Claus Svensson You wrote in the original poster that you are in Hua Hin and want to get a ”Marriage Visa”. But you inform also later that you run into issues with the relevant embassy which I believe can be the Swedish seeing your name.

1. You apply for a Non-O Visa based on marriage from outside Thailand. When you passing through Immigration when entering Thailand the Visa is cancelled and you instead get a ”Stay Permit of 90-days” stamped into your passport.

2. You can then visit a local immigration office in Thailand when you have less than 30 or 45 days (not knowing about what the Hua Hin local requirements are?) remaining of the 90-days Permit to Stay. And thus get a ”1-Year Extension of Stay (of the Stay Permit)”

Note! That’s if all requirements are meet and there are quite a few such…Some call the 1-year extension of stay incorrectly for a marriage visa. Is not!

The Swedish Embassy in Bangkok did f.y.i. stop to issue certificates from 1 September 2025 for registering marriages to a Thai national when the marriage did take place in Sweden.

As can be seen there are quite a few steps to be done before to travel to Thailand for be able to register the marriage in Thailand. That the marriage is registered in Thailand is required as to get a 1-year extension of stay based on married with a Thai national. And as I remember if just been married it has to be gone more than 60 days before the marriage can be registered also in Thailand.

Many takes help by an agent for the steps in Thailand and to not having to go to Bangkok etc.

I did a 60-day extension based on family visit (Thai wife as was with me) on 21 January at Immigrations in Udon Thani. Before that on same day my wife went to the local Amphur and picked up a fresh Kor Ror 22 marriage registry printout for a cost of 20 Baht as this is one of the documents required when to do a 60-day extension.

However the immigration officer advised quite firmly that he don’t want me to come for apply for 60-day extensions anymore! (I did my previous 60-day extension in March 2025). The immigration officer advised me to do 1-year extensions only in the future.

I had originally planned to apply for a 1-year extension of stay based on that I arrived to Thailand with an Non O E-visa based on married with a Thai women this time. But after reading this and other forums and also talked with people. I have changed my mind and I will next time before travel to Thailand apply for a Non O E-visa based on Retirement instead. Then apply for a 1-year extension based on retirement with + 800.000 Baht on one of my Thai bank accounts.

@Graham *****

Yes. At the previous Visit Thai Family 60 days extensions that I have made. The local immigration did request a copy of my Thai wife blue Tabian Ban (house register book).

The now attached ”general page” of what Immigration requests do corresponds well to what also the local immigration did request related to the previous 60 day extensions that I have made.

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

Thanks! I will also check what the local immigration says when I requests the 60-day family based extension this month. My Thai wife is of course going with me to the local immigration then.

@Ally ***********

Thanks! My wife has only owned the land and house she wants now to sell for a period of little more than 3 years. So it remains almost 2 years until she has been the owner for the required 5 years as to get the lower tax liability. Or she has to change her primary address as in her house book and wait to sell for one year after the change…

As I my self thinks I does not want the house to be sold as it is very nice house and in a good location. Secondly if to be sold anyway it’s better to do it if and when a potentiell buyer shows up as I am aware it’s very difficult to sell properties in Thailand (as it looks to me). The difference as it get in sales tax is a negligible sum as I see it. But…I am not the legal owner and my wife see differently on this than I do…

So I would like my wife to keep her primary address as it is currently (the other house as is located about 600 km away from the house as my wife now wants to sell. With then me also still be registered as the place I stay while in Thailand.

@เดแคลน **********

Thanks! Yes will do the extension as where I/we are staying the majority of the time we are in Thailand. I have already asked the local immigration earlier if I need to re-visit to make a new address reporting if I been staying temporary on other locations within Thailand? The local Immigration reply was that they do not require this. However that I/we need to make a new TM30 address reporting every time that I arrived to my final destination within Thailand within 24 hours.

I did in past (before Covid) do 4-4 weeks or 5-5 weeks on/off swings working offshore. I did for several years enter Thailand with Visa Exempts that then gave Permit to Stay of 30 days. When on the 5-5 weeks rotation as it was working offshore in Australia I got some more than 30 days in Thailand on my leave times so I had to go to the local immigration to do 30 day extensions for 1900 Baht on top. I had at that time never a problem or when entering Thailand or when doing my extensions.

But it was then and things looks quite stricter now and is best to be well prepared with evidence about your work and I read you bring documentation with you to present if questioned.

I had only some issues when to check in on the flights when traveling to Thailand as I was asked quite a few times to present that I had a ticket out of Thailand. The company I worked for paid for my travels and used a travel agency in Australia even when I worked offshore in other countries. I requested the travel agency to book me a real rebook able/fully refundable so called ”Seaman’s Ticket”. These are to my understanding not nowadays cheaper. But have the advantage that it can be changed without any extra costs often as the nature of working on ships or on platforms is as it is. So I had a real booked and paid flight ticket out of Thailand as to present. Even it was some days more than 30 days in Thailand it was always then accepted when checking in flying to Thailand. As it is currently I think It’s a high likability that Immigration will part of questions when entering Thailand with your travel pattern ask for see your departure ticket out if Thailand…

In the position I worked in I could not leave the platform (beside reasons like sickness) until my back to back had arrived onboard with same helicopter as I stepped on a few minutes later to fly ashore to the nearest helicopter airport.

@Greg **********

No problems as my wife owns the house and land and she has a dark blue (house book) she is registered in and the local immigration is close by. I have done this before but has never arrived on a Saturday before.

I am arriving on a Saturday and local immigration is closed on Saturdays and Sundays. So I and my wife that has a house will have to go on Monday for the TM30 registration. But it will be more than 24 hrs after the arrival…And the first TM30 after arrival to Thailand has to be in person. Or is it arrival to the property that sets the 24 hrs counter?

With a Non O Visa you get a 90 day permission of stay in Thailand as stamped into your passport by immigration when you enter Thailand.

You can then by visit a local immigration office to get an 60-day extension based on family basis (Thai wife). I have done so several times myself. You then can stay 90 + 60 days. It is only allowed to do a such 60-day extension one time without leaving Thailand (at least according to the local immigration office I attend).

I recommend that after you have entered Thailand visit the local Immigration office that you intend to go to for either do a 2-Month or 1-Year Extension of stay. Get their list of their specific requirements as it might differ depending on your location in Thailand.

I would guess that you will not stay in a hotel but for example your wife or relatives house in Thailand at your stay.

You need thus within 24 hours after you have arrived to Thailand visit the local immigration office to do a TM30 Address Reporting. Immigration will thus put a receipt into your passport that they will check if and when you come back for do a 60-day or 1-year extension of stay.