Rudyv

34 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Dream on pal, you are living in LA-LA land.

I feel sorry for your bad experience or experiences. But that is not where my question is about.

Is there someone with a real answer to my question?

7 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Rudyv what is the point of a prenup,?

You are in Thailand not the US, if you future wife runs up any debts you are liable, whether or not you have a prenup.

You honestly think any Thai would honour a prenup?

If you think that you are in the wrong country.

At least my girlfriend would. It should scare her off to do so. ????

But besides that, I hear many personal stories from guys who were lucky with a good prenup.

Hello,

Today I married my Thai girlfriend at the Lak Si District Office. One week ago I created a Prenuptial Agreement (prenup) and had it printed out 3 times, one for my wife, one for myself, and one for the district office. It's a 17 page contract in both Thai and English and it was ready to sign. But they didn't accept it because it should be seen/signed by my embassy first. The official at Lak Si didn't even look at the contract, she only asked "is it signed by your embassy?", and my answer was "No".

I never read or hear anything about this before, no one on this forum or on the internet talked about it before that it should be signed by an embassy first. So it was very frustrated for me, and now I don't have a happy feeling about my wedding.

Do some of you have the same experience?

Maybe I can understand that the last page in the contract, about the assets that I have on my bank account in my home country should be checked my by embassy first for whether it's right or not. However it didn't hear or read about this before. And it was OK for me to remove this page from the Prenuptial Agreement, because I know that everything before marriage remains yours and everything after the wedding will be divided equally. But more import for me are all the other pages in the contract, for example that I will not be responsible for loans that she makes without my notice, or rules about our joint bank account, or about children etc.

The guy at the desk, the desk when you enter the building where they check if all your papers are right, so even before you get a number and wait in the queue, he already told us that the prenup should be signed by my embassy first. But he also told us, we can marry now and submit the prenup later, but I don't believe this, because everywhere you read that it should be submit on the same day that you register your marriage.

I just received my 4th METV. The visa sticker has a new design, and the 'Enter before' naming changed to 'Valid until'. Does anyone know if it still has the same meaning? So can you still enter 1 day before the finish date and get 2 extra months (60 days)?

3 minutes ago, Bigdogfarang said:

Good to know - with the here METV you have had are you straight back to backing them i.e. Flying home getting new one and coming straight back or are you staying in your home country for a period of time before re applying ?

I always stay 3 weeks.

Last week I received my 3th METV, and I'm back in Thailand again. I think one of the first, or the first in this topic, at least when I read back.

Just to let you guys know.

This time I will try to stay 8 months, so 2 months extra on the last 'enter before' date. Still a little bit scared that it will not work, and so I don't dare to buy a flight ticket back before that time.

Extra info: Till that time I do a Bangkok - Kuala Lumpur 1 day trip. So fly and 3/4 hours later I fly back, and this every 60 days. Till so far I never had problems doing this.

On 27-1-2017 at 9:50 PM, Bigdogfarang said:

Does anyone have an example of wording used in an employer letter that was successfully accepted for a METV.

This is mine, it has already been accepted 2 times. Print it on official company paper with there logo and address information and a signature of the director.

We hereby declaire that [name] is an active employee since [date] and he will continue his job.

He is working as a [job function] and is responsible for [you tell me]. He will travel as part of his ‘gap year’ as a tourist.

[company name] is [write in one sentence what they do]. 

[name director]
Managing Director

On 6-1-2017 at 9:37 AM, ubonjoe said:

The visa is valid for 6 months from the date of issue. You can do a an entry on the date the visa expires (enter before date on visa) and get another 60 day entry that can be extended for 30 days.

"You can do a an entry on the date the visa expires (enter before date on visa) and get another 60 day entry". You think this or you know this from own experience? Because they told me something else, and than it would mean you have a 8 months visa instead of 6 months.

Off-topic, but maybe interesting for other people, because I don't read much about a third METV yet:

Currently I'm on my second METV, and in April I go back to my home country and come back again at the end of April, with hopefully my third METV. The only question they asked me when I applied for my second METV at the embassy of my country, was if I have work, because they are scared that I will work in Thailand, so they told me to print-out my last 3 salary statements, which I can show to the immigration officer in Thailand, but they didn't ask for it (November 2016).