Meeting Up plus Visa confirmation

Post by **DavidH** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:22 am

Help and advice.

Hi and help!
My wife, young son and myself are coming to Hua Hin on the 19th January for a couple of weeks. This is the first advance raiding party visit ahead of moving full time to
Hua Hin next September.
I am English, my wife South Korean. We are hopefully just a very normal family, looking for a relaxed and quiet life.
We have lived in Asia before, but want to retire and put roots down long term in or around Hua Hin.

I will be 50 by next September and will take up a retirement visa. However my wife is 35 and our young son will be 18 months old. (â€œOâ€

Post by **DawnHRD** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:24 am

Hi David,

Welcome to HHAD.

I've deleted your other 2 identical posts. I think you'll find that posting a request in more than one subforum doesn't actually make for more answers & can confuse things.

Good luck with getting some answers & possibly meeting some new friends.

Post by **lomuamart** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:06 am

You will be able to extend your Non Imm O visa for a year at a time based on retirement. The qualifications will revolve around your being over 50 years of age and your meeting the financial requirements which are an overseas income of minimum 65K per month (verified by your Embassy) or 800k in a Thai bank account for 3 months prior to application, or a combination of the two, as long as the combination of monthly income and savings accrue more than 800K.
That's you taken care of.
Your wife will be able to "piggyback" on the basis of your income/savings, so only one 65k per month/800k in a Thai bank will suffice.
So, based on your extension, you and your wife will be OK and only have to report to Immigration every 90 days.
I'm pretty sure your son will also be able "piggyback" on your extension as well until he's 16/18 years old, but I'm not 100% sure of that.
The relevant Immigration laws are here:
http://www.immigration.go.th/nov2004/2n ... p606EN.pdf