@Amornrat *********

we are doing that now

I would avoid Hanoi, we just got refused a second year ED visa in Hanoi 6 weeks ago (but we do have previous visa stamps in our passport). FYI we asked right away if we could apply for a Single Entry Tourist Visa instead and they refused - told us to go back into Thailand on a 30 day stamp and then return to our own country to apply for a visa - even though we told them we had two children on ED visas in Thailand, they didn't want to give us any kind of visa.

@Anton ******

they refused us on drop off day, refused to take our papers- which was better I guess, maybe they had had a lot of complaints

@Greg ******

thanks, yes we have two kids and so we’re going to try for it and see how goes

Tod Daniels thank you so much for both your replies, super helpful. Unfortunately we are Hua Hin for a week on a pre booked trip- but will head to CM Immigration at first opportunity. I am also thinking that CM Immigration will want certified birth certificates even if they agree to Non-O in country and we don’t have those yet, but we’ll start the process to order them from U.K. and see what happens. Thanks again

@Andy ******

wow - we wondered about that but didn’t think it was worth the risk!

@Serge ********

thanks so much, that’s helpful. One of the reasons we are looking at different options for my husband and is that we don’t want to travel together and be rejected at same time, leaving us both away from our kids

Maybe it’s different in different offices around the country? in Chiang Mai you have to do tm30 check in/update after every trip out of country!

Thanks so much!

We are just running into this now - we need a legalised copy of our marriage certificate to extend our Ed visa in November because my husband is following my visa, we are both from UK and got married in UK 22 years ago. Unfortunately we didn't have good information about this when we were home this summer, so are trying to work it out now from Thailand and it's a pain. Henry Durrant I hope you don't mind me asking you about this, since you seem to know... I think I understand the process, but have a couple of questions: 1. You send your original certificate to be legalised - correct? We are actually thinking of ordering a copy of our marriage certificate from the General Registry Office - as it's £9.25 and avoids us having to send our cert from Thailand to UK - but it would still be an official certificate. 2. When you show the legalised certificate to the Immigration office during visa extension, what happens? Do they make a copy, or do they just look and give it back. Obviously if it's your original, you can't give it to keep, but if you make a copy for them, does that copy need to be notarised in any way? Any advice would be much appreciated! And I hope is helpful for other Brits searching for this info. cheers!