You also need to watch out for ‘gotchas’, like when you’re on a marriage visa. The visa expires on a certain date, so you go get an extension … that extension is a temporary 30 day extension as they verify your marriage ‘qualifications’ … they give you a date, (about 30 days from the time you applied) to return to the immigration office to get your 1 year extension … the tricky part is that the 90 day report is from the date you put in your extension documentation, not 30 days later when you go back to see them to stamp your extension into your passport (I made that mistake the first extention and was 30 days late on the 90 day report … no big deal, I just paired the 2L baht fine and was on my way)

Possibly, or you may just not be used to the Thai way of describing people. They don't mess around with politically correct ways of describing you; if you're fat, then they describe you as fat, if you're Black, then you'll get described as Black; if you're not conventionally 'good looking', they will call you ugly ... It's not a criticism, it's a description, minus the political correctness.

Something you need to get used to ... They aren't 'judging' you, they are honestly describing you.

@Per **********

same for me as a Canadian.

I came to Thailand on a tourist visa in 2020 to visit my girlfriend, got locked down for Covid for a year. Went back to Canada for 3 months, returned to Thailand April 2021 (got a 90 day visa tourist visa instead of using my ‘exempt’ privilege mistakenly believing a 90 day visa meant I could stay for 90 days instead of ‘use it within 90 days,) got married and converted to non-O marriage with no issue (other than the huge pile of paperwork as compared to a retirement non-O)

This was still during the ‘emergency powers’ period when immigration was not as strict as normal, so ‘your mileage may vary’ … significantly.

Get a good visa agent or lawyer would be my advice. A marriage visa is usually one of the more ‘complicated’ of the visa types to get … I used an agent and when I saw the stack of paperwork that I eventually had to sign (30 or 45 minutes of doing nothing but signing & initialing document after document!!) I was glad I did.

@Bobby ********

no issue if you’re only a few weeks over. After 1 week you can’t do it online & have to show up in person (with 2K baht cash) and manually fill in the forms.

Can’t speak to several months missing your 90 day report, but a few weeks should be a ‘routine paperwork’ situation. (I missed by a month last year and there was no issue … the officer even filled in my form while I scooted across the street to the ATM for 2K baht)

Does that price include the cost of the elite visa (which I assume is how you can stay a year?)

@Jack ***************

it’s usually not an issue if your overstay is at the airport as you are leaving, you pay the overstay fine and from what I hear that’s usually the only ‘issue’ … if on the other hand you are stopped by some authority and they find out you are on overstay … that could be much more serious.

No set process either way, but the .01% chance goes way up closer to 99.01% in the wrong circumstances.

I wouldn’t chance it, but you do you.

Depending on the circumstances. In my case my wife was Thai so I didn't need an interpreter for the license, but I was also a widower which required that I get a notorized 'free to marry' certificate, which did require the documents to prove I was single (late wife's death certificate) to be translated to Thai.

@Diana *******

looks like Portuguese citizens are in the 'visa exempt' class, so for a 30 day visit (might be 45 days now, not sure if that's still in effect, but they'll give you a stamp good until the date you have on your return ticket) all you need is a valid passport (at least 60 days before expiration) and a return ticket (be prepared to give the address of where you will be staying as well)