What can I do after being denied a marriage visa extension in Thailand due to my previous Non-Immigrant ED visa status?

@Christian ********

That is the strangest thing I have ever heard, I know of many many people who had ED visa/extensions for studying at a private school (language, self defense, muay thai) who got married to a thai, cancelled their extension from their school and immediately applied for a new yearly extension based on marriage 😕

I think it might be the covid extensions in between,

BUT

are you SURE they gave you the 60 day visit family extension and not a covid extension?.

I doubt you talked to the section head of L1 out there (they aren't even DOWNSTAIRS in those cubby holes, the gurls that sit in the back desks are just section 'leaders'.

Still quite a strange situation.

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@ Kevin *****

l there's no reason you shouldn't be able to get a 2 month visit family extension as that can be given on ANY entry/extension stamp and has nothing to do with the previous visa/extension you were on.

In hindsight you probably should have moved the money earlier and went for the marriage extension right off the cancelled ED extension.

Still a strange situation as well.

in BOTH cased I'd have said I want to file a written appeal and seen if they changed their tune.

Usually the threat of filing a written appeal that gets reviewed by the real section head is enough to get them to actually follow the rules.

Also when you're out there MAKE them talk to you, NOT at you thru your thai wife. Have your wife (who knows less than you do about visas for foreigners) tell the officer to talk to her husband because it's his visa. That officer tells a thai wife, who tells her husband who tells his wife, who tells the officer is a losing game from the start 🙁

@Christian ********

make what immigration says...... I would recommend go to Singapore make the non o visa , I go first to the web site thaiembassy Singapore upload the documents and there send you a mail for the appointment to get the visa

I had the same problem last week. I was on an Ed for my master degree, finished it, and was on the covid exemption until the 25th. Went to extend for 2 months because I just married a Thai, and I'm waiting on the 2 month wallet wait, and was denied an extension. Then told them I was also receiving medical treatment, which I am, and was also told no, I have to leave. They wouldn't even give me a 7 day extension so I wouldn't go into overstay. So I had to hurry and do the Thailand test and go program and I'm flying to Cambodia on Monday.

So thanks to immigration and their stubbornness, it's costing me about 20k to get a temp visa before I apply for my marriage visa.

Converting from non-ED to non-O has had previous reports of being incredibly difficult or impossible. You may need to leave and return and then apply for a non-O visa inside the country, and then after 90 days apply for your yearly non-O extension. It'll be easier to return on Tourist or visa exempt (if eligible) and then convert inside the country.

Also by leaving you reset your family visit visa and you'll be eligible to apply for that again if you need to.