@Brandon ***********

if you are married to a Thai national, you can skip the permanent residency part entirely, which is the costly part.

@Brandon ***********

nope. Permanent residency will cost a total of around 200K all in. Citizenship application cost 5K. So with all the fees for legalizing documents etc, 10K sounds about right for that.

Look at your license. It will say when it expires exactly. For the bank account as long as there are occasional transactions to or from it, to keep it active, you can keep that as long as you want to.

@Christophe ********

what visa are you on right now?

@Michael *******

when you are already on yearly extension you can change the reason from for example based on marriage to being based on being over 50.

What you cannot do is change the reason for the first year extension. The first one *must* be for the same reason the original 90 day non o was granted.

@Karsten *****

from my experience, if with a thai, you can both use the Thai line at that crossing. Used it many times in the past. Used the Thai line with first Thai GF, later with Thai wife. Also once used it alone as there were 0 queue on that, and many foreigner queueing up, so they sent some to the Thai line.

@Riaan *********

that is not correct. Though it's seems unlikely that OP would fall into those categories, having a non-o or extension thereof based on either marriage to a Thai or being the parent of a half Thai child both allows working too.. Just as an example. There are also various types of smart visa that allows work. Saying the only visa that allows work is a non-b is just not correct.

Best way is for someone to bring it. If that's not possible, avoid DHL and the other couriers. If you use them you will get hit by customs for sure. Just send it with regular tracked and registered mail. I have received several ipads and several laptops this way from Denmark. One at a time. Never an issue. No customs and took about a week each time.

@Tod ********

my extension expires 31 October, and it accepted that I chose 31 December 2024 as checkout date. It's in the system now when I search, and has a green color showing its okay and processed. Strange indeed if it doesn't work the same for all users.

@Tod ********

I actually did, but they do not mention what to do when you don't have a checkout date. And the QA is lacking too, to say the least. Hence why I asked on here.