Maybe you should keep a low profile with that much cash.

Unless you want to let everyone know your flight and arrival time also. Feel free.

I did it in Myanmar in 2019. They renew passports at all US Consulates.

Just a note to avoid hassle. When you get the new passport and you enter a country you have previously entered with the old passport (Esp. Thailand) make sure you present both passports to the agent because their computer will show a different passport number. They flag that as suspicious because they think sometimes foreigners get new passports to hide how long they have spent in Thailand (that trick used to work but they use databases now)

@Frank *********

You know that because you have done it

@Frank *********

Not common sense. For a new traveller abroad, it is a natural question.

It is a good question for people who have not travelled abroad much.

I concur with other posters that they need to be individual applications.

@Graham ******

If you read back, a lawyer already answered my question ages ago. I pointed something out and he said he would check on it.

Thanks, but I don't need anything from you right now.

@Graham ******

Again, yawn, you are going back to things already discussed.

@Graham ******

You keep going back to things we already discussed. We where talking about if she dies first. We are presuming that he trust his wife.

Btw, are you suggesting she file a false police report?

As a Real Estate Contractor, is that how you normally do business?

@Graham ******

Now you are going into the Way-Back machine of the Conversation. We had already discussed doing this legally under Thai law.

He cannot own land. We are agreed on that. But he can own the house. I was simply asking the question if a legally binding contract, under Thai law, can be drawn up to protect access into his own home?

To legally protect access from exactly what you are describing.

@Graham ******

Well yes, the property is under her name. I believe we were talking about what happens if she dies before him.

We were presuming that he trusts his wife but, in general, I would discourage anyone from buying property in someone else's name.

But the conversation was past that contingency. But, yes, I have had friends of friends who that has happened too.