Guess that depends on where exactly you apply.. In Buengkan they require non-o or extension from one to make a license. They refuse to make one if you are on turist or exempt.

One time i had only two full pages left, and some room here and there for a stamp.. When i got stamped out of thailand to go to laos and get the last setv in that passport, the IO was friendly enough to put the exit stamp in a middle page where there was room.. I was nervous he would use one of the two free pages, rendering it impossible to get my visa.

Now you are mentioning your passport is full to the brim.. remember the trip to Lao to get a SETV will take up a little more than two whole pages.. one for each visa (Lao and Thai) and some stamps besides for exit and entry

Tony Wilson I have always made sure not to have overstay as I dont want any potential trouble with visa/extension of stay. I have a family here now and the last thing I want is to jeopardize my being here with them! :)

To clarify.. I wrote wrong in the original post.. I am not on a non o visa based on marriage.. But on a one year extension of stay based on marriage, and that has to be renewed in october

Thanks!

Okay.. So it does not matter that the extension of stay is during that time?

Well.. the financial requisite is smaller with the marriage extension, but they do have to check somehow that it is not just a proforma marriage. Hence why they visit and all that. Its hard to be proforma over 50 years old ;)

In my case, we lived in a rented house before, but were planning to move to my wife's house in her family's village after the marriage. The immigration did not care about the rented house, even though we lived there by the time of application for the extension, they wanted to come visit in the village where we would live after, I had only been there on visits before.

We served them lunch there and they wanted to see the village headman. He had to sign some papers. They took some photos of us in front of the house. Took about one hour in all, with no problems. They were nice and friendly the whole time.

Buengkan do too.. Got a shitload and just dodged a "fine" one time I forgot.. They do take weekends and holidays into account though.