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What steps should I take to change my wife's surname in Thailand after obtaining a US Permanent Resident card via K1 visa?

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2 years ago

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What are some alternatives to Wise for transferring money from the USA to a Thai bank?

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@Shane *******

just double checked, even with letting the home bank do the conversion, I was coming out a bit ahead transferring the money even with the fees refunded, but I will definitely double check the numbers when I’m changing within Thailand. Passing the info on to a friend arriving in the kingdom tomorrow as well.

2 years ago

What are some alternatives to Wise for transferring money from the USA to a Thai bank?

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@Shane *******

good to know. Was able to get a Thai bank account set up this trip so it’s moot at this point, but I’ll pass that on to friends that still use other methods.

2 years ago

What are some alternatives to Wise for transferring money from the USA to a Thai bank?

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@Shane *******

rates at the ATM from usd were between 1 and 2 baht to the dollar below what I was getting from wise, depending which institutions I was dealing with, wise was consistently beating the rates at the atm and the money changer when I was there.

2 years ago

What are some alternatives to Wise for transferring money from the USA to a Thai bank?

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@Jim **********

I had the same thing happening for a few days it wouldn’t let me do more than ~500 usc equivalent, but this was just after i got back from Thailand and had done more transfers than usual. It went back to normal a day or two later.

2 years ago

What steps should I take to change my wife's surname in Thailand after obtaining a US Permanent Resident card via K1 visa?

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@Kool ******

probably a risk, since all interaction is online. Will have to work with the local ones. Thank you for all your help and advice.

2 years ago

What steps should I take to change my wife's surname in Thailand after obtaining a US Permanent Resident card via K1 visa?

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@Kool ******

I have dealt with a translation service for all the Thai to English documents for USCIS and DHS, I’m wondering if they would be acceptable for the English to Thai translation as well

2 years ago

What steps should I take to change my wife's surname in Thailand after obtaining a US Permanent Resident card via K1 visa?

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@Kool ******

thank you! I will run through all that with the wife 🙂

2 years ago

What steps should I take to change my wife's surname in Thailand after obtaining a US Permanent Resident card via K1 visa?

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@Gray *****

unless it’s based on marriage in a foreign country apparently. It’s probably easier for her to just choose new surname that happens to be the same as mine, but that probably doesn’t help with the marriage registration

2 years ago

What steps should I take to change my wife's surname in Thailand after obtaining a US Permanent Resident card via K1 visa?

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@Kool ******

unfortunately my job doesn’t give me much flexibility in that regard, we are going to do what we can, I think our biggest obstacle is the possibility of it taking 4 days to get a translation done that they will accept. If we can get that done same day, we stand a better chance

2 years ago

What steps should I take to change my wife's surname in Thailand after obtaining a US Permanent Resident card via K1 visa?

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@Kathalyn ******

On the Thai side, she is. But I have to plan the travel to do it. Teamwork 😉

2 years ago