You need your "No impediment to marriage" or whatever it is called where you are cerificate. No divorce papers.

An agency can do that in 2 days (all the translations, officially stamped) they can even bring 2 witneseses when you marry.

My official Thai marriage was at the Sathorn City Council, Bangkok.

Marriage visa: if something tragic happens to your wife (sickness, motor bike accident) you have 72 hours to leave Thailand, leaving the children (if you have them) behing and come back on another visa.

@Malcolm ******

Mine was the original (official marriage certificate) from Bangkok. They accepted Australian "No impedement".

@Malcolm ******

You need a certificate from your Embassy, or your City Council wherever you are as "No marriage impediment" and that you are free to marry.

I got that from the Australian Embassy, back in 2008.

You can not get a bank account in Thai without some visa better than 60 days stamp.

Might, some agencies can open your account, the going rate is 4-5 thosuand THB.

@Joe ******

If you really have strong dedication and attend the classess and do homework (rarely anyone on that visa does that, they hardly show up at the school) you might attain the profficiency to talk to street vendors, nothing serious.

6 months visa is all they need.

Upon renewal, Immigration officers talk to you in Thai only and quickly realize that.

@Joe ******

Daughter speaks, reads, writes Japanese as grade 6. To get Thai to that level, for an adult, it may take years and years, even with dedicated full time courses as foreign goverments send their staff to learn Thai, 6 days x 8 hours a day for a year.

@Joe ******

My daughter (21), a Thai national, her first language was Thai, left Thai as 4.5 years old. A student now in Australia. Raised in Japan, International School, English spoken at home.

She took so far 400 lessons from a professional Thai teacher (15 US$ an hour, online), reading, writing, speaking.

She can barely make a phone call from overseas to Thai.

Stick with yur English.

I knew of one great Irish young man, he was in a job dealing with foreigners. He rented me a great place in BKK. Sukhumwit +, 2007.

He told me, he was employed with that real estate agency to deal with foreigners.

@Simon *****

I was single, with a "Non Impediment" from Australia. The officai marriage Sathorn, Bangkok, City Council , took 15 minutes and the official deed produced and handed over to us. Accepted everywhere.