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To get my stepdaughter ( 7 yo) to Netherlands and to apply for a visa my wife had to apply for a passport for her. She got it last October, no problem at all.

Your Majesty, also we, farang in Netherlands and his lovely wife Sumalee, wish you a happy birthday and a long and healthy life.

I live in Holland with my Thai wife, but soon we will stay for a while near Khon Kaen.

I'm looking for some help from someone that can read Dutch.

I worked in Holland a few years ago and have now received a form in Dutch from the TAX office. I don't know if it’s telling me I owe them money or they owe me money. If anyone can help I will scan it and forward it on.

Thanks.

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I have sent to you an email. I am Dutch and live in Holland. Maybe I can help you.

I travelled through Thailand and met some friends who I knew from internet. Then it happened I decided to visit Silk festival in Khon Kaen and met my present wife there. Not easy to get contact but I was lucky.

Then keeping sms and email. And now she lives in Holland with me.

Whilst I believe in regestering marriage myself, I don't think there is paricularly any advantage if you live in Thailand. However in my case I felt it important in that when I die my wife and any children will get up to 100% of my current UK pension if we are still married. An important consideration in order to secure my wife's future. If I were not married the money would go back into the Company pension fund.

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So did I. However I am not married and have just a cohabitation agreement with mij Thai woman, she gets my pension when I die. Also her daughter gets pension until she is 18.

In Holland it is not necessary to marry. Living together for more than 6 months and having a cohabitation agreement is enough to get the man's pension after he died.

They do in other places and it's called a "Civil Ceremony", performed by a "Marriage Celebrant"

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You miss the point - in an marrige in a church in most Euro-countries it's still a legally registered marrige. I.e. the church's registration goes straigtly into the goverments papers (and this, as we all know, affects taxing and so on).

It's not a separation of church and state, it's allowing some to marry outside the church if wanted. Not the same thing.

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In Holland a priest or minister is not allowed to celebrate marriage before a civil marriage.

Wasn't sure it was a theological question - I thought the use of rings predated even the late arrival of Christianity to Denmark. Also despite having officially a high number of members in the Folkekirke (because all birth registration procedures have to take place through the parish church offices), Denmark has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, church attendance records in Europe.It would be interesting if you could display your knowledge and therefore explain why Denmark should have another tradition from e.g. the UK.

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What ever church attendance records, most Danes are still baptized, confirmed, married, and buried in the Danish National Church, and the minister are still the one to putt the rings on the fingers (even that is a new Church ritual). And that has nothing to do with any birth registration procedures.

Wedding on the RIGHT, and engagement on the left, but some do it opposite. Many are very confused, and that may be the main reason for a mix-up and for using Hollywood traditions.

I have no idea why it is different in UK, Thailand, USA, etc. I am just telling about how we do it in Denmark and how I have experienced it in Kingdom.

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The situation in Holland is that the wedding ring is for Catholics on the LEFT hand and for Protestants on the RIGHT hand.

IMHO it has to do with religion. That's why in mainly catholic countries like Belgium, France, Italy the wedding ring is worn LEFT and in mainly protestant countries like Germany, Denmark the wedding ring is worn RIGHT.

In my situation (Dutch, Catholic) I wore my engagement ring RIGHT and after marriage my wedding ring LEFT.

Holland again is the English name the correct name is The Netherlands! America is a Continent and the United States of America are a country within that Continent, it would be like calling Thailand Aisa.

The official name is The Netherlands, Holland is a part of The Netherlands (two provinces: North (Amsterdam) and South (The Hague and Rotterdam).

About 1600/1700 Holland was the important part and sailed all over the world (in China, Japan, the new world, now USA) and form that time Holland is known. Since 1830 The Netherlands exist in the current state.

I've just bought a 1 week ticket from norway to phuket for 24 000 bath.Anyone cheaper? 

Sounds good. I guess its cheaper still from India though.

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i bought two with EVA Air Amsterdam-Bangkok for THB 48.000

Not a very deep question but probably the first one we are being asked in Thailand...

Sorry that many countries were not included due to the max. 20 answers restriction.

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I am from Holland

I keep seeing all these new members. Obviously due to the recent events. But many of these people havent posted at all. So i'm starting this thread so that they can. Come on newbies, say hello! Dont be scared we wont bite. Wolfie might though!

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Hi, I just joined this forum today. My name is Vincci, f/28/Canadian. I've planned to head to Ban Phe - Thailand Feb 12th, soooooooooo hellooooooooooo!

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I see, I joined this forum already two years ago, when I got a relationship with a Thai women

From time to time I visit this site and get good information.

Now I will tell more about myself.

I live in Holland, now with my Thai woman (from Isan). Hope her daughter will come this year to Holland too. In June we hope to visit her family.

No a dowery isn't necessary, but suppose if you have to keep it low.

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I paid 200,000 baht, a lot, but I hear sometimes amounts of 500,000 or even 1,000,000 baht.

Leiden, Holland

George and dr_pat_pong, thanks a lot.

I am a regular visitor here and read many interesting things.

You are on the way to the first lustrum!!

I didn't want to pay at first, but after I saw her parents, I agreed. Nice People. I paid 200,000 baht.

I guess most of these problems with Isarn girls. Has anybody else an opinion about it?