Marriage Extension PT Yesterday, then today!!

Well, Imm (Pathum T) are up to their old ( and some new) tricks/hurdles.

15th Annual Extension of Marriage "Visa".

Had all papers/photos required ( or so I thought), and copies etc.

3.5 hrs from arriving to finally get the "under consideration" stamp.

Stupid extra forms to fill in (wifey gave some Imm (volunteer?) a few hundred baht to do them for us)...

Questions like :

"how long have you been married??"

to wife - "how old are you?" "how old is your husband"?

etc, etc.

"where are you living?" Hand drawn map already provided and TM30, 90 days reports etc already in the package.

Had to produce old receipt* from 2023 which states that I had confirmed with them my place of abode ( issued last year after filling in a TM28!)!

- totally inappropriate form seeing as we/I had NOT changed address in 16 years.

* luckily I had saved this innocuous(?) slip of blue paper in with all the other Imm junk, having no idea what it was for..

Nearly all the copies of various documents and bank statements/letter were rejected back to me and wifey had to go off to the nearby copy shop and have the whole bunch photocopied again.

(do they have shares/interest in the photocopy shop?

BUT then the final straw today..................

Got a call from them today, they needed copy of her original divorce paper from Thai man from about 20 years ago!......to be sent by email

This she got prior to our being able to marry in 2005.

Amazingly she had kept it and after rummaging through heaps of old papers, found it!!

She queried the IO calling why we had to produce this now as we had NEVER had to show this in the past 15 odd years???

"New procedure" she said.

How many of you expats married to Thai ladies who were previously divorced many years befo,e and still have the papers from the ampure?

The ONLY good thing to come out of this renewal is that this year, for the first time ever ,they do NOT require a home visit !!

Rant over..