4 Photos

[greenmember]

Came to Tor Mor Suan Lum in Bangkok today to submit my application for temporary stay TM7. Apart from usual documents, they now require 4 photos of my husband and I. 1 to be in front of the house and house number to be shown in the photo. 3 to be inside the house sitting in the sofa, dining table, etc. They have a change in management. I'll send by EMS to them later as we don't live in BKK.

Queue took 90 minutes. Waited for 17 persons. Fee 1,900 Baht. They stopped for lunch around 12:10pm until 13:00.

[nidge]

I got my visa in October and i had to provide photos then, so it's nothing new. Make sure you brush your hair

Nidge

[rainman]

Great. I called Immigration yesterday morning and asked them to tell me everything they need for my marriage visa renewal. They said absolutely nothing about photos.

[nidge]

Great. I called Immigration yesterday morning and asked them to tell me everything they need for my marriage visa renewal. They said absolutely nothing about photos.

Why would they tell you on the phone? It's much more fun to see your face when they ask for the pics and you don't have them Immigration staff have a boring job, so sometimes they have to make it more interesting!

[sriracha john]

I hope people start drawing the line somewhere before the obligatory bathroom and bedroom photos become a requirement.

[greenmember]

Brushing hairs Some make up maybe?

Does anyone know what they require? In front of the clothes cabinet showing clothes of both husband and wife inside? I had a search before and they require photos like that. No?

We don't have the house number on to our door. Some jobs to do now.

They showed me the sample of another couple. This set was regular.

I saw another set which was under the table glass of other officer. I bet the wife shot the husband in a dining table. Then the husband shot the wife sitting on the bed edge So hilarious.

The previous 3 times when I extended my visa, they didn't ask for photos. Only this time.

[sbk]

greenmember, was this your first extension or a renewal?

[lopburi3]

They had none in there (your) file in other words? There seems to be a push this year to be sure the file contains some photos. The requirement is not new - they asked us five years ago here in Bangkok - reason then was they could avoid house visit by having the photos.

[sbk]

No photos in my file lop. And no request for photos when we did my extension in Samui in November. Although, after reading TV, I insisted that we take some, however nobody asked.

[naka]

Next they will want photos In //the language is English//

Naka.

[greenmember]

sbk and lopburi, I had my visa granted in 2004. Asked for extention every year since then. This was the 4th time I asked for an extension. They never said anything about photos since 2004. That was why I have to laugh.

And, like I posted in other thread and lopburi said I should do, no one said about address reporting every 90 days to me. I just pretend I don't know . Yesterday I walked around & saw a huge notice board in Tor Mor Suan Lum regarding address report.

[greenmember]

They had none in there (your) file in other words? There seems to be a push this year to be sure the file contains some photos. The requirement is not new - they asked us five years ago here in Bangkok - reason then was they could avoid house visit by having the photos.

None in my file since 2004. I hope they don't want 4 photos every year. If they had asked for photos back in 2004, I would have understood.

Rainman, have you never submitted any photos before (except the 4cm x 6cm size of course)?

Naka, I'm still guessing what English word it was

[too true]

Brushing hairs Some make up maybe?

Does anyone know what they require? In front of the clothes cabinet showing clothes of both husband and wife inside? I had a search before and they require photos like that. No?

We don't have the house number on to our door. Some jobs to do now.

They showed me the sample of another couple. This set was regular.

I saw another set which was under the table glass of other officer. I bet the wife shot the husband in a dining table. Then the husband shot the wife sitting on the bed edge So hilarious.

The previous 3 times when I extended my visa, they didn't ask for photos. Only this time.

Hi there. I've been doing extensions since 2003 for my non O Thai hubby visa. Had the same thing happen to me when we went to renew mine last November. We went home and took pictures and got them developed. I figured since I was going to develop some pictures I might as well get some nice family ones done for my own albums. Hubby picks them up next day and goes straight to Suan Plu. He shows the lady where her pictures are and she continues to look through the little album thingy and decides she likes a couple family photos from Ayutthaya. So she took those instead! We also didn't have a number on our door so my husband got a piece of A4 paper and a pink highlighter, wrote the number, and taped it to the door. That was fine for her. And we had to draw a map of where we live. Don't know if we have to give more pictures next year or not.

Just gotta keep jumpin through them hoops

Cheers,

TT

[BigSnake]

Normally take two, but this time I will take all six just in case, Think

[sriracha john]

Brushing hairs Some make up maybe?

Does anyone know what they require? In front of the clothes cabinet showing clothes of both husband and wife inside? I had a search before and they require photos like that. No?

We don't have the house number on to our door. Some jobs to do now.

They showed me the sample of another couple. This set was regular.

I saw another set which was under the table glass of other officer. I bet the wife shot the husband in a dining table. Then the husband shot the wife sitting on the bed edge So hilarious.

The previous 3 times when I extended my visa, they didn't ask for photos. Only this time.

Hi there. I've been doing extensions since 2003 for my non O Thai hubby visa. Had the same thing happen to me when we went to renew mine last November. We went home and took pictures and got them developed. I figured since I was going to develop some pictures I might as well get some nice family ones done for my own albums. Hubby picks them up next day and goes straight to Suan Plu. He shows the lady where her pictures are and she continues to look through the little album thingy and decides she likes a couple family photos from Ayutthaya. So she took those instead! We also didn't have a number on our door so my husband got a piece of A4 paper and a pink highlighter, wrote the number, and taped it to the door. That was fine for her. And we had to draw a map of where we live. Don't know if we have to give more pictures next year or not.

Just gotta keep jumpin through them hoops

Cheers,

TT

Whe she re-posts those onto Facebook, MySpace, etc. etc. and elsewhere on the Internet, she figured they'd probably be more interesting or photogenic.

*Qualifier: Of course I don't know that someone would actually do that... but still, I would be quite uncomfortable sharing personal photos with someone I didn't know well.

Edited February 29, 2008 by sriracha john

[Maestro]

...Does anyone know what they require? In front of the clothes cabinet showing clothes of both husband and wife inside? I had a search before and they require photos like that. No?

It is there all right in the rules, paragraph 7.17(3) of Royal Thai Police Order 606/2549, but a bit cryptic: “In the case of a spouse, the marital relationship shall be de jure (legitimate) and de facto”

The pictures serve to prove that your marriage is also de facto.

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Maestro

[greenmember]

Thank you Maestro for the link.

BigSnake, you're funny .

TT, how do you think if I add the house number in the photo by using the "add text" in ACDSee Pro Photo Manager? We're in the @-century See the sample attached. Imagine it's the photo of front house.

Edited March 1, 2008 by greenmember

[bina]

siricha,

in that case then the israeli immigration could do a whole 'book' for me and anon; i have to bring family photos every single time, and they keep them: with us IN BED, with my kids at home and daughter's army induction (it looks more like a family that way since they are my kids not his) , with friends, with him cooking half naked etc....

but somehow i dont think that anyone is gonna skip a heartbeat from any of them (well, maybe when the family boxer is licking up my hubby's nose .. for someone with a tongue fetish maybe.... ))

we've taken to photoing ourselves on every trip near a sign with the name of the town/tourist site/hiking trail/restaraunt showng up in the picture...

[sriracha john]

siricha,

in that case then the Israeli immigration could do a whole 'book' for me and anon; i have to bring family photos every single time, and they keep them: with us IN BED, with my kids at home and daughter's army induction (it looks more like a family that way since they are my kids not his) , with friends, with him cooking half naked etc....

but somehow i don't think that anyone is gonna skip a heartbeat from any of them (well, maybe when the family boxer is licking up my hubby's nose .. for someone with a tongue fetish maybe.... ))

we've taken to photoing ourselves on every trip near a sign with the name of the town/tourist site/hiking trail/restaurant showing up in the picture...

HOLY MOLIE!... you turned over photos of you and yours in bed to a government entity ?!?!?!

You're more of an exhibitionist then I could ever be...

or more accurately, more trusting.

BTW, I would never sell people's perversions short. You might be amazed at what might appeal to some people. Whilst going down the list of supposedly blocked-by-the-government websites, the list includes everything from Grannie porn in Denmark to..... well, you get the idea.

I would certainly never offer up, by my own volition, any shot other than a straight-on passport-photo-like picture for these at-home portfolios they are demanding... but, to each his own. If it works for you and you're comfortable with it, power to you.

I like my privacy after some untoward past experiences involving ill-intentioned people and the internet. and feel it could happen to anyone.

I think the less any Government knows about any of us, the better. To the minimalist amount as is necessary to satisfy requirements... and with unreasonable requirements being questioned and challenged.

To conclude, I mention these things to you because I very much enjoy and respect your posts... if anything I've written is confrontational to you, it's done only in jest.

Edited March 1, 2008 by sriracha john

[phutoie2]

sbk and lopburi, I had my visa granted in 2004. Asked for extention every year since then. This was the 4th time I asked for an extension. They never said anything about photos since 2004. That was why I have to laugh.

And, like I posted in other thread and lopburi said I should do, no one said about address reporting every 90 days to me. I just pretend I don't know . Yesterday I walked around & saw a huge notice board in Tor Mor Suan Lum regarding address report.

Has one been summoned to pay the fine for failing to report your address ???

[lopburi3]

Many people have been subject to the 2,000 baht fine for failure or late 90 day address reporting. But do not believe anyone has been subject to a track down and summons yet.

[bina]

riracha,OT but...

i live in a country where getting request for showing gov. id card is a common thing, and everything requires this id card, privacy here is nil anyway... just go to a mall in a city five hours away u will meet someone who knows someone who recognizes u.... dont worry we were dressed pajama style!!!

fortunately, like many countries, the right hand never knows what the left hand is doing, or what the right hand is doing to itself, i suspect a lot like thailand in the efficiency level.

bina

[phutoie2]

Many people have been subject to the 2,000 baht fine for failure or late 90 day address reporting. But do not believe anyone has been subject to a track down and summons yet.

I know of some folk who have had telephone calls from immigration telling them to come on down to Suan Plu to pay the fine!. Incorrect paperwork or late reporting, by a year in one case. (Postal applications obviously)

Edited March 2, 2008 by phutoie2

[too true]

Thank you Maestro for the link.

BigSnake, you're funny .

TT, how do you think if I add the house number in the photo by using the "add text" in ACDSee Pro Photo Manager? We're in the @-century See the sample attached. Imagine it's the photo of front house.

I dunno about that, Greenmember. I think it looks really fake, but if they took our highlighter paper sign, who knows? In my own experience, immigration has not really come across as a beacon of modernization. It's quite likely they won't even notice. Just make sure that you add the text to the place where you could really put the number in the picture. We, of course, no longer have that silly sign taped to our door and haven't been hit by lightning yet .

[whopper]

At chiang mai they said not needed when I submitted my extension last month.

[greenmember]

TT, you're funny.

If you think my photo looks fake, I just use a marker instead of sticking a paper up. Looks more "real" then. I told hubby we should submit on the day we come to "hear the result", save them one time of digging file but hubby said they may not approve for the reason "file not complete". Ok, will EMS.

Whopper, are you having a non-immigrant visa for having Thai spouse also?