I went to do my marriage visa renewal at Bangkok's new Chaeng Watthana Immigration office. Just to mention, it's much faster than the old one at Suan Phlu. For my marriage visa renewal, it took about 2 hours, compared to last year's 8 hours at Suan Phlu.

But the big changes are, that you're apparently no longer required to have the 400,000 Baht deposited for 3 months, but only 2 months prior to renewal. I know it was always 2 months for first-time applicants, but now it's apparently for renewals as well.

And it doesn't seem to be only "up to the officer" but she actually handed me a printed document with the Immigration logo on it that said that next year I would need the 400,000 deposited 2 months before renewal, not 3 months.

For myself, I'd still put it in there 3 months before just to be safe in case that they change it again, but I just thought it would be worth sharing.

2 months seasoning for the marriage extension for every extension, not just the first one, is the official rule since November 2008, but some immigration offices don't know it yet or deliberately ignore it.

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Maestro