Hello folks, thank you for your time.

Reading the site, I think this should work, the question is at the end.

Thai O-visa.

I intend to do it this way, feeling a bit uncofortable with agents opening an account and depositing the money for me.

1. Apply online with bank statements of last 3 months (concatenating them into a single .pdf) showing I have more than 800k THB in my account.

2. Go to Thai, get stamped with that visa (3 months) in my passport (Australian).

3. With condo purchase document (in my and wife name, 2008), go to City Council to get yellow book (wife and daughter have blue books for the same condo).

4. With the yellow book, go to Immigration to get residence document.

5. With all above (plus Thai marriage certificate) go to Bangkok Bank and open an account.

6. Once I have the account, register it with my Japan bank, takes them 2 weeks to do all their checks.

7. Transfer 800K THB into that newly open Thai account.

8. The funds have to season for 2 months.

Question: do I have to sit in Thai and wach the money age in the bank for 2 months?

Purchasing multiple entry, can I leave Thai and come back 2 months later while the original visa is still valid?

Thank you for reading my post and advice you might have for me and other members.

I am planning to return to Bkk in June. I have a Thai wife in Nakhon Sawan. I am currently working in China. I am a UK citizen but have been working in China for more that a year and Thailand prior to that. My questions are:

1) Can I enter Thailand on a 30 visa-exempt and then get a 30-day extension?

2) If I enter Thailand on the 30 visa exemption will I be able to get a visa on the basis of marriage within Thailand?

3) Should I try to get an O-Visa based on marriage before entering? (however my wife has our marriage certificate in Thailand).

Many thanks for your help in advance.