O A Retirement Visa

[alantheembalmer]

My wife and I both qualify in our own rights for an o a retirement visa.

We are in the process of trying to sell our business in the UK, and then we will be retiring to Thailand. We will be going to our condo in Bangkok in September 2008 for a two week holiday, before returning to the UK to hopefully complete the sale, but, with the current credit crisis, who knows!

We were wondering whether it is better to get all the formalities completed at the Thai Embassy in London, where we can obtain our o a visas, before the holiday, so activating our visas, or is it better to wait until we have completed the sale of our business, which could be someway off, and then getting the visas? If we get the visas and enter Thailand for a two week holiday, do the Thai authorities take a dim view of you leaving the country for maybe another seven months, and what happens to the 90 day reporting period, particularly as this will be our first visa? We would prefer to get our visas now as we have time to spare, but if this causes too many problems we would like to know now.

Many thanks for any help or advice you can give.

[Lite Beer]

My wife and I both qualify in our own rights for an o a retirement visa.

We are in the process of trying to sell our business in the UK, and then we will be retiring to Thailand. We will be going to our condo in Bangkok in September 2008 for a two week holiday, before returning to the UK to hopefully complete the sale, but, with the current credit crisis, who knows!

We were wondering whether it is better to get all the formalities completed at the Thai Embassy in London, where we can obtain our o a visas, before the holiday, so activating our visas, or is it better to wait until we have completed the sale of our business, which could be someway off, and then getting the visas? If we get the visas and enter Thailand for a two week holiday, do the Thai authorities take a dim view of you leaving the country for maybe another seven months, and what happens to the 90 day reporting period, particularly as this will be our first visa? We would prefer to get our visas now as we have time to spare, but if this causes too many problems we would like to know now.

Many thanks for any help or advice you can give.

Up to you. If you do it the way you want you will not have to do the 90 day report as you will not be here.

You may need a RE Entry permit when you leave. Not sure how O-A Visas work. Others will know.

[lopburi3]

If you both obtain non immigrant OA multi entry visas (each qualify with 800k in a bank account and medical/police check) there would not be any problem with your schedule. Any entry into Thailand during the one year validity of a multi entry visa would result in a new one year permitted to stay stamp. If you had a single entry visa you would have to obtain re-entry permits before leaving Thailand to keep your current one year permitted to stay stamp alive for your return. Most of your one year would appear to be outside of Thailand in that case. You do not make 90 day address reports if you are not in Thailand - each entry re-starts the 90 day clock.