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The logic is sound. I don’t believe they will follow through with it.

No visa exempt “tourist” needs 60 + 30 days.

How many jobs offer 90 days holiday per year?
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@Jo**
you can send them a message on FB messenger. They responded to me in less than 24 hours.

Edit: meant for
@Eric ******
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@Er**
you can even send them messages on FB messenger. I did and they answered within 24 hours.
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@Cr**
they are so slow it’s ridiculous. Good luck
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@Cr**
the K1 is a fiancé visa. Same horror stories as all the ones in this thread. And to be fair the day she went most were denied. But they were doing tourist visas and were not married.

With a legit relationship and proper preparation you will be fine. I know married couples that were denied but in the end it was because they asked her a few questions she couldn’t answer.

Where are you going? She didn’t know.

Why are you doing a tourist visa and not permanent residency? She didn’t know.

Etc etc, I cannot remember the other questions.
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@Cr**
don’t worry. Wife is very different from girlfriend. I did it with my wife and it was a breeze. We did the K1 but that shouldn’t matter.
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DQ?

We just did this for my step-daughter. From the notification that the national visa center sent it to BKK until the appointment was about 6 weeks.
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@Da***
exactly what I came here to say. Poser.
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In 2015 I did the fiancé visa as well. Applied in May. Approved in August and in September we were in Hawaii together.

She’s a citizen now.
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95,000 is INSANITY.

We did the first ones ourselves. Went to Laos for the 90 day to enter on and converted it. Wasn’t hard. But that depends on the office. We were in Ubon. Anywhere outside of BKK or Pattaya I would say do it yourself. The reason I say that is they make it exceedingly difficult in those locations. First renewal was BKK. Seven trips to CW to get it done.

To the point, 95,000 is huge money for a 1900 baht visa and a 1900 baht extension.

Apples and oranges but people that don’t even have the money and get fake bank letters only pay 25K (ish) for retirement extensions.