What is the best visa for a UK national married to a Thai citizen to live in Thailand?

@Ally ***********

you can't apply for a Non-O inside Thailand if you do not yet have a Thai bank account with 800,000 THB already sitting in it . . nowwhere did the OP mention they already have a Thai bank account . .for an application to the Non-O VISA outisde of Thailand, you can use funds in ANY bank account anywhere in the World as long as you prove it is in your sole name . .this is the part where you were wrong, or better, where you didn't explain it correctly

I am fully aware of the married visa regulations.. having personally jumped through all the hoops the OA is facing myself.. and you are wrong again I'm afraid because the OA only needs 400,000 sitting in a Thai bank account to apply for a non-o or extension based on marriage in-country.. you are quoting the higher summer of 800,000 which is needed for a retirement visa.. and that is totally irrelevant to the OA's situation.. furthermore, you are assuming the OA doesn't have a Thai bank account.. his post does not state whether he does or does not have an existing bank account in Thailand.. and you have assumed he does not without asking him the question.. my advice was wholly centred on the marriage certification necessary to apply in-country.. and did not touch upon the visa options available to him in his own country or indeed the funding requirements.. which clearly do not require funds to be held in a Thai bank account.. so you are challenging me about something i didn't say.. because you are not reading the sentence you underlined correctly.. please tell me where i said he needs a KR2 (or KR22) to apply for a non-o based on marriage in his home country.. and where he stated he was intendingvto apply for a retirement visa !?!? 🙈

@Ally ***********

you assume and assume and assume . . . . myself, I am able to READ. I fully understood the question. Only one point was unclear when he said "married in Thailand by muslim ceremony" upon which I had to tell him that this does not constitute a legal marriage in Thailand. . . to which he corrected himself saying that indeed they had their marriage registered by the Amphur, too. . . .OMG some people here are so unbearable

@Greg **********

Sorry, but i have read every single comment on this thread and the OA has never once said 'we have already registered our marriage at the local Amphur'.. or said 'we already have a Kor Ror 2.. maybe you are referring to a private message that the rest of us cannot see.. but I'm absolutely certain he has not confirmed either of those things on this thread.. i can only deduce that you bunked off school on the days they taught how to accurately comprehend words in the written form.. as opposed to your own interpretation of what somebody has written.. because i didn't didn't assume anything at all.. i simply responded to the facts that were available at the time.. and those facts still remain the same.. despite your attempts to invent things the OA has not said! Think you should look in the mirror before you start throwing insults around buddy!!

@Ally ***********

Ireplied to him 8 (!!) hours ago: "you can get the 90-days Non-Imm-O marriage Visa in the UK with your UK marriage documents, but in order to apply in Thailand on Immigration for the 1-year extension of the stay permit, you need your marriage registered inside Thailand because Immigration wants to see a Kor Ror 22 marriage registry printout from the Amphur. You need to get your marriage legalized on the Royal Thai Embassy London, and co-legalized in Thailand"

@Ally ***********

you missed the fact that the OP is married to a Thai wife, and thus he is elegible for a Non-Imm-O Family Visa ? And he needs the Kor Ror 22 in order to apply for the extenson. I outlined EVERYTHING, you don't need to repeat what I already wrote

@Greg **********

oh sorry may be I wasn’t clear about us, the original post was married in uk.

Our case is we were legally married in Thailand not uk.

Planning for our retirement half and half. My is ok I’m both British and Thai.

My husband is British, should we start from married visa or where should we go from here.

@Supreedee ****************************

YOU don't need any visa, you nenter on your Thai passport. Your husband needs the 90-days Non-Imm-O marriage visa, through the E-Visa online system of the Royal Thai Embassy London. . . in Thailand, he needs to open a Thai bank account and ASAP transfer a minimum of 400,000 THB into it (as a UK citizen he cannot get an income affidavit issued by his embassy)

@Greg **********

thank you.

@Denny ******

Thanks..I think that will only apply to the very wealthy trying to evade wealth taxes.. that is my un derstanding anyway.

@Sarah *****

I wouldn’t put anything passed them tbh

@Frank ********

That's really helpful.! ..not.