Is it easier to obtain a marriage visa or a DTV visa in Thailand?

If you alter have a wife and want to keep her, id go with marriage. As asingle, i went the dtv route

Depends if you married 🤔

Depends on who the boss is in both circumstances…… 🤣

Depends what she looks like 🤣

Your wife doesn't know?

oh it depends on what you define as easy.... short- time or long time? lol

So which visa do you want and of course the reason, marriage less money tied to the bank at poor interest rate plus allowed to work once you get a permit. Retirement more money tied up in the bank and not allowed to work. The rest I have no idea about. I do my own visa renewal first time bloody pain but now pretty easy.

Marriage visa and save headaches by using an agent. IMO an agent is worth every baht when competent and fair priced. Can ask here for agent referral in your area

Every expat have their own story and experience of Immigrations officers around the country. What's true today can be lie tomorrow 🙏😢

Depends what you qualify for

Can I get a DTV visa in Laos? Has anyone done it there? 🙂

Depends. Did you find one to marry, yet? (Just kidding - wanted to make a silly comment once, anyway John Stanners summed it up aready)

The easiest would be the DTV. But what is your purpose for the visa?

Dtv, there’s fuck all easy about being married!

Wow!

DTV

After your divorce you will have no visa and need to leave the country in 7 days. Your ex wife will take any assets you have left. Pretty simple

Marriage visa in Korat.

14 years now.

Easy if you prepare.

1hr.

Then go back in a month to collect the 11 months.

Never a problem.

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What’s your priorities?

In my humble opinion, stay single and apply for non “O” and multiple exit/entry visa. If over 50 that is…

I just recieved my marriage extension yesterday at Jomtien immigration . I did it myself mainly because many Agents I approached either didnt want to do it , or wanted big money to do it for me .

I got the required documents print out from immigration and followed it to the letter .On the day of my appointment with the officer , I waited over 3 hrs and sat another hour with her , she accepted my application after a very thorough review and gave me an under consideration stamp for 1 month in advance . 2 weeks later I had a visit from some Immigration officers at my home . They took some photos and details from a Thai witness and left .

I returned to Immigration yesterday morning to be informed they were still reviewing my application and would contact me when done . Went home and later in the afternoon was contacted to come in and recieve my marriage extention .

Quite a stressfull process , but relieved its done now .

In conclusion there is a lot of documentation to compile and they are far stricter than when doing a retirement extention .

Dtv by far lol

We'll by that question I'd say your marriage visa would be a scam eh, you would marry your thai partner because you love them not because it's the easiest visa to get..

DTV

If you have a sick buffalo get a marriage, if you have a man bun and a camp satchel get a DTV 😜😁

Genuine question. Why are so many people set against the visa through marriage? I've read that so many people either choose the, "retirement visa" (even though they are married to a Thai) or at some point, switch to it saying it's easier and much less hassle. I understand if some people are in a failing marriage or not fully trusting their spouse it makes sense, but if everything is hunky dory what's the issue? If you are in a solid marriage why wouldn't you opt for the visa based on that? Is it that difficult to get?

Well, it depends on whether you have a spouse or not 😂

Christ sake get the proper visa for which you qualify, if you are married to a Thai get a Marriage visa, if you are a remote worker or want to participate in soft power activities get a DTV

DTV, especially if you are not married.

Non O if you are 50 for a Retirement Visa. Much easier than Marriage certificate

Marriege can be easier if you do it through an agent. But, if you do it yourself then forget about the official paper that you get at immigration since it is only 50 percent. Immigration does not like when you do marriage visa by yourself. I've been 6 times already and they are still requiring some documents that even thai people who are helping me say makes no sense. But, if you have nothing to do like me, you can try going to immigration every day to check your documents till they run out of things they wanna see. Just be patient when they tell you it is the last thing you need to do, then next day you find out you need one more document, then suddenly another one)

You should probably make the right visa

Not the easiest

It depends on your purposes of getting a visa

If you want a visa that allows you to hold a work permit and thus work inside Thailand then you want a marriage visa

If you want a visa that allows you to live in Thailand and do nothing you want a marriage visa

If you want a visa that allows you to work remotely from Thailand then you want a DTV based on workation

I've ignored soft power because you can easily do any soft power activity on a marriage visa

The other big difference is a DTV is a tourist visa, you won't be able to open a bank account and you will also have to leave Thailand every 180 days, whereas a marriage visa is a Non-immigrant visa so you can open bank accounts, do all the normal things associated with living in a country and never have to leave if you don't want to

Is it easier to keep a wife or a job or an appointment?