visa exempt entry, followed by three months plus in Australia... would I encounter problems that way? Returning from time in Australia I would get another "O" visa.

I hear you, but I view it this way. I still love to travel. Leaving to go outside of Thailand for a week, a month, etc. from time to time, the cost isn't a concern. I personally don't like being in Thailand during April, May when it is way to hot for my liking. Maybe if I wasn't up physically to hop on planes and drag a bag around with me, then I might find staying in Thailand year in, year out more acceptable, but right now I'm still fit enough to enjoy travel. The yearly multi Non "O" suited my situation. I'm fortunate to be in a position that 400k is ok if I had to tie it up in a Thai bank. While I can get a better return in Australia on money invested, if I needed to deposit it in Thailand, then it is what it is. I've spent many years in Thailand using multi-entry Non-O visas. Never set foot in an immigration office, just got stamped in at the airport or in the bad old days, at Poi Pet. I'm still fortunate to have a choice and my preference is to avoid government departments if I can. Exactly 👍

Thanks for all the replies; very helpful. For me, it means being in Australia April to July, plus another three months at some other part of the year. I'm better off financially doing this, for the next couple of years at least. This might be the option that works for me, with one or two sixty-day visa-exempt (if that is the correct terminology) visits. The cost of traveling in and out of Thailand isn't an issue. Okay. Now I understand it better

Hello, In the past, as an Australian married to a Thai, I would always get a one year, multiple-entry non-immigrant "O" Visa, issued in Australia. I would depart Thailand for Singapore, KL etc. every ninety days and, on returning, get stamped in for another ninety days. I'm trying to understand what I should be selecting from the e-visa menu options. I'm not a retiree but I am over fifty years of age, married to a Thai, and split my time between Australia and Thailand. I rang the Thai Embassy in Canberra. They told me there is no longer a yearly non-immigrant "O" visa, that now I can only get six months (I didn't get details). They suggested I could also return without a visa, get a sixty-day entry, and later go to immigration to extend for a further thirty days, with some other documentation. I didn't ask any further, but are my only options in November 2024, a six-month non-imm-O? visa, or leaving before my sixty days/ninety days are up and returning a few days later to start another 60+30 day stay? If I do the 60 day entry +30 days extension, then depart and return after a few days outside Thailand, am I going to run into problems? I thought immigration didn't like back-to-back entries like this. Or can I really just enter, leave before sixty days (by air) return after a few days in Singapore, rinse, and repeat? I would spend less than six months total in Thailand per calendar year, at least for the next couple of years. I don't want a retirement visa because I'm not retired and prefer not to have to visit an immigration office. I would prefer to keep things simple, as I have done for years. I'm fine with having to exit Thailand by air every ninety days (or sixty days). If anyone could suggest what options might be best for me, I would be grateful.