@Jack *******

i am saying they have interviewed people and I would wager where you are inside indonesia doesn't factor into it if they do indeed want to interview you

I did NOT say that they interview everyone who applies there

You just trying to be disagreeable or fractious or what?

I would say that the O/P should wait it out, get the visa approved and then BOTH enter on their DTV's 🙂

here's the TDAC website 🙂 you can file one from 3 days before your arrival to thailand down until you actually arrive here (and if you can't manage to file one in that time frame they have kiosks at the airports to fill them out after you land)

Those two things have nothing to do with each other 😮

you need a re-entry permit before you EXIT the country and you need to do a TDAC before you ENTER.

You get a re-entry permit at Suvarnabhumi or Don Mueang Airports , just tell the officer when you stamp out that you need a re-entry permit

They will send you to the counter to buy one

@Jack *******

that you don't believe people are called for interviews is on you 😉

They are indeed interviewed at the Jakarta thai consulate in indonesia and where you are in indonesia doesn't matter to the consulate in the least

AND

as Bob said sometimes the embassies as for additional documents 5 day or so after the application is turned in requesting all pages of the passport including blank pages. <- to see if you went back to thailand rather than wait in the country of the consulate you applied at for the visa to be approved (which is how you're supposed to do it)

until she gets a DTV issued she's not on ANY visa 😕 Whether you applied for her DTV based on being your (under 20) child or not.

Usually Jakarta isn't that bad on 'piggy back' DTV's <- ones gotten for family of primary DTV holders, I'd wait it out. and you should get it in a day or three.

Remember though the 5th is a holiday AND the 12th is as well, so that might affect it

If you come from one of the 90 countries that get in to thailand FREE for 60 days and decide to come back before her visa is approved, she'll get stamped in for 60 days and then if/when she gets approved for the DTV she could bounce out and back to activate the 180 day entry on it

@Dave ***********

correct (y) (marriage or retirement) if you look at the stamp you got (that's good for a year) you'll see it says "extension of stay permitted until" and has a date (of next year)

That's NOT a year visa, and it's not a visa at all, just an extension of the 90 day entry you got FROM your original Non-O visa..

Just wanted to make sure you and the O/P know that an extension isn't a visa, was all 🙂

here's one based on retirement but the stamps are the same

@Peter *********

right but I don't know what they're asking. I tried my passport from the US which starts with an A followed by 8 numbers and it took it fine, then I went back and tried a passport of all alpha keys and it took that too (or let me progress to the second page)

you didn't get any 12 month marriage visa 😮

you got a 90 day Non-O from the thai consulate in your country before you came here

THEN

once you were here and had 30 days or less left on that 90 day entry stamp from the Non-O visa you applied for an in country "yearly extension of stay" <-(it's not a visa) by meeting the documentation and financial requirements at your immigration office.

You got a 30 day under consideration stamp when you applied for that extension and then you went back on that date and got the year extension inked into your passport.

@Martyn *********

and you made sure to CHANGE the expiration date of your extension in the system when you filed this most recent report?

Many people (who use the auto fill especially) don't catch that and they apply with last years expiration date for their extension rather than the expiration of the new year 😮

Gotta make sure these dates are correct

@Paul ******

a lot of people who come in from abroad and restart the 90 day count down get rejected now with this reason