@Angelo **********

😎 you are VERY, VERY wrong and I am REALLY worried about you, when you find out that opening a bottle of beer can get you arrested and deported. All it needs is somebody Thai who hates you and who will snitch to the police. You better watch your bavk. You would not be the first one I have seen arrested and deported for ignoring the labour laws. Just avoid learning it for yourself the hard way 😂😂

@Tony *********

There is no “marriage visa” with which you can live in Thailand permanently.

You can apply for a “one-year extended stay permit based on being married to a Thai wife”, and after being issued it, then EVERY year, you need to apply again

Actually, every “single entry visa” becomes invalid when entering Thailand

Entering Thailand, you get stamped in for a 30-days, 60-days, 90-days or 365-days STAY PERMIT, the length is determined by the “visa class” you are using

After you entered, the visa itself is “used” or “invalid” or “void”. Period.

A "visa" allows you to enter Thailand, and only a "stay permit" allows to stay in Thailand. The “admitted until” stamp in your passport is a stay permit, and the wrongly called “marriage visa” or “retirement visa” which are issued by Immigration, actually are stay permits

You can apply for a “single entry 90-days married to a Thai wife Non-Imm-O visa” in your home country, enter Thailand and then, after you have fulfilled some requirements, apply for the "one-year extension of stay permit based on being married to a Thai wife".

Most people call this a "marriage visa", however a "1-year extension" is not a visa any more, it is a STAY PERMIT.

Immigration in their very bad English calls the extended stay permit a "visa extension", but TECHNICALLY, they don't extend any visa - they extend a stay permit.

A "visa" can technically speaking, not get "extended". A visa is meant for a one-time use

For both the application to the initial "visa" and for the application to the "1-year extension of the stay permit", you will need to fulfill a financial proof.

Which is either a deposit of a minimum of 400.000.- THB in a bank account in your sole name, or a proven monthly income of a minimum of 40.000.- THB.

You alternatively can enter Thailand visa-exempt, get stamped in for 60 days, and apply for the 90-days Non-Imm-O visa on Immigration, under slightly different requirements. This process is called “change of visa type” and you can find its different purposes and requirements on an Immigration website when you google for these words

There is no “marriage visa” with which you can live in Thailand permanently.

You can apply for a “one-year extended stay permit based on being married to a Thai wife”, and after being issued it, then EVERY year, you need to apply again

Actually, every “single entry visa” becomes invalid when entering Thailand

Entering Thailand, you get stamped in for a 30-days, 60-days, 90-days or 365-days STAY PERMIT, the length is determined by the “visa class” you are using

After you entered, the visa itself is “used” or “invalid” or “void”. Period.

A "visa" allows you to enter Thailand, and only a "stay permit" allows to stay in Thailand. The “admitted until” stamp in your passport is a stay permit, and the wrongly called “marriage visa” or “retirement visa” which are issued by Immigration, actually are stay permits

You can apply for a “single entry 90-days married to a Thai wife Non-Imm-O visa” in your home country, enter Thailand and then, after you have fulfilled some requirements, apply for the "one-year extension of stay permit based on being married to a Thai wife".

Most people call this a "marriage visa", however a "1-year extension" is not a visa any more, it is a STAY PERMIT.

Immigration in their very bad English calls the extended stay permit a "visa extension", but TECHNICALLY, they don't extend any visa - they extend a stay permit.

A "visa" can technically speaking, not get "extended". A visa is meant for a one-time use

For both the application to the initial "visa" and for the application to the "1-year extension of the stay permit", you will need to fulfill a financial proof.

Which is either a deposit of a minimum of 400.000.- THB in a bank account in your sole name, or a proven monthly income of a minimum of 40.000.- THB.

You alternatively can enter Thailand visa-exempt, get stamped in for 60 days, and apply for the 90-days Non-Imm-O visa on Immigration, under slightly different requirements. This process is called “change of visa type” and you can find its different purposes and requirements on an Immigration website when you google for these words

@Stéfan *******

and

@Keil *****

actually, every single entry visa becomes invalid when entering Thailand 😄😃 A "visa" allows to enter, and only a "stay permit" allows to stay.

@ ************

lo can apply for a 90-days married to a Thai wife Non-Imm-O visa in his home country, enter Thailand and then apply for the "one-year extension of stay permit based on being married to a Thai wife". Most people call this a "marriage visa", however a "1-year extension" is not a visa any more, it is a STAY PERMIT. . . . for both the application to the initial "visa" and for the application to the "1-year extension", he needs to fulfill a financial proof. Whis is either a deposit of a minimum of 400.000.- THB in a bank account in his sole name, or a proven monthly income of a minimum of 40.000.- THB. He alternatively can enter Thailand visa-exempt, gets stamped in for 60 days, and apply for the 90-days Non-Imm-O visa on Immigration, under slightly different requirements

@Arabianhouse *****

if your staff are Thai, they don't need a visa. However YOU as a foreigner need a visa in order to ENTER Thailand. Depending on the visa-type, you will receive a STAY PERMIT. This stay permit can be 30 days, 60 days, 90 days or even one year - depending on the visa type. . . if you intend to work as a chef in your restaurant, you will need some documentation from your company/restaurant, and with these documentation you can apply for a 90-days Non-Imm-B visa in one of Thailand's neighbour countries. Once you enter Thailand with this visa, you need to visit the Labour Department and apply for a work permit so you can hang around in your restaurant (NOTICE: you are NOT allowed to do "hands-on" in your own restaurant, you can just stand there and watch your Thai staff work) Alternatively, you can enter visa-exempt, receive a 60-days stay permit, visit Immigration and apply for the "change of visa type" from an exempt entry to a 90-days Non-imm-B visa. And before the 90 days are over, you apply for the "one-year extension of stay permit based on employment".

@Jens ********

you can buy yourself some time, by applying for the 60-days "family visit" extension that can be had on Immigration once, with a proof of your marriage

@Jens ********

you can't work inside Thailand on a tourist visa or a DTV. You however can get a work permit on a "married extension" out of a 90-days Non-Imm-O family visa. Your first aim should be to accumulate 400.000.- THB, and if you don't have that kind of money, maybe an agent can help (might be costly, though. And it might make you dependent to that agent forever)

@Jens ********

I think what you want to tell us, that you don't have 400.000.- THB in your Thai bank account, in order to apply for another 1-year extension of stay based on being married to a Thai. This makes me wonder how you achieved this extension based on marriage in the recent year. I assume you got it in Savannakhet, where until last year you weren't required to show financials at all. You had one year of time to accumulate 400.000 THB in savings so you can continue getting the "1-year extension based on being married to a Thai wife" . . . . . You said you have a company. Is this company inside Thailand or is it outside of Thailand? In case it is outside of Thailand, does this company not earn you enough to put aside 400.000.- THB ? You do have only limited options

yes, it's true . . . . . Siam Exchange today

@Radost *************************

you are so fulla BS. I have followed you in different FB groups, and 99% of what you post is pure nonsense, is absolute BS. You maybe run a bar in Chiang Mai, but you have no clue about topics which are beyond your reach and occupation. You don't know sh.. about Thailand. You are an internet Troll