Rob Browder

In many cases, personnel working a condo-office will handle TM-30s for the condo-owners who rent out their units. The only way to know for certain is to ask them.

If you have the needed documents, you can self-register yourself with the TM-30 system and file the report as a tenant. There is no way to access one filed by a landlord / property-owner, however.

See the "Millgram Experiment" - obeying authority. The same sad (terrifying) result is found in nations with higher and lower average intelligence. Most decisions are made subconsiously, then acted-on with a conscious "justification" created. The messages being pushed matter, because whether us "black-sheep" types see through it or not, we will be run through the same corrals as the non-critical-thinkers. They will even bash us if we don't "follow the leader" with them.

Great, then we don't have an 'aging population' problem, and it's not an issue. Yet "authorities" tell us it is, for some reason. Where "beneath them" is when there is a foreigner willing to do the job for dirt-poor pay. We hear the same bull in the West, yet we did "those jobs" right up to the day the wages were cut over 50% by allowing foreign hiring.

They require a lot of things, unless you use an agent. It is a carrot/stick system.

How much time spent in Thailand in previous years? Any long-stretches of time? Seven weeks out of ~30+ weeks (at your last visit) should not have set them off - those were not long/extended stays - but it did, for some reason. Rejected entry would seem very unlikely with 4 mo away, but can always just pay them off to let you in, like those saying here full-time on visa-exempts do - is what they are really after with all the hassling: https://aseannow.com/topic/1336926-setv-metv-still-around-now-that-visa-exempts-are-now-60-days/?do=findComment&comment=19217493 ... I would guess you would be in the 2000 baht category, based on that post.

This is the document stating one is single, supplied by one's embassy, needed to get married in Thailand @steve187. Some offices ask for this in the hopes you won't have it, so they can avoid the 'hard work' of processing a marriage-based extension - usually only on the 1st extension. I do not recall CW / Bangkok being reported to require this. But, yes, you could get a copy from the amphoe where you got married if you needed it. It is always best to apply as soon as you can, with time for a 2nd attempt if the 1st fails - 30 to 45 days in-advance of your current permitted-stay expiring (depending on the office).

I assume you are in Thailand, and cannot get an appointment at a nearby Thai Consulate for a Non-O Visa? If so, yes, there are border-run companies you can use to exit/re-enter Thailand without issue - these serving the Cambodian and Malaysian borders. I also have not heard any bad-reports from DIY border runs out of Nong-Khai. Some crossings closer to Chiang Mai require an overnight-stay in Laos before returning.

Who encouraged them to have fewer children? Remember how they pushed all the "save the planet" crap on us - now say because we did that, our homelands must be flooded foreigners to "save us"? If there are fewer of us - so what? More land/resources per-each. I wonder why those in nations with dirt-poor wages were not "instructed" to limit their numbers? On the contrary - food and medical-aid were funded by taxing us, to maximize their population growth, as their populations exploded. How Odd, if the goal was "reducing the planet's population," as we were told. And, nevermind all the Thais out in the hinterlands who would like to do the jobs the immigrants are doing, but because they pay wages only immigrants will accept, they opt for a subsistence existence. Others move across the planet to find a job that pays a decent wage - separated from their families - because immigrants are in THEIR country keeping wages low.

If it is an extension based on working, and you are still working for the business (salary received and taxes paid, ongoing), then your permitted-stay is legal until your work-permit ends. You would need to find a new operating-location for the business to renew your work-permit - but that is a matter for the Labor office - not immigration. I would do this ASAP. Immigration could, of course, "inspect" your work situation at any time for compliance, though this is usually done shortly after a new extension. Most importantly, if your work-permit is not renewed, a Non-B based extension would then become invalid when your work-permit ends.

Could always do the 30-days (tr) then the 60-days (wife), before. The 60-days seems to have really rankled some IOs, and this seems like a reaction to that. I wonder if that is why the rollout was delayed so long after the announcement. The core question would be, "Why would the CARE if you stay longer, if legally done?" Yet they are - still taking out their anger on those who got covid extensions. The only answer I can come up with is agents / etc.

Yes, if you want to continue your Thai-SS-Health after your job ends - full coverage for 420 Baht/mo flat-rate. Other reasons also, but for that one, is mission-critical.

I wish I could have just paid 5000 Baht. I spent over that on witnesses and poo-yai-ban, anyway - and took all day twice + waiting 6 months to finally get the head-guy to sign-off on it. They refused envelope-service (a witness asked).

... and the space to put the address was tiny relative to Thai addresses. I used to hand the IO a business-card for my condo building, and they were visibly relieved to have a legible source, which they seemed to input into their system. I would suggest anyone entering have a printed address to show an IO, if asked.

1/2 for a family, is what I wrote. 32.5K/mo? No problem. The 1/3 was for a single person. Edit: "Kind of Life" is the key. What activities are chosen beyond the basics? Does the kid need the latest iPhone to be cool? etc.

I understand that some wealthier people view how other people live in such terms. Many Thais live on a fraction of what I do, but I don't "look down" on them for this. They are happier than most of my compatriots, in fact. Expecting someone to transfer that amount every month is excessive for many who live here, so to assume everyone can is the "blind spot" to which I am referring.

Some visas you can - others you cannot. A Tourist-Visa or DTV can be applied for at many "not passport/resident country" consulates, but not all; some Thai consulates don't let anyone but local-residents apply for any type of visa. When they rolled out the METV, however, they restricted it to "passport/resident country only." I have seen no indication that this policy has been changed.

Where it gets confusing, is that depending on the "visa" one originally used, the "rules" change - what reasons you can use for further extensions, whether insurance is needed, etc. So, yes, only the "permitted stay" is being "extended" - but it is the "permitted stay of visa type X" which is being extended. The old, "used" visa matters - even if it is from years ago. Personally, I prefer the Cambodian system, where one can apply in-country for a "New Visa" at immigration, which is multiple-entry if 6-mo or greater in duration. Selling "re-entry permits" for longer-term "permitted stays" just comes across as "scammy."

I have seen this blind-spot posted before. For "the rest of us," 65K/mo is 2x more than needed to support a family of 4 comfortably in Thailand - and 3x more than needed to support a single "retired" person here comfortably. All spending above that is on luxuries/extras.

As you are still legally married, it is not unusual they require the wife to attend, and you to apply based on being married to her - not based on the Thai child. This is because they view not having a "seasoned" (for 2 months) 400K to be "getting away" with something, and it is not required to season the money for a child-based extension. Of course, a marriage-based extension requires you and the wife living together (de-facto and de-jure). If they are decent about it, and assuming you have the 400K seasoned, I hope they will allow the child-based extension for you - though, I believe that usually requires that the child lives with you.

"No Receipt" money often needed for these. Now, they have changed it to require buying two when one worked before. I am seeing a pattern, but I'm sure it's "just a coincidence."

In my experience, not unusual for a weekend. I had one this year where the first day I could apply was Friday, and got my approval reply the following Monday afternoon.

That's a bargain for the Marriage-based extension, compared to the crap you and your wife can be put through otherwise. I'm not saying this is "good or right," of course. Someone married to a Thai being put through the wringer or extorted, for a meager "1 more year," to live with your wife is disgusting.

Better pay off immigration at the airport with this service: https://aseannow.com/topic/1336926-setv-metv-still-around-now-that-visa-exempts-are-now-60-days/?do=findComment&comment=19217493 Otherwise, best would be to do the Vietnam visit first or after Thailand, then use a Safe Honest Land Border for the 2nd entry. Thailand's capital-airport immigration are documented stamping false-reasons into passports as the "official reason" they denied entry, as punishment for not using their agent partners. Yes, because there is no published rule to follow, so could be denied entry. Is 7 days enough? Is 14? 30? 180? We have no idea what the "guidelines" are, is the problem. Or, rather, Immigration's "trick" to maximize agent-assistance sales.

I keep my Thai SSO Card in my wallet.