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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing Retirement Visas and we are discussing O and O-A Retirement Visas. For those unaware, O and an O-A there is a retirement sort of category. Actually it all falls under the miscellaneous category under Thai Immigration Law, under the Immigration Act but regulatorily there are sort of two strains if you will of Thai Retirement Visa. There is an O-A Retirement Visa and then there is an O Retirement Visa. In point of fact that is also an O-X Retirement Visa which is a really long term Retirement Visa; we are not going to get into that in this video mostly because it is kind of a rare thing. Most folks don't get into the O-X.

The O and the O-A as we have noted in prior videos, for example an O Retirement Visa currently does not require Insurance in order to extend in-country although as discussed previously there is kind of a de facto requirement in the sense that for Thailand Pass you may need Insurance at least right now to get back into Thailand even if you are on an O Retirement Visa, but to extend No.

The question is: "In the future is it possible that they may just consolidate all the rules and it will just reply apply to all Retirement Visas?" Possibly, although I would say that I think there is a good chance that they may want to keep kind of a differentiation for those extenuating circumstances where an Immigration Officer may need to favorably exercise discretion in an applicant's favor because for example, they may have aged out; it may not be able to get insurance anymore for just one example and therefore they need to remain in O retirement status, so-called "grandfathering" them in. Perhaps. It remains to be seen. I have had a lot of people ask me about this because there have been a lot of changes on the O-A side here recently. It could happen. I think, you know I have said it before and I will say it again, I think long term it is not imprudent to presume that they could do that but right now and for the immediately foreseeable future, it does not appear to me that that will be the case.