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5 minutes ago, fishtank said:

You do not need photos for a 60 day extension.

Oh, I understood differently. But I was looking pretty good in the photo, damn. Great, thanks for the info. I won't waste any more time taking them or worrying about it. Cheers!

Ah another question. I just took a pic of the wife and I in front of the house and showing the address. It is a selfie however and just shows the house number on the outside wall and our faces, not much more. Does the photo need to show a lot more than that, taken from farther away that shows more of the house in it? This is for the 60 day extension based on Type O marriage. Thank you.

38 minutes ago, natway09 said:

Get an agent to do it 

Yeah maybe, I'm a DIY-folk, however.

51 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Imm is open. Songkran cancelled.

What leniency? You need attend imm prior to any overstay. 

Don't even get your post.

I don't want to go to a crowded immigration office in the middle of a pandemic.

I think I saw on here somewhere that it WAS going to be open but I didn't pay that much attention as I thought I would go in before that time to get a 60 day extension. However, I keep reading the very slow moving reports that some clemency to visa holders in the lurch will be granted. Thus, I think to wait until next week as my visa expires on the 15th. But....that's all fine and good if Immi is open next week.

Thank you!

I'll be going this week me thinks to CM immigration to get the 60 day extension based on marriage. Any current info on TM30 needs at Chiang Mai? I'm not looking forward to having to involve my landlords if it comes to that. They are friendly enough but I have no idea how they will respond if I have to ask for their official documents...ID, tabien baan, etc...

By the way, immigration is next to the airport, correct? I haven't been in years.

6 hours ago, Shoeless Joe said:

 Neither! As it says in the headline, it's an:"Application for extension of stay for marriage Chiang Mai Immigration 02/04/2020".

The TM47 is:"Form for Alien to Notify of Staying Longer than 90 days"

 

Regards,

 

Joe

 

Hi Joe, thanks for the info. It's difficult to keep track of the terminology of all the different methods to stay here. I have a non-O and will be applying for a 60 day extension to visit Thai wife. I would call that an application of stay for marriage. I don't know officially if that's what it's called, however. Hmm, will I have to complete a TM47, I don't know.

Is this for 60 days or 90 days, please? And what is a TM47 for? Thank you.

I guess I mean the 90-day report, yes? Thank you!

Thanks so much, Ubonjoe. So it's just 40k monthly if married and not 65k? I guess I will apply for the 60 day extension before the April 15 expiration of my current 90-day stamp. That gives me 2 months to get transfers in after which I can see how things stand with the virus/rules/etc.... Either I can do a border hop at that time (unlikely I would say) or start doing the 90-day extensions showing the money in the bank. This will mean welcome to the TM30 club, I guess..... Ugh.

This might not be the proper place but it's an add-on to the above about changing rules and the inability to do a border run. So, if indeed I need to change to doing extensions at immigration, at that point I will need to deal with the financial side of things, which heretofore I was able to avoid in Savannakhet and Saigon (no need to show money in the bank or monthly income).

To the point, I have no record of monthly incoming deposits nor do I have 400k in a bank. When do the transfers need to start to be acceptable and valid? My current visa is up in mid-August. I could start doing transfers tomorrow, before the end of the month, and given another 90 day extension at the expiration date of my visa in the middle of August, it would take me to mid November when I would need a new visa. That could give me 9 months of transfers. Would that suffice?

Pardon me if this needs to be moved to a different forum or a separate thread.

Thank you!

Right, I'm not leaving right now. But it will be interesting to see what comes down the pike as things progress.

When I first started doing it this way many years ago, I was always in and out pretty much every 90 days anyhow. So it just became my MO. I didn't even know about extending it at immigration. And I never went there, pretty much. And being in Chiang Mai it's not so hard and I rather like the "day off" from my normal routine to go to Mae Sai and cross over. I read somewhere that many insurance plans don't cover the virus.

Ok, so it's a wait and see situation. That makes sense, I guess. The how world is a wait and see right now, isn't it?

Thank you for your response.

Good afternoon fellow Thailanders.... I am here on a ME O-visa based on marriage to a Thai citizen. Every year, I have been getting a new visa at either Savannakhet or Saigon and leaving the country every 90 days which has been just dandy. A friend of mine is worried I will now have to put 400k in the bank as well as buy health insurance that covers Covid-19 for when the border opens again and I exit the country to renew my stamp and attempt to re-enter (whenever that will be possible is anyone's guess and in the meantime I will do a 60 day extension(s). Is this true about the money and the insurance? I know I've read something about insurance necessary for O-A visas but so far I hadn't seen that anything had changed for O visas. Anyone with info?

Thank you.

22 minutes ago, Toosetinmyways said:

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Wow, what a deal! Cheaper to pay the 20k max overstay fee.

Ubon Joe also says wife is required to go to immigration. Hmmmm.......Well, she might want the chance to get out of the house anyhow and immigration is not far.

20 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

Went to Sisaket immigration with wife this morning. First one there at 8:00. Applying for 60 day extension. Opened 8:30,was done by 9:15, no problems. Usual paperwork,marriage certificate,tabien bann,passport,wife's ID, 1900 baht.

No TM30 or tabien Baan of house owner (or is that your wife?) Thank you.

I appreciate having the confirmation from people more knowledgeable than I. Thank you.

ok well good that narrows the possibilities. As I was typing the question out I started to realize how crazy it sounded and how unlikely so it's just as I suspected. I would certainly hope the gov. would step up and end this nonsense until things settled down. If it's about the money, just let folks pay online or at the post office whatever is needed for an extension. Or even better, make the costs known and one pays either upon final departure or when it becomes feasible to do a renewal or stamp or what have you. Putting everyone at increased risk and causing undue chaos serves nothing and no one, as far as I can tell. In fact, it goes against the gov. decree to stay at home, as many have already noted.

Is it possible to fly anywhere close by right now and turn around and come immediately back on the next returning flight, and by doing so getting a new stamp (for O-visa)? I haven't been keeping up on every twist and turn. I know (believe) all land crossings are out. Unsure if there are still flights anywhere and if so does return entry to Thailand require a medical certificate and/or 14 days of quarantine (self-quarantine would be fine!)? Also true things change by the hour so it would be a rather large gamble....

According to Tmoney's list, I will need rental contract, copy of household registration of current address, copy ID card of house owner, and copy of registration of house owner (tabbien baan, I guess). I have only the rental contract and not the last 3 items. Actually, I'm not sure what "copy of household registration" is...TM30? And I need the last two items to be able to do the TM30, is that not correct? Ugh...

18 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

Your wife and normal TM.7 extension application and copies of passport and marriage documents/fee.  Expect they will want proof of living together such as TM30 report but can normally do at same time I believe (with perhaps a fine for late reporting).  No financial proof is required.

Thank you, lopburi3. Much appreciated. I need to bring my wife with me to immigration?

Hi folks, I've got an O-visa based on marriage and have always simply done a border run every 90 days to get a fresh stamp. That border run is now impossible. Does anyone know if I will be able to use this extension service? My current stamp expires April15.

Thank you.