I must say that your request and response just don’t add up.

You don’t need it approved before you fly. You could arrive and enter on the visa waiver. Then when your visa is approved, do a quick border run. You don’t need to stay outside Thailand overnight because the purpose of the border run is to activate your DTV visa.

Sounds good. Plenty of obstacles along the way. My Thai wife and I considered opening a restaurant in our village, but we can see she would earn maybe 500 to 1,000 THB a day after expenses and a 10 hour day. We had a Thai restaurant in North America and we each earned $300 - $500 USD (10,000 - 17,000 THB) per day. We earned a good retirement nest egg and are not even considering working for peanuts in Thailand.

Good question. Hope you get your answer.

@Greg ********

why

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@Wannikea ********

I stayed in Cambodia for 20 minutes. I went to active a visa. Easy

That is what my Thai wife and I do. Non-O visiting family in Thailand. There is no actual category that is marriage visa.

@Joshua *********

that makes me happy that Bangkok bank sent me packin’.

@Hoffman *****

good point, I guess. My post wasn’t a complaint. It’s not that we can’t get an agent, it’s that we won’t.

@Hoffman *****

we can’t use an agent. It would make us feel as if we lost that battle. It’s not the cost of the agent, it’s the principle.