If my wife passes away, am I still entitled to an extension of stay based on our marriage in Thailand?

@Na***

, if you're married to a thai guy, you could have gotten a 90 day Non-O and then a yearly extension of stay based on marriage without leaving the country at the immigration office. Plus you wouldn't have had to show 400K baht in a bank account because only foreign guys married to tahi women need to do that.

400 k Thai bank if kids in school yes. His tabian ban and I'd signed.

@Naomi *************

thanks, was the 400k in a Thai bank? Were the school papers asked for? What is a guarantee from their dad?

Kids birth certificates (born Australia dad Thai to one of the 2) school papers (they go to Thai school) 400 thousand Thai baht in bank. Guarantee from there dad. My sons father is passed away so my daughters father has taken him as his. He gets his Thai is next week

@Naomi *************

1 year Type-O Multi Entry based on ? what did you have to show?

@Tod ********

I just got 1 year o from Penang without the 3 month.

Thanks again

@Tod ********

. I will report back if and when I do it :)

You might be able to get a year-long multi-entry Non-O based on marriage in Penang but you'd have to show the 400K baht banked (no seasoning) to get it.

@T**

, you can also get the year-long multi-entry Non-O based on marriage at the thai consulate in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam without financials too.

@Tod ********

Thanks, that is the info I needed. Hmm single entry is not so useful

Tod Daniels Thanks, I am aware of the SVK option (we spoke of it previously) it is just absolutely miles away (and awful) by road and flights are lot more expensive than Penang. I am really keen on avoiding Laos 　. With Penang I could possibly take the family as a holiday.

@Ted ******

, I just found out in Penang you can get a 90 day single entry Non-O based on having kids (whether you're married or not when they were born isn't a problem) by showing 400K baht in a bank account (thai or overseas) and it doesn't need to be seasoned.

After that 90day Non-O runs out you can go back again to Penang and they'll issue you a year-long, multi-entry Non-O with the same documentation. I guess you need to get a 90 day Non-O from them first before they'll issue the year one.

If you're married to a thai, just go to the thai consulate in Savannakhet lao and get a year-long, multi-entry Non-O visa for 5000baht without showing any financial requirements. On that visa you'll hafta exit/re-enter the country every 90 days but you're good for 15 months (actually 17 if you get the 60 day extension on the last 90 day entry you can get)

@Tod ********

I can do kids or marriage or both :)

@T**

, what's the reason you're applying for a Non-O?

How sure are you on this

@Tod ********

, do you know if anyone has managed it recently? Does the money have to be seasoned? Still debating the extension or going getting a O-ME from somewhere plus I kind of fancy a holiday anyway :)

Most consulates won't issue it unless you're married to a thai. I have only seen people get 90day single entry Non-O's based on having children here. Although Penang will issue year-long multi-entry Non-O's based on having kids here by showing financials (the amount I'm not sure about I think 100K baht)

I've another 8 years to go yet until I get mine at 66.

Luckily I had company pensions that allowed me to retire early.

To be honest, I think the only benefit I will see out of it and that's that it will pay some of the income Tax on my company pensions.

Glad I just crept in at 65...but don't get any of the yearly increases now and with the £ @ 43 baht I get 25,000 baht per month state pension.

The rule will be pretty much obsolete anyway very soon. The vast majority who haven't yet started to draw a government pension are now in the bracket of needing to wait until they are 66 and 67 after the age increases of when you can actually officially retire on a state pension. Now they want to shift it again to being 70 years old for those people outside these brackets.

So better if I pop my clogs before my wife then.. :-)

@R**

, okay a wacky thai consulate rule that's only implemented in the UK is that better? :O ;)

Tod that's why I said he can only get it in the UK. Apparently they are very easy to get there. It's not a wacky UK rule, it's a Thai Embassy rule!

@R**

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@K**

, only the UK has that wacky 65 y/o rule.

But the thai consulates around here won't issue a year-long multi-entry Non-O based on being over 50 (retirement), they only issue 90 day single entry ones.

No. You can only get it in London if your a UK passport holder.

The 65 year old rule with OAP only applies for getting a multiple entry non-o in the UK.

But can you get at Thai Embassy... in say Laos?

You can get it in the UK from the Thai Embassy.

@La***

, now you're worrying over something that may or may NOT happen concerning an increase in the financial requirements.

Plus the last time they raised the amounts they grandfathered in everyone who was on extensions of stays under the old limits as long as they didn't break the chain of extensions.

Plenty of agents can sort the problem for you at between to bht a year. Depending on who you use.

2.18 In the case of being a family member of a Thai national (applicable only to parents, spouse, children, adopted children, or spouse’s children):

(1) The alien must have been granted a non­immigrant visa (NON­IM). (2) The alien must have proof of relationship. (3) In the case of spouse, the relationship must be de jure and de facto: or (4) In the case of children, adopted children, or spouse's children, said children, adopted children, or spouse's children must not be married, must live with the alien as part of the

family, and must not be over 20 years of age except in case of the person hereof is of illness or disability and cannot live without support of father or mother: or (5) In the case of parents, the father or mother must maintain an average annual income of no less than Baht 40,000 per month throughout the year or must have deposited funds of no less than Baht 400,000 to cover expenses for one year. In case the father of mother requests to be under maintenance of children, the age of father or mother must be 50 years of age or over. For other necessary cases, the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner of Immigration Bureau is granted the authority to make decisions regarding approval on a case­by­case basis. (6) In the case of marriage to a Thai woman, the alien husband must earn an average annual income of no less than Baht 40,000 per month or must have no less than Baht 400,000 in a bank account in Thailand for the past two months to cover expenses for one year.

2.18

there is an over 50, being looked after by their children (who are over 20) extension available to you too

@Troy ********

most people go into the immigration office to check on what to do

how would they know?