How long after getting married can I apply to be included as a spouse on my partner's work permit in Thailand?

Thanks so much!

Jo Plummer Hi. Yes you can send an official copy. We paid for 4 copies and sent just one them. The copies are typed while the "original" is usually completed by hand and longer in length.

Immigration in Bangkok just inspected it and then handed it back. I made photocopies for them, but can't remember if they kept them. They did want to inspect the original legalised and certified one. Good luck

We are just running into this now - we need a legalised copy of our marriage certificate to extend our Ed visa in November because my husband is following my visa, we are both from UK and got married in UK 22 years ago. Unfortunately we didn't have good information about this when we were home this summer, so are trying to work it out now from Thailand and it's a pain. Henry Durrant I hope you don't mind me asking you about this, since you seem to know... I think I understand the process, but have a couple of questions: 1. You send your original certificate to be legalised - correct? We are actually thinking of ordering a copy of our marriage certificate from the General Registry Office - as it's £9.25 and avoids us having to send our cert from Thailand to UK - but it would still be an official certificate. 2. When you show the legalised certificate to the Immigration office during visa extension, what happens? Do they make a copy, or do they just look and give it back. Obviously if it's your original, you can't give it to keep, but if you make a copy for them, does that copy need to be notarised in any way? Any advice would be much appreciated! And I hope is helpful for other Brits searching for this info. cheers!

I’m in the process of helping someone get uk documents legalised in this way at the moment. Definitely difficult to do if you’re not in the uk. The Thai embassy wants payment in cash or postal orders which would be a nightmare to organise from outside the country.

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Well spotted (y)

Definitely get it done in England. I would even try and get a few copies done. It will save grief in future and keep it all safe afterwards.

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This is what you get, on the back of the certificate

@Rachel *********

No, it has to be done in the UK. You can post the document from Thailand to the UK, but doing it while you're in the UK speeds up the process and avoids having to mail it from Thailand.