One year marriage extension of stay at Huahin Bin

[Epidemiologist Dave]

I visited Huahin immigration today together with my wife and a witness to apply for a one year extension based on marriage to a Thai lady. I have nine previous extensions based on retirement. A very helpful immigration officer checked all our paperwork and everything was in order. However he said he could not process it as we rent our house and a new requirement was a copy of our landlady's house ownership documents as well as a copy of her house blue book and ID card. When asked why he said it was because too many people were renting out property and not paying tax. We then reverted to a retirement extension and the helpful officer chose an exchange rate which gave us the 65,000 baht per month required and gave us the extension.

We asked the officer what would happen if a marriage extension was sent to Bangkok head office for agreement and was denied. The reply was 'you have to leave Thailand'.

I then asked if you were told of this could you immediately apply for an extension based on retirement - assuming you had all the necessary paperwork - and the answer was ' No. You have to leave Thailand and start the visa process all over again.

I would be interested to hear Ubonjoe's comments on this scenario.

[ubonjoe]

It almost seems like the made up a new requirement to make you get an extension based upon retirement. A copy of the owners house book is normally all that is need to prove ownership. I don't recall a case where they wanted a title for the house to prove ownership.

In the very rare case you extension based upon marriage was not approved you would be given 7 days to leave the country. You would not be able to apply for another type of extension since in most cases your permit to stay would of already ended. 

[Epidemiologist Dave]

Thanks Joe.

[glegolo]

But Joe, just to clarify plse.... IF the permit to stay have NOT ended, surely you can change and reapply on the spot for another extension-type?????

 

glegolo

[ubonjoe]

8 minutes ago, glegolo said:

But Joe, just to clarify plse.... IF the permit to stay have NOT ended, surely you can change and reapply on the spot for another extension-type?????

You could if your permit to stay had not ended. In most cases the report back date on the under consideration stamp is after the permit to stay date.

As I wrote the chance of the extension being disapproved would be rare. If there is a problem with the application they would contact the applicant to resolve the problem during the under consideration period.