@Koda *********

tell him you will go to Immigration and tell him that the man wants to charge you ฿500 for you and ฿500 for your wife to file the TM 30.

@Lesly ***************

come on you know what he meant. He came in on a visa exemption and now he wants to extend how is that so hard to figure out?

I’m not sure, but I think you have to get your petition for an alien relative I 130 approved before you can schedule your examination. My wife came on I29F, fiancé petition, but I do remember it was approved in the month of December and she went to Bangkok and got her medical exam on December 15. But this was four years ago and then I’m going for memory now but I think we could not schedule her visa interview appointment until she had received her medical examination. I do know that USCIS sucks. They have a bunch of contract workers handling these applications. Check the US embassy requirements for requesting a interview appointment. If all else fails before you come back make an appointment with your local congressman or his representative and ask them to file an inquiry on why it’s taking so long for application to be approved. When my wife was in the US with me, we filed the 485 form for adjustment of status in after 10 months. We couldn’t even get the advanced pro Lee approved. Her mother got sick and she said screw it so we left and went back to Thailandnow she has a tourist visa and that’s what she uses when we go back to the US.

@Carsten ***********

correct I believe if you mark funds for long stay Visa, then Wise sends it directly from their bank to your Thai bank, I’ve done it before and when I update my bank book, it shows an FFT transfer. I believe that stands for foreign fund transfer just guessing on that.

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

I realize you don’t make the rules Brandon I was commenting on the statement you made, “I assume it's so you're not just transferring the same money out and in every month”

@Nick ***********

when transferring money using Wise did you check the box sending for Visa? Because I believe the way it works is when you use Wise they send it to a local bank that they are in partners with and then that bank transfers it to your bank so it shows as a domestic transfer not a foreign transfer, but if you check the box sending for a retirement visa or something of that nature can’t remember the exact words it will go as an FTT transfer so I assume they would then send it directly to your bank, just an assumption on my part, based on the amount of research that I have done

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

wouldn’t that be clearly obvious from his bank book transferring in ฿45,000 and then transferring out ฿45,000 every month?

@Graham *****

check that, I had to pay ฿2000 at Immigration in Phichit, because my wife didn’t believe me that she had to file a TM 30 she thought notifying the local police was sufficient.

@Pete ******

there isn’t any such thing as Visa on arrival for 60 days. Visa on arrival is normally 15 days and I think Ext is 30 days.

@Graham *****

in Hua Hin you have to take the video test if you don’t have a recognized IDP. (ie one from AAA American automobile Association is the only authorized one from the US) many of the IDP‘s that people have are fake and not recognized by the Thai government. But I believe every country has an official issue of an authorized IDP normally, it’s from an automobile association or something of that type.  I showed up with all the documents and what I thought was an international driving permit, but the transport department clerk said it was not recognized by the Thai government, so I had to take the video course and take the test.