Thread: Is this true?

^ and show the tax receipts, as IMO a simple non imm O will not be enough, even if 10 years done correctly!

The visa, and the extension are two totally different things, not to be confused:

- You can get a 1 year non-o multiple entry visa based on marriage in your home country. All you need to show is your marriage certificate (photo, passport, application form too obviously). You have to leave every 3 months but can do that up to the point where the visa expires. If you enter Thailand just before expiry, you get another 3 months so this is effectively a 15 month visa.

- Once in Thailand you can apply for a marriage based extension where you have to show 400k in the bank or monthly income, plus whatever other things the local officers can come up with - it seems to be random. I have heard they come by to check the house. It can take a while for the extension to be processed - in my case it took 5 months, and I had to go back to immigration every month and stand in line to "check" whether it's already there. It's then valid for 1 year from the time you applied. Extending that again next year is easier, I think you only need to show the money.
But you have to apply for a re-entry permit every time you leave or better still get a multi-re-entry permit. Otherwise you've lost your extension and you need to start all over again.

I am not bothering with the extension at the moment because I leave this place 2x a year anyway, crossing 2 more times is no biggie. I stay here on the Non-O only. The extension is for when you want to stay in Thailand, and not go anywhere for a long while.

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Nice post, very concise.

Originally Posted by nikster

The visa, and the extension are two totally different things, not to be confused:

Amen to that