Do you have to live with your Thai wife to get a 'marriage' visa?

[simon43]

No, not a marriage of convenience.  But suppose you live in one region of Thailand (for personal reasons that are not connected with your wife), and your Thai wife is compelled (for the moment) to live in another region of Thailand because her business is located there.

 

Would you still be able to legally obtain a marriage visa?  Do marriages have to be based on you living together and banging each other 3 times a night?

 

Serious question (the first question, not the last!).

[ubonjoe]

You would have to be together when the extension of stay application is done and if a home visit was done.

You are expected to prove your marriage is de jure and de facto.

If you applied for a multiple entry non-o visa based upon marriage there would be no requirement to prove it.

[MARK74]

3 times a night!!?? i knew i married a dud

[Joe Mcseismic]

Simon, are you using your ex-missus (the one you don't like) to get a visa?

[steve187]

as ubon said multi entry visa = no  yearly extension extension = yes

[simon43]

Simon, are you using your ex-missus (the one you don't like) to get a visa?

 

Heavens above, perish the thought!  I'd rather slit my wrists.  But marriage (again) is a viable option for my 3rd ex (who I've known for almost 20 years, lived together before in the UK, always great friends.  She has to stay in Phuket until she sells her hotel, but then she wants to move up to Issan to live with me (I'm moving up to the Mekong from Ranong next month).

 

Just considering all options ????

[RubbaJohnny]

I'm sure if you build each of them a resort you could have a hareem, good luck with it, one of the great virtues of external visas no such intimate details required, always enjoy your contributions and sure a man who can consider 3 marriages won't baulk at number four, who knows there may be a bulk discount on the elite visa

[StevieAus]

7 hours ago, MARK74 said:

3 times a night!!?? i knew i married a dud

Those were the days, memories !!

[Justin Side]

Of course you have to be ling together as Man and Wife.

[Skallywag]

Not sure if it would be legal in Thailand for a marriage visa.  Obviously a home visit would not turn out well unless they gave notice.  Good Luck 

 

New term/acronym I had not heard of from the web:   “living apart together” (abbreviated as LAT), according to the 2000 U.S. census, about three million couples in the United States do it. 

 

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

[Number 6]

Husband and wife must co habitate. Defacto marriage.

 

One or both could routinely take short trips I would suppose.

 

Hence the pics on the bed and in front of wardrobes.

 

This is one of the reasons I expect fake marriages don't exist. Punters could never find a woman that likes them enough to enter into a fraudulent agreement for the little money it would provide.

 

Moreover, getting some flaky bargirl to do this yoy, something would go pear shaped, guaranteed.

 

I think the money a woman would want not to mention opening you to blackmail is prohibitive.

[wobalt]

You are expected to prove your marriage is de jure and de facto.
How did you finally prove it? Only With pics. My wife for 26 years lives most of the year in our house in Europe

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[NanLaew]

4 hours ago, Number 6 said:

Husband and wife must co habitate. Defacto marriage.

 

One or both could routinely take short trips I would suppose.

 

Hence the pics on the bed and in front of wardrobes.

 

This is one of the reasons I expect fake marriages don't exist. Punters could never find a woman that likes them enough to enter into a fraudulent agreement for the little money it would provide.

 

Moreover, getting some flaky bargirl to do this yoy, something would go pear shaped, guaranteed.

 

I think the money a woman would want not to mention opening you to blackmail is prohibitive.

Maybe so, but I have been told that my wardrobes especially are to die for so if need be, getting me a surrogate wife shouldn't be too much of a hardship.

[wobalt]

Husband and wife must co habitate. Defacto marriage.
 Only valid for foreigners ??, but also for Thai???



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[tgeezer]

Anything is possible and the law does not matter because Thailand is a free country where people are reluctant to interfere in other people’s business. 

There is an advertisement on this site for Thai Visa Retiree Services which proves that what I say is true. 

I would say that if you want to, there are ways to do it.