Transferring from a “tourist visa” which has already been extended for 30 days to non o based on marriage at Samut Prakan immigration.

I arrived early 7:45 waiting for the office to open at 8:30. I was second in the que.

my wife and I then spent an hour with the immigration officer at the desk going through all the relevant paper work.

In addition to the normal paper work they asked my wife for her name change document.

Luckily we had a scanned document on the phone with us and they printed it off for us.

My bank book was updated yesterday but that was not good enough as they wanted it updated on the day of document submittal. A quick motorbike taxi to the nearest bank sorted that out. We went straight back to the immigration officer so didn’t need to go to the back of the line.

The letter from the bank which was made yesterday was sufficient.

Another spanner in the works is we don’t have out children in the tabian ban (that’s another story) wife had to write a letter about that.

I have paid my 2000 and been told to come back in a month for the result.

I didn’t get a stamp in my passport rather a receipt with June 24 stamped on and stapled in my passport.

All in all not a bad experience, as long as you’re patient and smile a lot then everything should go smoothly.