Why are foreigners in Thailand required to submit fingerprints for a criminal record check before marriage?

To be honest it’s this which is most interesting because they have stated its non immigrant visa O .

Now I’m going through this on an SETV so you can understand it but I thought a non immigrant visa O was a one year visa for which you have shown funds .

“Many groups of foreigners in Thailand, legally in the country on a Non-immigrant Visa-O from some 13 countries have been registering for marriage certificates and family registration in order to wrongfully obtain a marriage visa, be involved in illegal drugs, or conduct other criminal activities,” said the 2017 notice.

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Why not

Marry , do business/ work live happily that it importantly register your marriage

If they are serious, I doubt it will be confined to Phuket.

I think they are finally admitting they have a serious issue of not knowing who's here and granting entrance to those that shouldn't be here. Perhaps recent events in Pattaya and mass arrests in Bangkok have finally tipped the balance. Thailand simply don't like all this bad news all over the world media outlets.

I married my wife over there last year and was not asked for this. Had they done so I would have gladly handed them my Australian Federal Security Clearances. If you have nothing to hide then I don't see any issues.

Seeing as you can get married in any Amphur in the country (not just the one you live in) I see an exponential drop in the number of foreigners getting married in Phuket.

This bit is interesting

However if they are a tourist for example, hasn’t been here very long, there may be further checking into the history of the person.

AFAIK, it's only Phuket that's rolled out this scheme right now.

It'd have swept the inter-web if it was a country wide thing.