What Are the Requirements for a Marriage Visa in Thailand if I Have a Foreign Marriage Certificate?

and again this turned into a pissing match of what people THINK it might be..

We are done.

In order to "break the chain" of having an O-A visa you need to leave the country and either come back on a 30 day visa exempt entry or a 60 day tourist visa

Then you would buy a 90 day Non-O from the immigration office IF your office will do the conversion

OR

you go to a thai consulate in another country and buy a 90 day Non-O visa based on marriage.

Then you come in get stamped in for 90 days and after that runs down you apply for a yearly extension of stay at your immigration office by meeting the financial requirements and providing the documentation they need.

Your FIRST step in doing this would be to see if your local immigration office issues in country 90 day Non-O visas based on someone having a 30 day visa exempt or tourist visa entry AND see what the requirements are for doing it

@Steven ********

, okay, lets get this sorted out. You CANNOT change your O-A visa to an O visa inside the country. Period, end of story.

Or just put some money in a Thai bank, get a NON O based of retirement over 50, and make a yearly extension of stay with no border runs ;)

Time to get things clear, the picture above is an example of a visa, you get/buy at a Thai Consulate or Embassy. The picture at the bottom is a stamp from your local Immigration Office and called like the text is line 2 Extension of Stay. They not only look different, they have different rules, regulations and requirements, like: a Visa (without -A or -X) only let you stay max 90 days inside the country and an Extension of Stay allows you to stay max 1 year in the country. We can name both a visa or a stamp or after a city in Thailand, your favorite bars what ever, but it is what it is and what ever name we like to give it, the original name and the rules regulations and requirements do not change.

Sorry for the off topic, but I'm reading a lot about Non O visas and 90 day border runs. I'm a Non-O holder (not retirement), based upon my Children / Family (not marriage) and I also have an insurance + WP + TM30. All I normally do is to get my yearly extension at Chaeng Whattana and make my 90 day Report there. Is the border run a new thing?

Non-O still requires 90 day border runs??

All this swapping and changing around in order to avoid this new legislation is only going to end one way. That will be teers all round.

Watch this space.

If your current Extension of Stay is valid until 5 Jan 2020 and you do NOT have a valid re-entry permit you can leave Thailand between today and 5 Jan 2020. IF you have a valid re-entry permit, you have to wait till after 5 Jan 2020 to apply for a new visa, meaning your leave on the 4th or the 5th of Jan.

Only option you have: After the valid until or enter before date on your Non Immigrant O-A visa or if you have a valid Re-Entry Permit, on the last day of permitted up to ../../.. you leave Thailand or make sure you come back after this date and visit a Thai Consulate to apply for a NEW Non Immigrant O visa based on being married to a Thai National. As you do not like t make border runs, a singe entry will do. You get 90 days of stay on entry, and after 60 days you visit your local Immigration Office and apply for the 1 year Extension of Stay based on being married to a Thai National.

Here’s an idea, admins can confirm (or deny) you could apply for the 60 day visiting family extension when your Non O-A expires and then convert to a marriage extension?

If you apply for a VISA, that is correct. But you can not apply for a VISA of you already hold the Non Immigrant O-A visa at an Immigration Office

And did you ask the Immigration Office in Chang Mai that you can change from the Non Immigrant O-A visa into a Non Immigrant O visa (the difference is no -A) because as you just visit and apply for the Extension of Stay based on being married to a Thai National with basis your Non Immigrant O-A visa you still need the health insurance.

And where do you like to go to apply for the Non Immigrant O visa based on being married to a Thai National

It varies a bit from consulate to consulate, where are you applying?

Hi Steven, you will need to get your marriage certificate legalised in Thailand. It involves going to the embassy in Bangkok, getting it certified then getting translated. After that you will need to get it legalised by the MFA.