What visa options are available for a non-retired spouse of a Thai citizen looking to live in Thailand part-time?

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Multi entry retirement visa. Just have to be there at the same time every year to get your one year stay extension stamped in your passport.

What documents and forms do you need?

The application form for the "1-Year Extension of Stay" is available at the immigration office.

Always sign documents and their copies in blue ink.

You will need your passport and a printout of the original 90-days Non-Imm visa.

You will need a current "Kor Ror 22 or 2" from the district Amphur. It costs a few Baht to have a current marriage registration certificate issued at the district. For this, your marriage must be registered in Thailand.

Visit the immigration office that serves your place of residence with your wife.

Your wife should bring her blue house book, her Thai ID card, and/or her passport.

You should visit the Immigration office right after you arrived in Thailand and ask for the handout list of the documents you must submit for the one-year extension application.

Have immigration officials list what you need. Some immigration officials will ask you to provide photos of you in front of your house, inside the house, in the living room, in the kitchen, and so on.

Once you have everything together, go to immigration together and submit your application.

Bring all documents and the "bank letter of guarantee" from your Thai bank, which certifies the two-month layover period. CAUTION: Some immigration officials will ignore the police order and demand a three-month layover period!

Some immigration officials will also want to see your bank book, with statements showing that you receive money from abroad via transfers.

Several passport photos are required (two passport photos for a re-entry permit) and a current TM30 proof of residence

The 90-day single entry Non-Imm-O "family" visa and how to obtain a one-year extension of your stay permit based on being married to a Thai wife.

There is the "90-day single entry Non-Imm-O Family visa" option, which you can apply by the e-visa online system before you fly to Thailand.

You must provide a financial proof for both the 90-day visa and later at immigration for the application for a "one-year extension of the temporary stay permit based on being married to a Thai wife."

For the application to the initial visa, you EITHER have at least 400,000 THB (approximately $ 12,000) in a bank account in your sole name. In most countries, the e-visa application requires the upload of three months of account statements

(It is irrelevant for the visa application where the account is located – as long as there is a proof that the account is in your sole name)

However, when applying for the "1-year extension" from out of the 90-days stay permit you get stamped in upon entering Thailand, the 400,000 THB must have been in your Thai bank account for 2 months, and this “seasoning” must be proven with a "bank letter of guarantee" (in Thai: rab roong thanakan).

OR you use the income affidavit of your embassy in Thailand (only if applicable - as many embassies do not issue it any more. These are the embassies of the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada)

In case your embassy issues an income affidavit, you need to provide evidence of an income/pension of at least 40,000 THB (approximately $1200 USD).

For the application to the initial 90-days visa in your home country, you can use your original marriage documents.

However, for the application to the “1-year extension”, Immigration requires a Thai marriage registry printout - the Kor Ror 22 or 2 (whichever applies). This printout must be current, printed freshly by an Amphur office.

This is possible only if your marriage has already officially been acknowledged in Thailand. If you married outside of Thailand and your marriage has not been registered in Thailand, yet, you need to take action. It would require a legalization of your original marriage documents by the Thai embassy in your country, and this has to be co-legalized by the MfA in Bangkok, before you can register your marriage at an Amphur office.

The requirements may vary slightly between every one of the 85 Immigration offices in Thailand, this is why it is recommended to visit them right after you entered and ask for the list of requirements for the "extension of the temporary stay permit based on being married to a Thai wife."

What almost all immigration offices have in common is that they will only serve you if you have been properly registered at your place of accommodation via a TM30 registration.

Immigration normally will issue the "1-year extension of the stay permit" for 4 weeks "under consideration." They will ask for photos of the two of you together in front of your house, with the house number visible, a photo of you in the living room, in the bedroom, etc.

They will ask for a hand-drawn map of the route from your house to the Immigration office, or the Google Maps coordinates.

Some offices require not only the presence of your wife, but also of one witness.

Immigration will pay a visit at your home during these four weeks (with prior notice) and will question your neighbours about whether your marriage is "real."

After this visit, you visit Immigration and collect the stamp with your one-year extension of the temporary stay permit. (EOS)

NOTE: keep the 400,000 THB deposit in your bank account at least until you have gathered up the 1-year Marriage Extension stamp. You are free to spend the deposit, however the 400,000 THB need to be back in your account 2 months prior (some Immigrations ask for 3 months) to your next application for the 1-year extended stay permit.

NOTE: Always purchase a re-entry permit for your EOS.

A single re-entry costs 1000 THB, a multiple re-entry will be 3,800 THB.

The re-entry permit keeps your stay permit valid in case you leave the country. If you leave without a re-entry permit, your EOS will become invalid.

PLEASE use the correct terminology:

Technically spoken, there is no "visa extension", and the 1-year extension is not a “marriage visa”. Immigration does not extend any visa. That's technically not possible.

The use of this wording is improper English. You use the “90-days marriage visa” for entering Thailand, the visa becomes invalid. You will get stamped in for a 90-days stay permit. You then apply for a one-year extension of this stay permit. A stay permit is not a visa.

If married in uk you have to get it personalised by translation as then you go thailand if not done.paper properly your not married in thailand that's it

Do a marriage visa

Will you be working remotely from Thailand? There's only 2 visas that legally allow you to do that. The DTV based on Workation and the LTR Work From Thailand Professional visa

Get a 3 month non 0 while still in uk easy to do on online. Once in Thailand apply for the year extension just need 400k in a bank for 3 months before applying

If you are still working, and have a job that allows working overseas, depending on the size of your employer, salary and qualifications, the LTR work from Thailand might be worth a look. It's a 10 year visa, no income tax while working in Thailand.

Marriage Visa. I'm on my first one and returned to my home country in May. My Visa is good until March 17th. When I get there, my 90 clock will start again and I will be extending it another year. I'm working part time here now in my country since I cannot work there. It was a lot for us to get the Visa but it was our first time doing it. The worst of it is getting all the documents authenticated in my home country (marriage, birth certificates) having them translated there and traveling to theThai ministry of Foreign affairs to file our marriage and to immigration for the extension. Your spouse will be a big help. When You file your marriage in the kingdom.

Apply for the visa in your home country

Authenticate your documents before you go

Have them professionally translated in Thailand

File them with the Thai ministry of foreign affairs

If you want to be in the Thai system, have your spouse add you to her parents house (you will get a national ID) that gets done at the Ampur and looks good when you have a permanent home

When you arrive, open a bank account and deposit 400,000 baht in your name only

Non Imm O visa based on marriage or being 50 or older. The choice is yours.

Probably the simplest and most popular is the non-O based on being over 50. The non-O based on marriage is more problematic when it comes to extending. Take a look on the Thailand Embassy website to choose the best visa for you.