I just got my email from The Thai embassy in Los Angeles and I have been approved for my Non-O marriage visa! I want to thank everyone on this page who helped me with a huge shout out to Brandon Thurkettle! Every single thing he said here has proven to be totally accurate. He was the one who first told me the Non-O marriage would best suit me. So it’s a huge relief to have that out of the way, now we are on the clock. We will be in Thailand by the end of May at the latest and then it’s time to stress out over building our new house! 😎🤪😎🙏🙏🙏🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭. Thanks again everyone and maybe we will bump into you at The Monkey Bar in Korat. Brandon I will definitely buy you some drinks!

Hello everyone. Please forgive me if my questions are too basic. I am marrying a Thai resident in May in Oregon and she is here on a green card. We would like to build a house for us to live in a small town near Nakhon Si Thammaret in the future. Her family lives there and we want to build on her ancestral land. My question is if I’m married to a Thai citizen, how difficult is it to live as a married couple in Thailand as a US citizen? The only advice I’ve received was to get a service to handle my visa where I would send them documents to maintain a visa to live in Thailand. No idea of cost and who does this work. Haven’t tried following up because it will be several years before we go and I imagine things could change there with rules.

Visa advice required. Due to recently diagnosed ill health I am no longer able to retire to Thailand this August. My health problems can only be monitored in the west and if I remain a Jersey, UK resident will be paid for by the state. So for the next couple of years I plan to continue working and visiting Thailand on an exempt at the airport on arrival. My employer will only let me take 2 weeks off at a time so no problem there. However in a couple of years time I plan to take a year out to build a house in Issan with my Thai wife. She already owns one small Thai style house in Thailand. I have heard that you can get a One year visa with a Thai wife to visit Thailand. Is this true? Or would it be better to get a retirement visa and only use it for a year. Once the house is built I plan to spend any thing from 3 months to 6 months in Thailand per year. I gather a 90 day visa ( 60 days plus an extension for 30 days) should be no problem ?) but what if I wanted to stay in Thailand for 6 months (180 days) ? For the rest of the year I plan to return to Jersey UK. Any advice or comments are welcome.