The OA Retirement Visa requires a heath certificate that you do NOT have any diseases that can be spread to others (AIDS, etc)

So do you have to tell your Dr. to run every medical test on you to prove your healthy, or do they just want a letter from your family physician that certifies your ARE heatlhy????

It's a standard form (normally 100-300 baht) that every clinic/hospital have to certify that you are not being sick of leprosy, tuberculosis, drug addiction, alcoholism or elephantitus.

The same form is used for work permit medical certificate.

Thats nice to know, but I am applying for my A-O Retirement Visa at the Thai Embassy in Los Angeles, California. Any idea what they want / will accept there???

No idea!

Best that you email the L A Embassy and ask them for details,

mailto:[email protected]

Please post the answer here so we all know!  ???

I down loaded the forms from the Thai Embassy web site.  It includes the application form and the medical form.  

The Thai Embassies in the United States, for reasons best known to themselves, actively discourage or are totally unhelpful with "O" type Visa applications (except for their websites, which are all run, for Visa purposes, from LA).

Try the Counslates - the recent best is Houston.  Call them, get the information you need for an "O" Visa, preferably for one year - then come to Thailand, and if you are over 50 (not 55), have 800,000 baht in a Thai bank or more than 65,000 baht per month pension, or a combination of the two, or a Thai wife (lowers required bank amount to 200,000 baht), get a retirement Visa so you won't have to make a Visa run every 3 months. And don't forget to get a multi-entry re-entry permit so you can come and go as you wish.