monkeygirl

Been to Mae Sai twice and it's a dump. Did get haggled by some guys selling tours to see the long-neck hill tribes. Would like to do that this time around. Has anyone gone? Did they slit your throat or rip you off? Anything else worth seeing there? I'd like to make it an overnight trip if it's worthwhile. Hate wasting a whole day's driving.

That's not true, lots of people have dual Thai with AUS or UK or US.

Sorry! Had read that somewhere and can't find it now, but found other stuff to the contrary.

Should be easy. Everyone born in Thailand has the right to citizenship. She needs to be on the house register and show birth certificate to get an ID card. I don't know how you do it if you are not already in Thailand though.

heng i am half/half. good to see other people have dual thai/american. i was worried that the us might not allow it so keeping it hush, hush.

How hard is it for a Brit to get a work permit to look for a job in Thailand if married to a Thai? Looking for IT job, not teaching.

heng! you are spot-on to what i am asking. i mean, if i don't keep extending my visa in the us passport and then go back some day, they are going to wonder where the heck i've been all this time! i know i must exit thailand on the us, or they will think i am overstaying. but i'm going to try to come back in on the thai even if it does not have an exit stamp. we'll see what happens and i'll let you know. are you thai or leuk krueng?

good luck

hey my boyfriend and i flew to brisbane from thailand just specifically to get him a non-imm O visa and they are just a darling embassy! the lady was so sweet and nice and the place was lovely and we had zero problems, it was done in 15 minutes!

Depends on your lifestyle and which part of Thailand. BKK and the south are going to be more expensive. You can live in Chiang Mai comfortably for 30,000, eating out, very few farang meals, and drinking at home, renting modest accommodation and bike, saving money for holidays. Add 15,000 for companion. Probably double for BKK or south.

But there are people who live on 15,000 a month. Don't know how they do it!

I have an "O" visa and it is for retirement or visiting relatives, etc. You must have a work permit if you want to work and I think you cannot apply for one with this type of visa.

Even if you have a "B" visa, you must still apply for a work permit separately.

I'm not going back to the US for a long time, so I'm getting the Thai passport here.

Was hoping to not have to pay for the visa extension and multiple exit/entry stamp as the fees have been raised and it's a lot more than the cost of a Thai passport. Plus then I don't have to check in every 90 days either.

I would think that logically I can leave on the US and come back in on the Thai but my mother seems to think it will be a problem that there is no exit stamp in the Thai passport. Do you think I can get them to stamp exits in both the passports? Seems like a waste of money to get a Thai passport if I have to keep paying for the extension on the visa in the US passport. At least I wouldn't have to pay for the entry/exit stamp though, so expensive!

I am here on a US passport with a 1 year non-immigrant "O" visa, extended for another year because I am also a Thai citizen, but now expiring next month. Now I am getting a Thai passport. What do I use to exit and return to the country?

Can I:

1. Leave on the US passport so that it doesn't look like I am overstaying my visa and return on the Thai so I don't have to get a new visa extension for my US? But then does it look funny because my Thai doesn't have an exit stamp?

2. Leave on the Thai passport and return on it. Will they think I have overstayed on my US then?

3. Not even bother to get a Thai passport because I still have to have a visa in my US? Or can I get both passports stamped exit and come back on the Thai?

4. Any problems re-entering the US if it looks like I've been nowhere in the meantime because I'm stamped out of Thailand?