@Sjo ********

make sure you have a phone number linked to it and you’ll be ok.

For anyone interested, I’ve written extensively about all the changes that are coming to Thailand related to digital money, QR codes, apps, Blockchain and the reason why Thai banks are doing KYC or Know Your Customer among many other topics. They are preparing the groundwork for digital IDs which already started in Thailand.

I use cash wherever I go and as often as I can. It’ll be too late to cry over it when it’s gone.

@Greg **********

you talk like this is my first rodeo. I appreciate that you’re trying to belittle me in some way, as if somehow, this must be my fault, but I don’t know how many times or different ways I can tell you that we were never asked for this updated document in all of the time over many many years in Bangkok. Please do not reply. If you cannot understand this, then I have nothing really further to add.

@Deepak ******

not disagreeing with you about what the immigration officer can ask for. I’m saying in my experience for more than two decades in Bangkok they did not ask for an update to the marriage certificate or the document that accompanies it. I hope that’s clear now. :-)

@Greg **********

maybe for you, but we always supplied both in Bangkok — the certificate and the paper document (don’t know the name) — but the latter was the same every year. Never updated till yesterday. That said, the information contained (which is a declaration of sorts) was still the same after the update yesterday. No change.

@Greg **********

not sure how you’ve come to this conclusion when you have to have a face to face interview with the same woman’s name printed on that rose colored certificate 23 years earlier. You sound like you you’ve been in Thailand, five minutes. Yes it always took the freshly printed marriage registry printout from the Amphur to prove the marriage was still in effect and active the only difference being it did not need to be updated. It was taken on trust. Are you up to speed now? Or would you like me to write bigger letters for you? Smh.

@Deepak ******

on paper I agree with you, but this is the first time in 28 years I’ve been asked these questions and they are not a requirement in Thai law when you apply for an Extension of Stay so they have just been added recently.

@Pertti ************

don’t live in Pattaya, just a neighouring district which is controlled by Pattaya immigration.

@Paul *******

yes and for me, it felt like a police interrogation, and my Thai wife said exactly the same. She felt she was being harassed. Of course, we were being interviewed by a police captain, a female immigration officer so maybe that is her style of interview.