bobl

Answering my own question since after sifting through the available information, 99% of which relates to getting married not already being married, I went down the rabbit hole of bureaucracy on gov dot uk to eventually find the answer. For anyone else getting married overseas then expecting to legalise it here when you arrive, it's easy but requires specific steps *before* you enter Thailand. In UK 1. Have your marriage certificate and passport copy apostled in the UK 2. Have the Royal Thai Embassy in the UK 'certify' the apostled documents. In Thailand 3. Have the documents translated to Thai by a certified service 4. Have MFA check and legalise them You can now take the (by my count) quadruple-certified document to the ampheur to register the marriage and obtain change of name etc.

That would be 'who are', not who is. Seems your observations on intellect may be projection.

British citizen (m) Thai citizen (f). We finally got round to getting married, while she was last in the UK on a standard visitor visa (we required Home Office permission because she wasn't on a fiancée visa but that wasn't a problem). So far so good. We're legally married in the UK at least. Now we have come to Thailand, and she wants to register the marriage here. Everyone we've spoken to so far is giving us different information as to how this is achieved - most seem to think it's the same procedure as if we we're trying to get married in Thailand (including needing a 'single' certificate which of course is impossible because I'm no longer single). All we are trying to do is register, in Thailand, the fact that we are already married. I believe we only need a translated to Thai copy of the UK wedding certificate with some kind of stamp on it, and have been advised to visit the British Council in Chiang Mai (although I'm fairly sure they meant to say British Consul). Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. confused dot com