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Trying to come to some judgment about whether it makes any sense for me to try to get added to my wife's tabien baan for a house she owns in her original home town, which is NOT where she and I have been renting for the past 12-plus years here in Bangkok -- and whether doing so would create any Thai Immigration grief for me that I don't want or need.

 

The basics -- I've been on annual retirement extensions for many years based on my rented home here in Bangkok, the same and only one I've had ever since I moved to Thailand. The Thai wife, who has a work career here in BKK, and I have been living in our rented BKK home ever since we were married. But several years ago, she entirely on her own (I'm not in any way legally or financially involved) bought a new home in her original home town mainly for her parents and siblings who live there now, but also potentially for her or us in the distant future sometime.

 

Now this month, she's planning to travel back to her hometown to get her name removed from the tabien baan from the old/prior location she and her family used to live in her hometown before we met and married, and get her name added to the tabien baan for her recently purchased house (which for some reason she never bothered to do at the time of her purchase).  So that creates the question -- should I be doing anything in all this to get added via a Yellow Book listing for her new home town property where she's the sole owner?

 

It would be nice to have an official Thai ID document (in the form of a Yellow Book and Pink ID card) that I don't currently have. But I wouldn't want to pursue the Yellow Book route if it meant, for example, that somehow I'd have to start doing my annual retirement extensions there instead of here in Bangkok, or similarly, I wouldn't want to have to start doing my 90-day reporting (when required in person) in her hometown instead of here in Bangkok.

 

But it's not clear to me whether getting a Yellow Book listing based on her house in her hometown would trigger either of those Immigration-related kinds of changes or not?  Anyone have any feel for the answers to those kinds of questions?

 

TIA

 

 

 

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