judokrab

Or "scrotum blur".

Kasikorn got easier too. No Certificate of Residence required there either.

Why on earth would they do a home visit for a retirement visa?!

SCB is the easiest bank to open an account with. I opened an account with them last week, and they didn't even want to see a Certificate of Residence.

Were they Irish?

Instead of ignoring the problem when the pollution reaches six times the safe level, they will ignore it at seven times the safe level.

One more thing.... cannot use the time on ME to count towards the residency period required to apply for PR or Citizenship ... must be continuous extensions.

Nonsense. For example, when a tourist wants to apply for a non-O visa here (e.g. for retirement or marriage) they have to have a bank account *first*.

You other option is to get a one year (90 days per entry) marriage visa from Savanakhet.

re #1. A border run takes up only half a page ... not two pages. And probably not even that (there is often space on other pages to squeeze in small stamps). re #2, No, you would not have to do another order run after the 30 days had expired. You can get a 30 day extension in-country.

You are right. Then he doesn't have a problem.

No. You do not need a visa (as DrJack54 already explained). You can leave and re-enter, getting a visa-exempt entry stamp. HOWEVER... either with or without a visa, you can only get stamped in up until the expiry date of your passport in any case. The same situation would apply even if your wife co-operated fully: immigration will not give you a one year extension ... they will only give you an extension up until the expiry date of your passport. If you look at it properly, your only problem is that you did not apply for a new passport soon enough (the problem is *not* your wife, and the problem is *not* the number of pages remaining in your passport).

"Special operation"