It’s 90 days already comrade Cartwright 🇹🇷

I believe it’s 60 before and 90 after. That’s from Phuket immigration

Debbie, I’ve just been all through this 8-9 months ago and all I’ll advise you is do it yourselves it’s fairly straightforward and will cost you 1900 baht each. You will be required to open a bank account and Bangkok bank appears to be the most helpful with this for non Thais. Choose the area you want to stay in as that’s the immigration office you will be using. All the offices seem to require different things or at least are stricter on certain things. I’m in Phuket and it was very difficult there. I ended up with 4 visits. The most difficult being to prove your place of residence. I ended up taking my landlord to immigration with their house title deeds as that was the requirement there. Not many will do this for you.

An agent will charge you both a large chunk of money and deposit the 800,000baht for you and remove it next day. It’s a dodgy process to me and if the shit hit the fan in anyway I wonder what protection you’d have. It’s a back door almost corrupt way in. The deposit needs to be in 2 months before application and 3 full months after and then you can draw on the money down to a minimum of 400,000 do not let it fall below else the whole process starts again. The deposit then needs to be topped back up to 800,000 baht 2 months before your next 12 month renewal and so on. Every 90 days you will be required to check into immigration to tell them where you are. If you go to another part of Thailand, on your return , you must report in and let them know you are back. It’s a 500 baht per day fine if you don’t do this. If you leave Thailand you must get a re entry visa before you leave. It’s 1900 for a single or 3,800 for a multiple. Phuket was very strict others may have other advice for their areas. Hope you find this helpful and any questions I’ll try and help from my experiences

Just tell them you’re Russian, you’ll piss through

Please Wayne avoid Pataya it’s bloody awful place. Phuket offers everything for a start. Lively if you want it. Quiet and scenic. Good motorcycling roads to the south. It’s a great place to start. I’m in Karon as a base but you can get to anywhere in Thailand from there. I’m still exploring. I’m near vietnam border as we speak. Did Pattaya earlier this year and will never go back.

My friend used an agent and it only took one week. You will have to prove your funding however for the reasons you’ve given and they make a big thing about how long you’ve been together and prove it with photos together etc. he is Italian so same thing really. Hope this helps

@Paul ******

and free ferry courtesy of RNLI