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On ‎9‎/‎18‎/‎2016 at 11:24 PM, ubonjoe said:

A non-o visa is meant to be for you to visit your wife not live with her.

Not sure how immigration would find out you are not staying with her or what they could even do about it.

It would be different if it was an extension of stay based upon marriage though.

On ‎9‎/‎18‎/‎2016 at 11:24 PM, ubonjoe said:

 

to accompany your wife that is what that visa is meant for .not live in this country some place alone that is not accompanying .

A couple is supposed to live together and not separately .Asking for a non-o in this particular situation is asking for trouble .If immigration finds out about this you can forget about applying for a retirement visa in the future .

It helps greatly with our informed responses and recommendations if you tell us the location (name) of the Immigration office that is suddenly making your extension filing a big issue.

Thanks for the reply , let's say it is some immigration office in the south of Thailand .I fear even more trouble if they find out who I am .They might say it is defaming them .What is wanna know is any people with similar complaints and what they did to stop that sort of behavior .

I am wondering to be the only one having experienced what might be abuse of power when applying for a non-O visa based on marriage to a Thai national .I ve been here over 10 years .

I have been asked to

Make a new copies of a documents while the copies handed in were of top quality .

Complete and sign a questionnaire , one of the questions was ** how many times a week I had sex with my wife ** .

Get an additional company stamp on the usual up to date bank statement I had been giving them for years .

Have a fixed account bank book updated that had been already updated ( the book that goes with the bank statement ) .

Hand over my old passports dating back 10-15 years .

A week after my paperwork had been accepted by Thai immigration receiving a phone call from them telling me I had withdrawed

the 400 k while it was obvious that the book had been updated by the bank's computer with a code stating it was a pay of interest .

To bring some neighbour from the area where I live acting as a witness to confirm the residential address I had given Thai immigration was correct .

In recent years that has never been necesary

Weeks after my paperwork had been accepted by Thai immigration receiving a phone call from them telling me that my original marriage certificate , which already had been translated into Thai and accepted 10 years ago , was not suddenly valid anymore .Now I had to hand in a Thai marriage certificate .

Having to make new photos of I and my wife standing in front of the house because my Thai son also had to be in the photo .

Some of the above almost got me in trouble almost having to leave Thailand in order to meet visa requirements since Thai immigration did not tell me immediately .

Are there any among you people having experienced trouble with Thai immigration similar to my troubles ? Has any among you ever hired a lawyer to get things done the right way when Thai immigration makes unnecessary mistakes where the applicant of a non-o visa is expected to suffer the consequences ?Any advice welcome .It is always a question of what Thai immigration comes up with this time for me when I have to renew my visa .

Not that long ago I had to go back 5 ( five ) times in order to get my visa .