Hi,

Totally shocked! Moving to Thailand 12th November as a person aged 50 and over. Bringing 4 dogs with us, everything organised and flights booked. Applied for non-immigrant o visa, followed the requirements to the LETTER! Have just been refused and told we must apply for a non-immigrant o-a visa directly with the Royal Thai Embassy in London in PERSON!!!

Apparently, they changed the rules on 1st September. Well thanks for updating your website, or even telling the staff at Hull.

We now have to get police and medical records, 1 years bank statements, get everything certified by a notary public, travel from Jersey to London, hopefully get seen between 9 and 12, and fingers crossed all will be in order before we fly!!!

Unbelievable!!

I have removed a nonsensical post about MTO, of which no mention was previously made in this topic, and an off-topic post about documentation for dogs.

Hi,

Totally shocked! Moving to Thailand 12th November as a person aged 50 and over. Bringing 4 dogs with us, everything organised and flights booked. Applied for non-immigrant o visa, followed the requirements to the LETTER! Have just been refused and told we must apply for a non-immigrant o-a visa directly with the Royal Thai Embassy in London in PERSON!!!

Apparently, they changed the rules on 1st September. Well thanks for updating your website, or even telling the staff at Hull.

We now have to get police and medical records, 1 years bank statements, get everything certified by a notary public, travel from Jersey to London, hopefully get seen between 9 and 12, and fingers crossed all will be in order before we fly!!!

Unbelievable!!

Was it Hull that told you to get the OA visa. If yes you should try to get your single entry visas at Birmingham or one of the other honorary consulates.

Unless you both can qualify for the OA visa it is not a good option because the one that does not get it will be making border runs every 90 days using a multiple entry O visa. A OA visa entry does not qualify for a dependent extension at immigration.

If you cannot get the single entry non-o visas the best option would be to get single entry tourist visas. And one of you would apply for a change of visa status at immigration showing the financial proof of 800K baht in a Thai bank or 65K income. Then after 60 days apply for an extension of stay. Then the one without an extension would need to travel to a nearby embassy or consulate and get a single entry non-o visa by showing the extension of stay the other one has. Then 60 days after entry apply for a a dependent extension.

Hi,

Totally shocked! Moving to Thailand 12th November as a person aged 50 and over. Bringing 4 dogs with us, everything organised and flights booked. Applied for non-immigrant o visa, followed the requirements to the LETTER! Have just been refused and told we must apply for a non-immigrant o-a visa directly with the Royal Thai Embassy in London in PERSON!!!

Apparently, they changed the rules on 1st September. Well thanks for updating your website, or even telling the staff at Hull.

We now have to get police and medical records, 1 years bank statements, get everything certified by a notary public, travel from Jersey to London, hopefully get seen between 9 and 12, and fingers crossed all will be in order before we fly!!!

Unbelievable!!

Did you try to apply for a non-O visa or an O-A visa?

Hull is a honorary consulate and cannot issue an O-A visa, that has been the rule for ages. Only consular sections of embassies and general consulates can issue an O-A visa. Nothing has changed with regards to that.

What Hull can do is issue a single non-O visa, unless Hull now has been told that based on retirement people should apply for an O-A visa at the embassy. But that would be the first report about this.

I have removed a nonsensical post about MTO, of which no mention was previously made in this topic, and an off-topic post about documentation for dogs.

MTO - Multiple Type O

Over 65 with a "pension" can obtain a multi-entry visa from their home country.

If the persons pension income does not meet the requirements of obtaining an extension of stay they have to leave Thailand once the visa expires. (If used wisely 15 months approx can be obtained.)

From what I know it is unlikely that a multi-entry visa based on being over 65 could be obtained from any nearby country.

Expensive return flights to the home country for the purpose of obtaining back to back "over 65" visas is likely to be a significant deterrent if one only has a limited income !

It suits a friend of mine as he was divorced (so could longer get a marriage extension) and it gives him 15 months to find another wife