What happens to a Thai marriage visa if my spouse passes away?

A retirement visa is a lot less complicated than a visa based on marriage to a Thai. If you have a US passport it's even easier, just get a income affidavit notarized and you don't need to season 400k for months in a Thai account at 0,01% interest.

how to go about it?

Get a residence permit.

yes that is the easy way but the poster seems to have a trouble for add 400.000 baht to a bank account.

But he can request an extension, he must write to the commander of Police department and explain his situation (lawyer can do foer him, easier also)

Human being right can also help.

he has 2 kids.

The way the rules are written state that IF the reason for your extension changes <- which it would in a situation where you wife died and you were on an extension based on marriage. You must immediately notify the immigration office, they will cancel your current extension, and if you can meet the requirements for another type of extension you could apply for that right then OR they'd sell you an extension denied 7 days to get out of thailand stamp and you'd go get a new Non-Immigrant visa and come back to apply for a new extension.

That is how the law is written.. Now how it is enforced in situations like this at the immigration office could be a different thing.

I'd say IF you can get the retirement extension do it, it's not tied to being married, it doesn't go under consideration for 30 days, and there is no home visit by the immigration officers to your house to verify the marriage.

no problem, you can use nariage visa and in case wife die, it will not change but you must report the died within a week. You will have to give some doc. from the city you lives, they will explain you that. (uh if YOU kill your wife the scenario will be different.) lol

Well you should have learned thai fluently in only 1-2 years on an academic lvl and then having a non immigrant visa a few years I guess you could apply for a Residence permit.

If you are on an extension of stay based on marriage, then it is terminated the moment the wife dies. If you are on a Marriage visa then you are good until the visa expires.

People's biggest problem when there wife dies is property in the wife's name.

Then you have a real problem on your hands.

You can't stay on a marriage extension indefinitely if your wife dies.

Yes, married visa, wife dies, you can stay

In the event, I suspect you could simply apply to change over to retirement visa and as long as you meet the requirements they would do that.

I've had a look and there doesn't seem anything that I can find that defined the process other than you must notify immigration within 7 days of your loss and then...

5. In the case where an alien applicant does not meet the full qualifications stipulated by the criteria herein or in other cases not specified in this Order but a competent officer equivalent to or higher than inspector is of the opinion that the alien has legitimate reason for staying in the Kingdom of Thailand, the application shall be forwarded to the Commander of the Royal Thai Police or an authorized competent officer for further consideration of the alien's application.

Every year.

Sorry to put my Q on your Q. This 400k are we gonna show one time or every year when we extend our visa?

Lots of people prefer the retirement route. Saves issues in cases of death and divorce. And a lot less paperwork.

I recall there was a recent case. I can't remember the full detail but I can't remember them making the guy change immediately.

I'm pretty certain you can stay until the end of that particular extension of stay. Then you would need to change too a different permission to stay. There's no widower visa.

You have Two children.

Non O Visa

Child Support.?????

Just get retirment visa...there are many visa services that do it for you and they handle the funds situation...just tell them your story