An update on transferring stamps to new passport for Thai wife extensions at KORAT immigration. Wife must attend, photocopy all pages of old passport and photocopy picture page of new passport. First do new TM30, separate building. It's not possible to do TM30 with new passport online. Then normal building for transfer of stamps. ! I hope this makes sense.

I am going to apply for Thai wife Visa next week in Sakon Nakon. I have been on extension based on retirement for two years and we registered our marriage in Ban Muang last year and I got pink ID card and yellow house book. I also got my drivers licenses. I have the list of documents I need but it does not specify what form I need from Ban Muang is it

Has anyone recently applied for a Non O Thai Wife Visa in Laos, Vietnam or Malaysia and how was your experience regarding document requirements and time taken for approval?

Thank you

Hi guys, I’m in the process of renewing my Married to Thai Wife visa, although my existing ‘Married to Thai Wife’ visa will expire prior to my renewal being fully processed!

How to manage this situation please? Will Immigration understand and allow the process to continue? Or, will they make me exit and re-enter Thailand on a 60 visa? Or, will they ask me to complete an extension of stay whilst my Thai Wife renewal visa is being processed?

Many thanks in advance for your insights

Arrived in Bangkok 11 December

This is not something I dreamed up.

Previous retirement visa but COVID and a death in the family screwed that up. So in

November 2024 Visa exempt with 30 day extention. Left the country for a week and back from Vientiane to get another Visa exempt and left before the 60 days in April 2025. That entry did raise a few eyebrows and required input of a senior IO but nothing was said. That was the only visa run done.

For the record, no over stays or any other issues in 35 odd years. A clean slate as far as I am aware.

On arrival got taken out the queue to the immigration office. Had to fill out a Passenger Information Form and was told I needed a Wife visa. The IO supervisor, firm but polite, wanted to see Baht 20,000 CASH, marriage certificate 35 years married to a Thai, wife ID card and a ticket out of Thailand. I had a genuine reservation to Ho Chi Ming city, thought that might be helpful.

I was given a 60 day visa exempt and TOLD in no uncertain terms to get the correct visa. I doubt if a 30 day extension will be given

On a side note there was another Brit who seemed to have been stopped for visa "irregularities" and told to return to the UK. When he asked if he could buy a ticket to Loas he was told no, go back to the UK.

There were at least 6 others in the office, the one where seniors over 70 can fast track, being interviewed.

So there will be two types people that will read this.

1. Those who think this will not happen to them and continue to think visa exempt is the way to long term stays. Your entitlement will be your undoing.

2. Those that will take on my experience and be prepared. I honestly believed that the ticket to Vietnam saved me from being sent back to the UK.

So why did not get the correct visa before coming. I have been trying to get funds out of a fund run by STM Malta, useless company, for 4 months. They keep changing the goal posts.

Far too many posts thinking this is a joke it is not. Long term stays require a visa.

Hi everyone! I am posting anonymously as my work situation is uncertain and I do not want to share it with colleagues and others who know me.

We are a family of 3 and I am currently on work visa while my partner and child are on dependent visa. We are looking at plan B options as we want to remain in Thailand for another year at the bare minimum. So, I am reaching out to you:

1) if anyone tried the Long-Term Resident Visa (as highly skilled professional) and could share your experience?

2) which visa options you tried in a similar situation.

Any advice would help at this point

Hello everybody 👋

My Thai wife and I plan to visit and stay with my mother in Australia for a week.

Has anyone done this before?

I understand my wife needs a letter from my mother to say she can stay with her to get a visa.

Is a mother in law considered family to do this?

I don’t know whether my mother has to prove other things like her finances if my wife stays at my mother’s house.

I know my wife has to go to Bangkok to the Australian Emabassy and make an appointment.

It’s a bit complicated trying to follow the process on the Australian government website.

Any help would be appreciated.

Myself I have a New Zealand passport so I don’t need a visa.

Thanks in advance 🙏

Alert!: Thai wife visa: I just extended it, with, as usual, the 400k on my bank account. Bangkok Bank says they will block it for 6 months! Indeed, I see I cannot use the 400k! But I read nothing about this new rule in the immigration website! Any idea? Thanks

Hi, thanks for letting me join. I arrived on the 60 day exemption visa last week. I'm married to a Thai citizen so therefore I can apply for the Thai wife non o visa. I have been told that I need to get a 90 day non immigrant o visa first before I can apply for the wife visa. Can I apply for this visa at a Thia consulate in a surrounding country. If so what country would be the best to do this.

I will extend my non-immigrant O (Thai wife) visa next week, but in a different province.

As far as I remember it takes a while until I receive the visa. Can I still leave Thailand after the application documents have been handed over to the immigration, as I have to go back to Europe for 2 weeks? I'm asking because they'll probably come to do a home visit...