What should I do if I don't have 2 continuous months of funds for my marriage visa extension in Thailand?

Sep 18, 2020
4 years ago
Louis ************
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Question-I screwed up and let my wife use my bank account debit card after in March I put 400,000 bhat + for my married visa. They kept extending the visa so I didn’t worry. Just not paying attention. Every time it went under 400 I reupped. Now I don’t have 2 continuous months for my September application, no more extensions except, I have the US Embassy letter and can stay until October 26th.

My thought is, go to some low Covid country anywhere in the world then apply to come back into quarantine. Flog myself for being a dumb ass.

Do you think this will work?
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The poster is facing a challenge with their Thai marriage visa application due to insufficient funds in their bank account for the required two continuous months needed for the extension. They are considering leaving Thailand to a different country to restart the visa application process. Responses from the community suggest various options: applying for a 60-day visiting family extension instead, keeping the necessary funds in a personal account, and avoiding leaving the country as it may complicate re-entry. Many commenters also share general advice about managing finances while living in Thailand.
Adnan *******
You cant complain about your wife. Why would a young Thai women marry a man whos twice her age? Its obvious 💰
David *********
Go to a Thai Visa company. I am sure they can help. After all some people don’t have the money either but like magic you have what you want. Just cost more money
Louis ************
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Update-thank you all for the advice-went to immigration with the US Embassy Letter. They gave me an extension until October 11. Told me to call them on the 11 th for further extensions. Not sure why the call but at least I don’t have to leave on the 26th. Again, thanks for the good advice.
Eric *********
Learn your lesson
Mitchell *******
I will add my voice to the "DON'T leave Thailand!!" camp.
Jp *******
i hope your wife didnt read these comments here 😁 more dating tips than visa related
Louis ************
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@Jp ******
no, she minds here own business and isn’t in my phone.
Man ******
@Louis ***********
keep telling yourself that
Charles ****************
Get rid of the wife.

Rent from here on out.
Louis ************
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@Charles ***************
I can’t she a sweet, kind and gentle Thai woman. I’d take a bullet for her.
Man ******
@Louis ***********
would she take a bullet for you?
Louis ************
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@Debbie **************
yes, out of my four wives she’s the most loyal.
Man ******
@Louis ***********
do they all live with you
Louis ************
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@Debbie **************
no, that’s a lifetime of relationships that have gone south.
Man ******
The only thing that women is interested in is your money and she will lie to you to get her hands on and have sex with you to get it. I bet if you tell her she can't have any more money she will leave you in a heartbeat. So tell her that and see how long it takes her to find another man to get her hands on his money
Man ******
I have a dear friend who was looking for a nice woman to just date nothing serious or romantic more
Man ******
I have a dear friend who was looking for a nice woman to just date nothing serious or romantic most for companionship and show him around. So he began looking on Thai dating site to find and lady he could meet and ever one of the ladies he contact via email or FB messenger the first thing that was brought up was I have sex with you and you can pay me or you send me money coronavirus very bad or you take care of me and I will have sex with you and I can tell you ever one of these women only thought about was sex for money and it was all age groups. And I will be the first to say that not all women are like that and they are good women but unfortunately there are a lot of women who are only interested in men for there money and unfortunately there are men who think they have found the women of their dream when all she's after his money even if she has to use sex to get it.
William ************
@Debbie **************
, sorry but is anyone really surprised 😯?
Man ******
@William ***********
well considering he nor I have ever been out of the US (and yes there are women here the same way) yes we were surprised. He knew the culture was going to be different and he was looking forward to experiencing new things. So yes we both were very surprised.
William ************
Debbie.

He will not find love on a dating site , not in a bar or similar in Thailand.

Their culture dictates that the man has to as it were “to take care of her and her family. “

She after all can get a Thai boyfriend later behind his back or she probably has a husband already and is looking to supplement her /their income .

In many cases the husband is instrumental in planning of ensnaring a foreigner .

Mainly for the reason that he doesn’t have to work .

Tell your friend not to be so naive and stay away from Thai woman or he will be left with no money and a broken heart .

If you want a woman who has character go to a village away from Hotels and bars .

Then there will be a chance to find something that’s worth having , that’s real .
William ************
@Debbie **************
The first clue is that these women are on the dating sites in the first place .

It is common knowledge that a significant number of Thailand woman use their assist to ensnare lonely western men .

Western men are naive to think that a young beautiful woman would like a much older man .
Man ******
@William ***********
thank he is not looking for love or sex he is more interested in companionship, his wife passed away years ago and he is just wanting some one to go to dine, movies and show him around. He definitely not looking to take care of her and her family.

William let me ask you this do men enter into arrangements with these women is it a written arrangement to live with them to get paid for sex. And can either party leave at anytime, I read and article similar to this and I don’t under there culture and it was confusing to say the least. Do men that have these arrangements talk about it or wants o keep it their private business even though you might know that they have them ladies living with them.

I think my friend has decided that he is going to come for three months and see if he will like living there after they open the borders.
Helena ********
Anyway, this group is known for having many misogynists making this kind of comments and being a cave of trolls. Just 1 in 10 people actually give good advice, the rest of them just mock and make shitty comments like you guys here. No wonder why Thais are hating more and more occidental foreigners. Bye
Helena ********
@Debbie **************
so much disgusting misogyny in comments. I don't see how this is helping with visa advice and not insulting thai women and women in general.
Nathan ***************
Helena Helenatxu Wanderlust if you want to place angry emojis over peoples comments when you don’t know a few facts about Thailand or how this is helping visa advice

Well here goes if a man finds a good Thai lady they may get married have children and settler down here there or anywhere okay

It’s nothing to do with mysogyny hun

I love women I love women doing there thing independently

If you must know there’s probably more females that dislike the bar girls or shall we say the bad women of Thailand

Do you know why they dislike these women is because of the reputation of Thailand

There’s women that specifically will come of age and they will be a working bar girl that is there choice in life

You have the women who go there specifically to scam so dopey foreigner

So when you say how is this gem helped with visa advice we it’s fucking raised the point to warn men not to go looking for love in bars so it’s solid advice before any future visas may be needed lol

Uses a word but doesn’t see none of the comments are males or females hating women

It’s males or women highlighting the dangers which can happen if you get your tourist visa for the first time to come Thailand and you haven’t got a frigging clue of the dangers that are in this country so comments and angry emojis are piss funny when your input is null and void

Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed hun

Are you okay hun ?

Is this still available hun

Ffs

to put a comment in that certainly isn’t helping visa advice

So I find the irony far to funny 😂
Rob ******
@Helena **********************
Yes , you read many big words , not sure you understand what they really mean . But you definately are an angry soul at heart . Good luck enjoying your life , with such high sensitivity and very easily offended .
Nathan ***************
@Rob *****
haha 😆 perfection
Helena ********
@Rob *****
don't worry about me, I'm having a great life. It's just disgusting how men like you come to countries with lower income to get a thai wife (because in your home country nobody want you) and then complain about women wanting money. 🤦‍♀️
Rob ******
Helena Helenatxu Wanderlust

My wife isn't Thai , and i didn't come to thailand for love . So i guess a wrong start to any of your thinking . I am in Thailand for the people , not here cause i need , just i like . I also like thai food and thai farms . So i guess your great telepathy is way wrong . Which would make the rest of your wonderful statements equally subject . The Thais are actually quite happy to have the older women find partners . But you would need to have ability to understand to cope with that . Yes Thai Visa has its percent like that and a percent like you , both as good or bad as each other . But your brilliance is so amazing . I guess its why you travel , to maybe learn something .

I would still bet on a sad , lonely soul . Godbless .
Adam **********
Thai, pay upfront and ongoing, farung, pay at the end with" settlement".
Dave *********
Paul *******
@Debbie **************
.. presuming that you're not like that.. Will you marry me .. :-)
Man ******
@Paul ******
I was raised right and raised rights right and wrongs wrong. I work I earn my own money and if I was married then I would help support my husband just like I would like for him to support me. It's wrong to scam a man out of money and it's wrong to only be with a man to have sex with him to get money out of him. And unfortunately it happens all over the world. And there are men come to Thailand and enter into arrangements with several women who are only there for the money and what's sad is even though they are having sex I feel sorry for them because that's the only way they can get a woman to be with them.
Qing *******
@Debbie **************
i think its pretty much a barter trade, foreign men coming to thailand thinking of getting an easy bang, thai girls taking opportunity of it making an easy buck. Seems fair to me
Nathan ***************
@Qing ******
mate when me and my wife did your documents for marriage certificate

We was at the embassy and this cool dude with designer gear head to toe walks in with his partner she’s all designer gear . He hasn’t got a clue how Thailand works hasn’t got a clue what to do in embassy

He demands she sorts everything . She does the forms etc etc while he’s using the government computers and looking at £75,000 watches ffs .. and that’s the guy you’re on about lol

First question many older Farang asked me when I was saying should I trust this lady I speak to and later when we married

They all said has she asked for money .. ? Nope she hasn’t

Well you’ve found a good Thai woman

I am generalising it a bit to keep the story simple my wife was embarrassed to ask me for 350 baht the first time

When she earns 200 baht for some work its like she’s won the lottery because she likes her own money ..

Well it’s so funny Farang will put up with bad wife

Bad wife will scam his arse and be gone and money man just buys another version 555 never learns eh
Qing *******
@Nathan **************
i totally agree with you. The problem where most farang are complaining is where they are looking for companionship. Most looking at bars. Thats why they end up feeling conned
Nathan ***************
@Qing ******
yes I tell two of my friends come up north away from Phuket and Pattaya but they don’t listen

The big lights have drew them in like

Fish

Now they have met the bad ladies and wonder why .. 🤔 😆 but they still go back other tourist hotspot and bar girls

Never learn lol
Nathan ***************
@Debbie **************
ha well it’s fortunate that I don’t have money and the wife I married isn’t like those bad stories you hear

So forget the bad stories and appreciate there are plenty of outer cities in Thailand away from Pattaya and Phuket and in those little villages you find original Thai lady who haven’t been working bars, they don’t want to take the rich Farang money all they look for is real love and family

So as the say you can’t tarnish all Thai females with the same brush

Though you could say all females are after our money lol that’s actually more true when I think about it
Charles ****************
But mainly Thai.
Rob ******
@Charles ***************
You haven’t met the Malaysia or American girls , I would bet .
Bobby ********
@Debbie **************
. And that's not just Thai women!! 🤣🤣🤣
Man ******
@Bobby *******
so true not just Thai
Rick *******
Not just Thai, but that is an international rule of life. 😏
Andrew ********
Absolutely!
Glen ********
Basic Thai rule of life. Never share accounts
Tod *********
FIRST; get the ATM card away from your wife and pay attention to your bank balance on the account you're using for your visa :O

Then get the balance above 400K baht so you can start seasoning your money for the 2 months you need.

THEN apply for a 60 day visit thai family extension to buy you the time to have the money season.
Tod *********
IF for some reason you can't get the 60 day visit thai family extension get the letter from your embassy and get the 30 day unable to travel due to covid extension. That will buy you a month (until Oct 26th)
Bob *******
For me I would put another 100k in the account. You can always take it out after.
William ************
Been there had the T Shirt , strongly recommend take the credit card off your wife .

Sure to be more money issues as life goes on .
Bobby ********
@Kool ******
has given the only proper advice here. Just go get a 60 day visiting family extension. You don't need money in the bank to get it, but make sure you've got the 400k in the bank before you do get it, then the money seasons for 60 days enabling you to get a 12 month extension. DO NOT leave the country, and DO NOT use a scummy agent. Oh. And take that card off your wife 🤣🤣
Louis ************
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@Bobby *******
it’s really not her fault, I’ve let her run amok for six years now and she hasn’t broken me yet.
Andrew ********
Get a shared account and control the amount if you must but keep your personal finances hidden and secure, forget the trust bit be sensible. Honest it's the only safe way to go.
Mark *************************
Reapply for an embassy letter after this month. If you leave, the chances you getting back in anytime soon is next to none. Leaving is the worst option. Try to keep extending with the embassy letter or get an agent to settle it.
เอ็ดเวิร์ด *******
Aren't his chances of being re-admiitted influenced on whether his wife is Thai?
Mark *************************
@Edward *******
Yeah, but even Elite Visa holders cant come back in yet. That says something. If you leave now, expect to stay out for at least 6 months, AT LEAST.
เอ็ดเวิร์ด *******
@Mark ************************
And the thing is, during that six months, the TAT will throw out a dozen more half-baked ideas, none of which are doable or rational.
Mark *************************
@Edward *******
yeah, thats just horseshit.
Mark *************************
@Edward *******
like this Special Tourist Visa which only allows 1200 people per month. Like thats gonna do any good. Pffffft.
เอ็ดเวิร์ด *******
@Mark ************************
but you’re leaving out the part that you have to arrive in a chartered or private plane.
Dianne *****
@Edward *******
yes, he would be eligible to return, but he could be locked out for months waiting to get a seat on a repatriation flight and waiting for a vacancy in a quatantine hotel to become available. Some reports of quarantine hotels being booked up until December
Louis ************
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@Mark ************************
anyone know a reputable agent? I’m a virgin at this.
Mark *************************
@Louis ***********
Try Thai Visa Center, they are well known and have done a great job for many.
Tod *********
Agent$$$ .
Darren *********
@Damian ********
gave you the BEST piece of advice.. 60 day visiting family extension - this will allow you to season your funds ready for a marriage extension. DON’T use the embassy letter if you can help it as this MAY complicate your extension application. Get down your local immigration and apply for the visiting family extension, top up your funds and hide your ATM card from the mrs.
Mark ********
Yes. This. This is the only thing you can do really
Mike *********
@Darren ********
Put the money in a deposit account not a current/ card account. It’s still available if you really need it but not easily available to anyone. Put what would have been your top ups in a current account for daily expenses. Always make sure that you are in total control of your finances. You’ll get more respect that way too, believe it or not. Cheers
Darren *********
@Mike ********
deposit accounts are ok.. as long as it’s the type where you can withdraw at any time (with penalty) and NOT the type where you can’t - immigration might not accept this. Foreign currency accounts are also acceptable. However, the main issue here for the OP is the two month period needed to season the funds.
Louis ************
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@Darren ********
I will. Thank you.
Martin *********
@Louis ***********
...did she win at cards?

Get her to top it up...🤨
Charles *********
Good luck from Issan
Bill **********
Strongly recommend you use a SOLO account for immigration monies; a seperate . joint? . account for routine day to day use. Your name only on the Solo acct.
Louis ************
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@Bill *********
after this I will. Just a dumbass running around not paying attention.
Bill **********
@Louis ***********
Can happen to anybody. Just don't leave the country. Too dang hard and costly to get back in.
Billy *******
I bet an agency could smooth out that little wrinkle.
Kool *******
A big thing they are going to look at is why you let it expire. The amnesty did not extend your visa extension. It just gave an amnesty on the overstay fines. You should be able to get a 60 day Visiting Family extension, then after October reapply for your marriage visa extension. That should work
Billy *******
You just need 2 continuous months of 400 or 800,000?
Andrew ********
never ever share an account, NEVER.
Scott *********
@Andrew *******
true.

I

Have my separate one for the visa.
Damian *********
You can extend for 60 days, staying with thai wife they call it or something. Then make sure your over 400k or open a separate account to pay your day to day money into and leave your 400k alone if it’s possible. Hopefully that will give you time needed to get back in line with the money in the bank requirements.
Kathy ****************
If you leave you will have to quarantine when you come back..
Matthew *******
Check dm
Loki ******
seems like the only legal way without outside help 😔
Darren ******
If u leave ( if anywhere will let u in ) on ur return , depending on which visa u try for , if u dont meet the visa needs then u cant change once u apply.

So if u do leave only apply for the visa u can afford and if it's only a tourist visa ur fuked u wont get entry.
Scott *********
How many days you short on the two months.

I know of one case where they let it pass and gave it.

Just lucky I suppose but maybe worth going to talk to them.

They have enough on their plate this month so you never know.
Bill **********
I agree; talk to them, first.
Scott *********
@Bill *********
I agree. Go before 26th.

After then no chance I think
Louis ************
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@Scott ********
im 12 days short on October 26th.
Scott *********
@Louis ***********
go Tuesday with the wife.

I think they will help you.
Scott *********
@Louis ***********
just go in and explain.

They are quite good at the moment.

Got mine coming up next month
Scott *********
@Louis ***********
it’s a long shot but I would try.

No harm in trying. My friend was 3 days.
Louis ************
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@Scott ********
thank you, I will try the face to face request.
Scott *********
@Louis ***********
where in thailand are you
Louis ************
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@Scott ********
I’m thinking I will visit Bangkpk Monday then back to Aran with the letter.
Louis ************
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@Scott ********
I stay in a condo in Bangkok but I built a house for my wife in Sa Kaeo, Aranyaprathet. So my visa visits I drive to Aranyaprathet.
Scott *********
@Louis ***********
good luck.
John *********
Gotta start from scratch.
Steve *******
Don't have any information to give, just wanted to wish you luck. I hope it all gets resolved smoothly, buddy.
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