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@Foreignheight6foot2 - upon reflection I don't think that this will be necessary in your case. While this requirement is explicitly stated for non-O conversions based on retirement, it isn't for conversions based on marriage. Alas I missed the bus for editing my post further!????

It is looking increasingly likely to me in the light of your subsequent comments that the only practical option now open to you is to do a border run before Friday (7th), returning to Thailand with a 30-day visa exemption (reduced from 45 days since 1 April) which you will then need to convert to a single-entry 90-day non-O visa for marriage at your local immigration office. Official requirements are spelt out in the following link:- https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/6.FOR-PROVIDING-SUPPORT-TO-OR-BEING-A-DEPENDANT-OF-A-THAI-CITIZEN-SPOUSE-VISA-NON-O.pdf As I understand 7.2, there won't be a 2-month seasoning requirement for your 400k in the bank in this instance - although you may well be required to prove its foreign origins. But, first and foremost, I would strongly advise you to discuss this whole approach with your local immigration office ASAP (ie tomorrow the 5th at the very absolute latest as the office will be closed on the 6th for Chakri Day).

It is once per visa used to gain entry into Thailand. As in my case this visa could have been used many years ago, with permissions to stay in Thailand being subsequently extended on an annual basis.

What I do is to take along a copy of the letter the bank gave me last year and tell them "Same again, please" ????

Adherence to the official rules is dependent on 3 things:- (1) the particular immigration office with which you deal, (2) the particular officer within that office with whom you deal on a particular occasion, and (3) most crucially, which side of the bed said officer had got out of that morning. ????

Agreed - as I have already stated up thread, Savannakhet would IMHO appear to be the OP's optimal destination of choice in view of his present financial situation. OP - Google "site:aseannow.com savannakhet" to view a number of reports on here from those who have recently obtained non-O visas from the Savannakhet Consulate.

So presumably you (and others in your position needing 12-month statements from Bangkok Bank) need to take particular care to ensure that no transactions (+ or -) hit your account at least during the time it takes Bangkok Bank to produce a 12-month statement, since the latest balance total reported in this statement could otherwise be out of kilter with that reported in the bank account confirmation letter (all the more likely if Kamphaeng Phet are just as insistent on this letter being obtained on the same day as you lodge an extension of stay application with them as their Rayong counterparts, I would have thought), thus giving Kamphaeng Phet in your case yet another excuse for making life difficult for you at annual extension of stay time, presumably!

Does your office not accept consecutive 6-month statements 6 months apart from each other? Mine (Rayong) certainly does for the 40k/65k monthly income method, based on personal experience.

And specifically Savannakhet for a new multi-entry non-O visa, I think - recent report below:-

And not just 1 long queue but possibly up to 4 at peak times: (1) check-in, (2) security, (3) re-entry permit and (4) Immigration, followed by a long trek to a distant departure gate only to be then told that boarding for your flight has closed!????

Which Embassy? May not necessarily be the same as the OP's!

Not necessarily so. The Embassy letter in the OP's case might take the form of a confirmation of monthly income as based on supporting evidence provided by the applicant (as was certainly the case for us Brits before our "beloved" Embassy pulled the plug on their income confirmation service a few years ago).

In your case you might, in practice, only need to provide proof to Immigration in the form of evidence provided to your home country embassy as required to issue their letter. No big deal, I would have thought! In the meantime, we're still awaiting your clarification as to whether it's actually a non-O visa conversion from your local office that you're after, or an annual extension of stay.????

As does Jersey.

Precisely what do you mean by this expression? An application for an annual extension of stay based on marriage? Or for the conversion of a visa-exempt or tourist visa entry into a non-O visa for marriage, for which the official requirements are clearly spelt out in the link below (section 7 is particularly relevant in the context of your specific query)? https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/6.FOR-PROVIDING-SUPPORT-TO-OR-BEING-A-DEPENDANT-OF-A-THAI-CITIZEN-SPOUSE-VISA-NON-O.pdf

Yep, your local office (CW?) might well spot a missed 90-day report when you next need to do business with them for any reason, and slap you with a 2,000 THB fine as a result (although that shouldn't in its own right prove a bar to the success of your fresh extension of stay application based on an original non-B visa in July).

The stark reality is that gender feudalism, whereby the husband is the breadwinner and the wife is the homemaker, is still deeply ingrained in the traditions of Thai society, and the contrasting Immigration requirements placed on male and female non-Thai spouses as regards the need for 40k pcm or 400k pa are based on this premise. Sexist it most certainly is as viewed in the eyes of 21st Century Western society, but unfortunately a fact of life here that we have no choice, in practice, other to accept IMHO.

Since when have the few at the Monastery who apparently need to be one-upped for some obscure reason in your husband's case have had any influence in issuing a certificate of employment for him duly certified by a head of department????

The OP is female! But presumably she could still seek a one-off 60-day extension for the purposes of visiting her Thai husband?

@AmySukwan - link to official Immigration Bureau guidance covering this initial stage of the whole process below:- https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/6.FOR-PROVIDING-SUPPORT-TO-OR-BEING-A-DEPENDANT-OF-A-THAI-CITIZEN-SPOUSE-VISA-NON-O.pdf EDIT: The financial requirements set out in section 7 may well not apply in your case. But your husband will definitely need to be aware of the requirement placed on him in section 8, I think!

Unless the OP's pal is American, Australian or British, an alternative option open to him might be to obtain from his home country embassy in Bangkok a letter confirming minimum monthly income equal to at least 65k.

60 days actually. In any event not applicable in the OP's case, I think, as I distinctly recall him saying on here previously that his wife is Laotian.

Only 3 embassies don't to the best of my knowledge - USA, UK and Australia. That said those 3 do represent a sizeable chunk of the expat population here in LOS, I strongly suspect.

OP - official lowdown on obtaining a non-O visa conversion for retirement:- https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9.FOR-RETIREMENT-PURPOSES-50-YEARS-OLD-NON-O.pdf

OP - following are links to (1) official Immigration Bureau guidance on obtaining non-O visa conversions for retirement: https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9.FOR-RETIREMENT-PURPOSES-50-YEARS-OLD-NON-O.pdf (2) what appears to be official German Embassy guidance on obtaining monthly income confirmation letters should this be of interest to you (unfortunately my grasp of the German language is pretty rusty these days): https://bangkok.diplo.de/blob/1396412/46846f2a57049f6a46d7b52ae984d42a/renten-einkommensbescheinigung-data.pdf