What are the steps and considerations for marrying a Thai national and obtaining a marriage visa in Thailand?

Then you don't need money in the bank or proof of income just your marriage certificate and your wife's ID

@Derek **********

I mean you have to do a border run

@James ********

yes thanks my wife is a good woman.. Non 0 visa stops immediately.. Change to Non B takes a few days and I get fined 500 for every day 😅😅

@John **********

same here with my thai gf she buy so much expensive stuff for me. So if i would be putting on the paper i think she treat me more then i treat her. So if someone say it will always be about money you dont know what you talking about, or you just saying what you hear from others.

@John **********

an exception

@John ********

how rude

@Lawrence *********

I haven't actually been asked to show any income and my application is now complete, I was given this by the local amphur in Bangkok but didn't end up using that amohur in the end so maybe some requirements are amphur specific.

@Lawrence *********

Thailand has enough poverty. They don't want to import more.

@Stephen *********

far from it. Nearly 30 years of Thailand, I go there to spend up big.

@Mo *****

each country seems to have its own name for it. For Australians CNI or certificate of No Impairment.

@Nigel *********************

American? Your on the wrong side of the Atlantic daft lad!

@Nigel *********************

no shit Sherlock! The 400k is for the visa. Obviously a Thai will not require a visa.

@Nigel *********************

interesting requirements

@Nigel *********************

You had to wait the Amphur? I was under the impression that was a simple process, much like "going down to city hall"? Was your wait on paperwork?

@Barry ******

and in between 5555

@Nigel *********************

I'm very very lucky to have a good Thai wife, has her own house, car, motorbike, gold, money in the bank before she met me, but I have seen bad stuff hapoen to others, and just the general attitude of Thai people that we (Farangs) are all some super rich suckers here to be sponged off of.

Especially country people, who don't mind sending their daughters and sons off to slave away in menial jobs in the city miles from home, and send money back for Por and Mare so they can sit around drinking and complaining. Then see more easy dollar signs when a Farang shows up Lol.

I've tried to de-programme and teach my wife that it's so wrong to pull your kids down, sponge off of them, expect to be 'looked after'.

Yeah yeah yeah..I know full well it's in alot of Asian cultures to ruin your chances of ever getting ahead in life by pouring all your hard earned back to poor impoverished simpletons who have no idea how to manage money to make merit and honor and respect your parents, creating the common cycle of inter-generational poorness, nobody ever gets ahead...ever....parents demand by guilt tripping to pull the kids down to their level.

If you love your kids you want to see them succeed, to launch them to a better life, better than you did, lift them up...and never ask them for handouts.

I don't know if she will ever accept this concept, tradition (read guilt tripping manipulation) runs strong and deep!

@Philip *********

She's welcome to everything I got... 100% of nothing seems a fair deal 🤣🤣🤣

@Jordi *******

income of thb earned in Thailand will do the trick.

@John ******

dunno. Immigration won't give you the visa without it though. For the one year extension it needs to be in the bank (Thai bank your name only) for min 2 months.

@John ******

IF you want a visa based on marriage, you have to show money in the bank (at least 400,000thb) for at least 3 months before the visa application.

EDIT: Two months, not three.

Dowry= voluntary.

@Deanna ******

some do and some don't. I didn't pay anything.

@Spencer ******

He asked for steps to go through, and this was the first thing that came into my mind. I live together with my girlfriend, we even have a 2 year old baby together. Cannot think about even 1 reason to marry. What will it change? It can only give problems. How many marriages end up in a divorce? Was it 50 or 60% ?

@Dylan ********

Just buy a visa. Cheaper in the long run.

@Dylan ********

That sounds like a bad decision.