@Radost *************************

This is bullshit! There's no automatic process! Issuing a visa or extending it is always at the discretion of the officer you submit your application to! This applies not only to Thailand but to any country in the world. In fact, the Schengen visa regulations state that submitting correct documentation does not automatically grant you a visa, and even possessing a valid visa doesn't automatically grant you entry into the country; it's always at the discretion of the border officer! You, who boast of knowing everything, what risks would the immigration officer risk if he denied you a visa?

@Spencer ******

Of course you have to pay for 2000 baht of shit, you risk having to separate from your wife! I'd really like to see what he would have done! I'm telling you, either he paid and kept quiet or he didn't pay, they would have denied him the visa and he would have started crying like a little girl, he would have gone to a lawyer, he would have spent more than 100,000 baht and it wouldn't have solved anything! So even if it's unfair, screw you and pay.

@Paul ******

Don't be a moralist. I'd really like to see what you would have done in his place. You would have risked having to leave the place you live and your wife for 2,000 baht of shit! Instead, you would certainly have paid too! Unfortunately, there is no law that protects you and automatically guarantees you a visa if you produce certain documents! Each visa issuance is at the discretion of the immigration officer! So even if it's unfair, it's better to pay.

It's obvious they want to extort money from you. By law, you're not required to pay! But you should pay because they're the ones who decide whether to grant you a visa! There's a rule of life that says when you're the hammer, strike; when you're the anvil, stay put. In this case, you're the anvil and they're the hammer.

@Stuart ********

now I am in Thailand with a tourist visa! Tomorrow I will get married with my girlfriend! I live in udon Thani and I want to apply for marriage visa in vientaine but I can't book an appointment on line! What can i do?

@Peter ******

my favorite months in udon are October and November!

SANOOK

@Nan *********

you don't have to support them!

You must understand that Thais are taught from a young age in schools that they have a duty/obligation to take care of their parents! they do a kind of brainwashing to them! It is a cunning and sneaky move by the Thai government to offload elderly people to their children so that the government does not have to take care of them with social pensions or other types of benefits

@Mohit *********************

i have said isaan is a great place for living not for business