Divorce Thai Wife In Uk. Help Please!

[ThaiVisaExpress]

One thing here is she on Further Leave to Remain ?

Write to the UK/BA and advise them you are no longer in a subsisting relationship as one of my clients did recently.

Your spouse cannot get another visa without you quite simple.

After filling in various forms they wrote to her asking her to leave the country however he then changed his mind. And he then wrote to the UK/BA and advised them of this, however they made her leave and canceled her visa and then made her re apply for settlement again !

So just ensure this is the route you wish to take if you decide to go down this avenue.

Now moving onto the divorce just turn up at any recognized Amphur that deals in divorces my friend has just done this without his marriage certificate and they sent him across the road to the police station and they issued him with some papers.

He was then divorced some 15 minutes later this is the easiest and most simple route to take.

After taking advice from a UK solicitor and parting with alot of money he could not believe how simple this was to do he is now a very relieved man.

Edited January 14, 2010 by ThaiVisaExpress

[7by7]

Unhelpful rant and response to same deleted.

Disagree with other posters by all means; but no name calling, please.

[Colabamumbai]

Thai embassy has nothing to do with this. Talk to your Embassy. Get a divorce uncontested, everyone advertises to do this for about $300.00 in Canada. Or you can file the papers yourself in the UK and save your money.

[lioness]

Where did you marry, in Thailand or the UK?

A friend of mine married in the UK, now they are both in Thailand and she wants a divorce, he sought legal advice and has been told that at least one of them has to be in the UK for it to be recognised over tere.

[Bagwan]

Unhelpful rant and response to same deleted.

Disagree with other posters by all means; but no name calling, please.

That is a pity - from my personal point of view. I have just typed out a translation of the original rant with suitable and tasteful comments on the writer's command of the English language and included suggestions regarding the tone of any messages that he may wish to convey to the readers of this board. What a waste of electrons!

I find that invective, or shouting, at people rarely obtains the desired result; A quiet word in the ear or subtle ridicule very often will. I suggest that deleting a post by somebody whose level of obtuseness is above the norm, and level of sensitivity below it, would have much the same effect as water off a duck's back.

This post should not be construed as a willingness, in this instance at least, to fight City Hall.

[Bagwan]

Can anybody advise me regarding the advantages from being married? ASAIK having a designated 'significant other' is presently accepted in the UK and pension rights and other goodies accrue to them, save in the instance of same sex relationships. I know nothing of the laws regarding relationships based on bestiality or necrophilia. Since nearly half of UK marriages end in divorce (more trouble and expense), it begs the question, 'Why get married in the first place?' Could expensive weddings be a First World version of 'face' ? It seems to me that the major beneficiaries of such are the bride and her mother - hereinafter called the governing interest. Why is it known as HER day? Why do the hard of thinking consider it necessary to swan off to some tropical island, that presumably they couldn't point out on a map, to get married on a beach? Why spend a thousand or so on a virginal white frock that will be worn only once? (Virginal 5555555555)

In the case under discussion, why do anything? Why not make a decision to do nothing, except of course to notify the Immigration authorities that the relationship is over - and to all intents and purposes, so is the marriage? In a matter of weeks the lady will be 7000 miles away, extremely difficult for her to return, unable to afford UK legal advice and unable to get a divorce from her own efforts herself should she want one. It used to be the case that a Thai lady couldn't get a divorce without her husbands consent although I am aware that moves were being made to address this obvious injustice. I do not know if anything actually happened, this being Thailand, I expect not.

By not divorcing what are the chances of claiming his wife's unused tax allowances? Just a thought, maybe it is not kosher to do so. Why not stay married? Think of the advantages to this. I suggest that most UK ladies that fancy a bit of the other don't give a fig whether a guy has a partner or not so that your sex life isn't an unduly troubled one - and your partner in passion won't have her hair in curlers. By staying married one has a natural defence against gold hunters with a view to having HER day. A lady that really wants YOU, rather than her (and her mother) being the centre of attraction for a week or so and getting a photograph in the local newspaper, would be quite content to live under the same roof without all the BS. If (when?) the wife comes to her senses and realises that she has lost game, set and match you can get a divorce on your terms. Wait a few years, and a genuine lady would be happy do so I suggest, and desertion kicks in. You should by then have a decent idea of what life would be like with the new edition.

Many of the people who come here with their problems might be better served by using the services of their local library, assuming that whatever country they are in has such a facility. In the reference section of UK libraries a wealth of accurate information is available and in most cases you can avoid shelling out with the hard earned to the legal sharks. The Consumers Association publications are particularly helpful and it is a poor library that doesn't have copies of such. Google will also point anybody in the right direction although I would counsel being wary of Wikipedia. Places such as this are inhabited by non-professionals most of them with their own foibles, prejudices and agendas - and I include myself in that number. I suggest that it would be fanciful to consider that most of what appears on this board to be anything better than that a conversation with acquaintances in a pub.

[paully]

Where did you marry, in Thailand or the UK?

A friend of mine married in the UK, now they are both in Thailand and she wants a divorce, he sought legal advice and has been told that at least one of them has to be in the UK for it to be recognised over tere.

It doesn't matter where you were married, a legal marriage anywhere in the world is a valid marriage in UK law.

For the purpose of obtaining a divorce in the UK, yes, one of the parties has to be resident within the UK jurisdiction and for the British court to accept and issue the divorce petition. I expect that's what the lawyer meant.

Edited January 15, 2010 by paully

[paully]

In the case under discussion, why do anything? Why not make a decision to do nothing

But - what if the OP wants to get married again in the UK in the future? He'll need more than a Thai Embassy divorce job.

[Bagwan]

In the case under discussion, why do anything? Why not make a decision to do nothing

But - what if the OP wants to get married again in the UK in the future? He'll need more than a Thai Embassy divorce job.

Why get married? What purpose does it serve? How does a piece of paper add to the fabric of a partnership? Who are the beneficiaries? Florists, church organists, lawyers - the list goes on for a bit.

Anybody who has sat in the Royal Courts of Justice and witnessed the proceedings of a contested divorce action cannot but be influenced. One has to wonder whether the two parties ever really cared for each other in the first place.

Second marriages - a triumph of hope over experience.

[7by7]

I suggest that deleting a post by somebody whose level of obtuseness is above the norm, and level of sensitivity below it, would have much the same effect as water off a duck's back.

This post should not be construed as a willingness, in this instance at least, to fight City Hall.

Discussion of moderation is not normally suitable for the open forum and is certainly not relevant to this topic; but as your post has been there for all to read for some time, I will on this occasion comment.

This is a one off and is most definitely not setting a precedent.

The post was deleted as it's tone could easily have dragged this topic down into the mire of a slanging match. That's all.

Whether this will cause the person concerned to moderate his tone in future, we will have to wait and see.

That is all I have to say on the matter, and any further discussion of this point will be deleted.

[7by7]

Why get married? What purpose does it serve? How does a piece of paper add to the fabric of a partnership?

Whether to marry or not is, of course, a personal choice.

Take as an example some friends of ours. They are a gay couple, one English, the other Thai. They had been living together in Thailand for some considerable time before obtaining an unmarried partner's visa for the Thai partner so they could come to live together in the UK. He has now been here long enough to not only obtain ILR but British citizenship as well.

Since his naturalisation they have entered into a civil partnership. Why? Because they love each other and wanted to make the commitment to each other that doing so would achieve.

Many couples, hetero or gay, want to make the same commitment to each other.

Also when a visa national and a UK citizen/resident are in love and wish to live together in the UK, then if they are already married, or intend to do so once in the UK, the length of the relationship is largely irrelevant; as long as they have met and can show that the relationship is genuine.

However, if they are not married then they will need to apply for an unmarried partners visa; the basic requirement of which is that they must show that they have been living together in a relationship akin to marriage for at least the last two years. Difficult to do if one is in the UK and the other in Thailand!

The problems come when a couple rush into a marriage purely to get a visa. That is why my advice always has been, and always will be; don't marry to get a visa, marry because you want to spend the rest of your lives together. (I appreciate that this is not the only cause of marriage breakdown between Thais and Brits, or anyone else, and am not commenting on the reason for the breakdown of the OP's marriage.)

I believe that there are also tax, especially inheritance tax, and other advantages if one is married or in a civil partnership which unmarried partners do not have. Although I am not an accountant or a lawyer so stand to be corrected on this point by someone who is.