If you work through the bones of what i just posted.. you should get a reasonable understanding of the process.. but it's worth checking if the Thai Embassy nearest to you in the U.S. is able to offer a translation and certification service.. so you can also get this done before you travel.. they may say it has to be done by (or can only be done by) the MoFA in Thailand.. I'm not sure about this aspect.. but if it's feasible to do it state side it will save you a lot of time and energy attending to it here 👍

If you were married overseas.. meaning not in Thailand.. then the first step is to get a copy of the original marriage certificate certified by the Embassy (or sometimes it's a service performed by the Consulate) of the country where your marriage took place.. for most people that's likely to be their home country.. so you may be able to do this before you leave for Thailand.. however, you could have had a vacation style wedding of course, which would need to involve a foreign Embassy in the process.. but if you are already in Thailand then things are slightly different.. first step, your overseas marriage certificate has to be authenticated by the relevant country Embassy in Bangkok before you can move on to the second step.. which is getting a copy of the original (now already Embassy certified) marriage certificate translated into Thai and getting the translated copy certified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (also in Bangkok) .. only then will you have the correct documents to be able to register your marriage at your local Amphur in Thailand.. which is necessary to obtain a Kor Ror 22 (another certificate) from them.. which is a document you will need to support your non-o married visa application at Immigration.. given the complexities and inconvenience involved in this process I'd say it's probably best to engage an agent who knows the ropes and can expedite this for you.. we are in CM and didn't want to waste our time and energy traveling to Bangkok in person.. so we found an agent that specialises in translation services that could do everything for us and produce the certified marriage documents.. this process took them around 2 weeks from start to finish and we agreed to attend the final document collection at the International Convention Center in CM to reduce the wait by a few days.. otherwise it would have been a 3-week wait.. the fee was just over 5,000 baht in total.. and they threw in a translated copy of my passport for good measure.. which wasn't needed by the Amphur to register the marriage but i guess it might come in useful later.. be aware that your Amphur may try to retain the original certified copies instead of simply taking copies of them for their records.. which is outrageous imo since you may need to use them elsewhere in the future.. and you won't want to have to repeat this exercise and incur further unnecessary expense.. i pushed back hard and told our Amphur they could only keep them if they gave me a legal undertaking to return them if i needed them.. or alternatively, agreed to pay an agent the necessary fee to produce another set for me.. and after deliberation and consultation with superiors they backed down and simply took copies which they had us certify as genuine copies!

@Jon *****

Immigration law makes it encumbent upon a Thai property owner to register any foreigner staying in their property.. so a wife must register her foreign husband as living in the marital home.. and if you go to stay in a hotel in another province say.. the hotel will register you as a guest there.. which overwrites the previous registration at the marital home.. hence upon returning home it is necessary to re-file a tm30 to reconnect the foreigner to said address.. the exception to this would be where you visit family in another province and stay with them.. if they don't bother registering you then the original tm30 has not been disrupted and there will be no action needed upon returning home 😉

@Peter ********

I have a VPN already.. but it doesn't defeat some of the region restricted content on Play Store or the Applestore.. in the same way it works with content on a browser.. even BBC iPlayer can now tell if I'm trying to access it using a vpn.. which never used to be the case a while ago!

This happened to me recently.. it just means that you can access those Thai/Asian apps on Google Play that are restricted if your region is set to Uk.. ie. you can then download them to your phone.. conversely some Uk apps are restricted once you convert to Thailand.. all your existing apps are unaffected and will continue to work including any updates.. it's just new apps that you try to download that could be restricted if they are Uk centric rather than international apps.. the change has had no negative affect on me whatsoever.. though i can now get some local apps that were previously inaccessible 😉

When i returned from an overseas trip earlier in the year.. i made sure i noted the revised date for my next 90-day report.. when the date neared i attempted to do it online (about 5 days early) but it was rejected.. so i ended up going in to the immigration office at Central Festival (CM) to do it in person.. upon questioning the officer about my online experience he informed me that if it was the first report after an overseas trip.. then i could only do it online if i submitted it on the actual date it fell due.. and any attempt to file it early or late would be rejected by the system.. so if you are in this situation it may be worth trying to file it online on the actual due date before making a road trip to immigration.. especially if you live a fair distance away from the nearest reporting centre 😉

@Peter ****

Going from memory.. With BB there is a minimum fee of 200 baht for receiving an inward transfer from overseas.. and a maximum fee of 500 baht.. so this doesn't make any sense to me.. unless your home bank deducted a SWIFT fee from the remittance instead of from your account separately.. but using SWIFT to remit such small amounts into Thailand is not economical regardless of the banks involved.. for those countries that are part of the 'International Promptpay' scheme this is a far better alternative.. since fees are usually rolled into the exchange rate.. which means the recipient gets the sum of money you send.. some will charge the remitter a small fee on activation but again the receiving party is immune.. eg. for an outward transfer to a bank account in another country.. BB will charge 150 baht on top of the sum remitted.. which is far less than the combined fees of the remitting / receiving bank using SWIFT.. and the biggest benefit is the receiving party gets the funds instantly instead of 2-3 working days later.. just sharing some knowledge from recent research into this.. in case it helps someone else 😉

@Mark *******

What you say here has some merit.. but for context I'd also like to know how many of the people that have had problems with BB have a retirement visa as opposed to a marriage visa.. my hunch is that very few of us who are on the latter have had banking issues.. since we are considered less likely to pose a ML risk.. being married to a Thai gives the bank some comfort.. and given that retirees have to evidence a higher deposit they are more likely to use an agent to fudge the financials.. like i said it's just a hunch but it's the historic practices tolerated by BB that has created the problem.. so they are culpable here and should not be freezing accounts without sufficient enquiry imo.. it's also possible some of the account holders affected don't have regular transactions to suggest they are actually living in Thailand.. ie. it is their permanent home.. which would also raise a red flag to the bank!

Also consider your file size.. sometimes there is a size limit and you need to compress the file to get it to upload.. eg. photos taken in 4k mode, HD mode or SD mode will all have different file sizes because of differences in resolution.. so once you've created statements in a single 'file' it may be worth checking this as well 😉

And you must return before the date you've been given to get the extension stamped in your passport.. if you don't your re-entry permit will expire and upon re-entering the country you will be get a 60-day exempt stamp.. effectively cancelling your non-o visa.. requiring you to begin the process all over again.. starting with an application for a new 90-day non-o visa.. it's only a 4-week period and unless it's essential travel it's really ill-advised.. if you get stuck overseas unexpectedly.. eg. through a medical emergency or an aviation anamoly affecting your return flight.. you will have 4 new visa applications to handle.. with everything that entails.. and anyone currently using the income method would have to switch back to the capital method for the financials.. since it won't be processed as an extension.. so you need to factor that risk in to your decision to travel.. however unlikely you may consider it.. unless you are visiting a neighbouring border country i guess.. which would facilitate re-entry on foot if it became necessary.. but for me personally, any risk of prejudicing my visa status is too much risk!