@Ashanti *******

Slim chance getting a US Embassy to certify your docs. They quit certifying docs that the don't have direct access to (like, they can't log into the database and verify it) some time ago.

@Kim ********

I've gotten a couple from Udon. They've never even asked for papers, just my passport.

"Same address?"

Yes.

"Okay, here you go."

Owning a condo is helpful for one of the docs they'll ask for. If you don't have the right visa though...

@Bent ************

So Pattaya is the capitol of the world's second oldest profession too?🤣

@Jim ******

I'm new around here (this forum, not Thailand), so you haven't heard me myself telling you this before but you will now. I just paged back through my passport and I definitely have a 'non-immigrant visa' stamp, category 'o', with 90 days of validity stamped on it. Which (trigger warning pendants!) I will call a 90 day Non-o visa.

It's from 3 years/extensions ago so maybe things have changed in the interim, but I definitely got it inside the country i.e. *not* a border run. It also has 'เพื่อ [for/for the purpose of] retirement' stamped on it, so maybe that makes it different circumstances from the marriage version, dunno.