Maestro

The complication is that there are no immigration lawyers in Phuket or elsewhere in Thailand. There may be some lawyers or law firms who claim to be and perhaps really are experiened in dealing with matters related to immigration laws and regulations.

I understand your situation better now. You arrived in Thailand visa-exempt (without a visa) and are now at the point where you apply at your immigration office with the form TM.87 for a non-O visa (non-immigrant visa category O) I don't know who created the list you posted at or for the Nonthaburi immigration office, but it is wrong in many ways. Here is the list of instructions for the application with TM.87 published on the website of the Immigration Bureau: https://www.immigration.go.th/en?page_id=2537 Number 8 in the list applies to you. A request of an immigration office for an English translation of the KR.22 or any other Thai document makes no sense at all. The second paragraph of item 6.2 (in Nonthaburi's list item 6.3) is badly written. What they really want to say is that if a document under 6.1 or 6.2 is neither in Thai nor in English, it must be translated into English etc.

Are you talking about a one-year application for extension of stay with the form TM.7 as per this handbook published on the website of the Bureau of Immigration? https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/19-Public-Handbook-2.18-family-member-of-a-Thai-national.pdf

Can you post a copy of the list of required documents you are referring to? The item 6.2 you mentioned is unheard of for your type of application.

Removed some more off-topic posts.

Removed a troll post.

Removed some more off-topic posts.

Removed some off-topic posts and the replies to them.

I am happy for you that all will be solved now. Enjoy your sojourn and studying the Thai language in Chiang Mai.

The English translation of Clause 2.18 can be confusing and, in fact, had me confused until it was pointed out to me that in the police orders about extensions of stay, 1. "In the case of children" means that if the applicant for the extension is a child, Clause 2.18(4) 2. "In the case of parents" means that if the applicant for the extension is a parent, Clause 2.18(5) The OP qualifies for application under the first paragraph of Clause 2.18(5) which, simplified, reads as follows: "If the applicant is a parent, that parent must maintain an average annual income of no less than 40,000 Baht per month throughout the year or must have deposited funds of no less than 400,000 Baht to cover expenses for one year" Police Order 327_2557 (2014) - extension criteria & conditions en - Siam Translation.pdf No age limit, neither for the child of Thai nationality of whom the applicant is a parent nor for the applicant. Seeing that the OP has been on marriage extensions for years, he already has 400k in the bank and thus easily meets this requirement.

@Vatman How much money is left in your joint account? If you have not already done so, 1. change the PIN code of your ATM card for your joint account immediately; 2. have your wife change the PIN code of her ATM card for your joint account immediately, then destroy her card by cutting it into many small pieces; 3. immediately open a new bank account in your name only and transfer all but 100 Baht from your joint account to your new account. Once you have done all that, come back here to confirm it and you will probable get more specific and practical advice about possibilities to continue getting one-year extensions of stay, for example based on marriage.

I support this suggestion. The pen pushers at the consular section of the US embassy in Bangkok may refuse to talk to you on the phone but they can't hang up on the honorary consul in Chiang Mai.

Removed a troll post.

Removed a troll post.

Those were the days when the embassy in Bangkok had passport blanks in stock and printed the necessary personal details on their premises. Safety concerns and the addition of electronic features put an end to that.

I suspect that the British Passport Office did not quote you 11 weeks, but up to 11 weeks.

Removed a troll post (incomprehensible)

@techhasse Because you are on a retirement extension, your father can change his retirement extension to a dependent extension under clause 2.20 of Police Order 327/2557, wich does not require any proof of finances. Source: Police Order 327_2557 (2014) - extension criteria & conditions en - Siam Translation.pdf

Removed an off-topic post.

Unfortunately, the OP does not seem to know nor describe precisely what he has in his passport but he has made some valiant efforts designed to help us guess what i might be (see below) and I hope that your advice and that of other posters help him to decide how to proceed. ...I have a 90 day checkin, then 1 year university... ...it appears to be some kind of 90 days + 1 year visa... ...update...It is not a "90 day check in" so apologies for that bad wording...It is some sort of 90 day period before I must go to Chiang Mai immigration to get a 12 month university ED visa...it seems no one knows what this 90 day period is about. Some ED visas seem to have them though. Maybe it is a "preliminary test period" or something like that.

Thank you for this clarification. Lesson learnt: "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw" I had the illusion that you wrote something which — in this topic — you did not write.

This topic is now closed.

This is not about something of crucial importance, but the more I see it the more it annoys me. Every time a numbered or bulleted list is created in a post by clicking on the corresponding symbol at the top of the text entry field, the font size gets much smaller and the font colour a much lighter shade of grey, not only when I post, but also in the posts of other members. This is not new; I believe it started with a software upgrade or change a year or two ago. AseanNow one two three alpha bravo charlie I know little to nothing about program coding, but when I look at this post in Source mode I see nothing to indicate a change in character format.

@Hal65 Do you know where your old passport is right now and in what state it is, ie physically invalidated (holes punched in it or a corner cut off) or not? Can you find out by calling the embassy?

There you have it, @Hal65, you should have flown to Bangkok to submit your application for your new passport personally and request to be allowed to hold on to your old passport until the new one arrives. In some civilised countries, apparently including the USA, using this approach will do the trick. Of course, you could also have included this request with the passport application you mailed to the US embassy, but since "they found it" only two weeks after you mailed it, it might have taken at least another two weeks until you got the old passport back, by which time your current permission to stay might already have expired.