How can I convert my tourist visa to a NON-O marriage visa in Thailand?

Go to your local immigration office and ask them what you need, I did and very happy now 🙏

Just go to immigration and ask. Or easier. Get an agent.

Get or make a checklist of items the local immigration office requires to do what you are wanting to do. That's what I do. They gave me a packet with the TM 87, and other forms required, such as copies of your passport required, lease, landlords ID, Chanote, housebook, bank statement, passport size photos etc. My change to O was based on retirement since I don't have a copy of our US marriage certificate. Everything for my O had to be in duplicate since it is sent to another office for approval. So does the marriage extension from experience. Everything in duplicate and they wanted both to be original bank letters.

Learn the difference between visa exemption and a visa if you want advice.

Best bet go to Loas or Vietnam get a 90 day Non O. When your money has been in bank for two months head to immigration and get extension

You get 3 months first as non o, then you need to apply for yearly extension before one month visa expires. Need to keep 4k for 2 months when apply. I just done.

If you are married, you qualify for a 60 day family extension, do that first and you buy some time.

you will need TWO printouts of the Kor Ror 2 from the Amphur. One for the application to the conversion to the 90-days Non-O Visa, and another one for the application to the 1-year extension. Your won't have to show your Kor Ror 3 original rose bordered marriage certificate, but it is good to take it along when you visit Immigration (always together with your wife)

Given the new regulations gazeted end August and effective 15 September, I’d definitely recommend you go to your local ( nearest) Immigration Office.

They will have someone there to guide you through the proces with fact rather than maybe.

Good luck 🤞

By the way, looking back through answers here -

@Brandon ***********

told you all you needed to know a while ago.

Get a balance statement from your bank, and the letter from them stating it is your account. These, together with your 2 marriage documents, and you should have gotten two copies from the Amphur where you got married, as immigration will keep one original of each (in the future you just show the other original and give them a copy of it), a copy of your wife's Thai ID card, and a copy of the housebook she is listed in. That should immediately get you the first 90 day stamp for bt2000. They might want a copy of your TM30 also. You both always go to immigration for anything visa extension related. The two month bank balance only applies for the one year extension. Immigration will also give you a list of all the documents you will need for your one year extension. Because you already have the bt400,000+ in your bank account, and I assume for more than a month, as soon as you get all the documents, and pictures for the extension you can apply, or after the two months, as that is why the first stamp is for 90 days. The one year extension is bt1900. I might add, keep copies of everything, as next year everything is the same, just needing new pictures, and bank letters, unless you move.

Go to the immigration office you plan to use and ask there. They all have their little differences as to paperwork requirements.

You probably cannot convert to a marriage visa. Immigration requires you to be married for at least 2 months before they will even entertain it. If you just got married, and your permission to stay expires in a month, you are not going to have enough time.

The easiest option is going to be to travel to Laos and apply for the non-O visa based on being married to a Thai.

The other option you have is going to require you to go to your immigration office and ask them if they do the 60-day visiting Thai family extension. If they say yes, then you ask them if they allow conversion from tourist to non-O visa based on marriage. If they also say yes to that, then you would have to apply for the 60-day family extension. Wait to be married long enough to satisfy immigration. Then apply to do the conversion from tourist to non-O. The money does not need to be in the account for any specific amount of time for a marriage visa, but that also depends on what your immigration office says. If you decide to do it that way, you better get very comfortable going to immigration as you're going to be going there to ask if it's possible, going there to apply for the 60 days, going back to apply for the conversion, going back after about a month to pickup the actual non-O visa. Then a couple months later going again to apply for the 1-year extension, which also has an under consideration which means you'll be going back to get the extension. By my count, that's 6 trips in the next few months, and that's if you don't have to leave because you're missing anything.

Or if you went to Laos and came back with the non-O visa, you would only need to go 2 times, once to apply for the 12-month extension, and again to pick up that extension.