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[Billion]

HERE WE GO!

Don’t let the immigration fool you around, they try hard to bring you down.

Just show the rec docs and make sure you have printed 2 copies of everything.

Take a cue number and wait for your time. Show the officers what you have.

Sign some Immigrations docs and off you go. Wait for about 4 weeks and come back.

Remark: Your wife must follow you and sign some docs too!

FYI: 400.000 Baht in Thai bank account prior to 2 - 3 months is required also!

OR: 40.000 Baht of income if you work in Thailand.

Photo: 6 x 4 not older than 6 months.

Bank statement: not older then 7 days.

Fee: 1900 Baht.

Good luck.

[Maestro]

Thank you for your report, Billion.

For the record, that was for an annual extension of stay for the reason of living with your Thai wife (marriage extension). Two copies of everything is required at immigration offices outside Bangkok; in Bangkok (Chaeng Watthana), one copy will do.

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Maestro

[Guest]

"Don’t let the immigration fool you around, they try hard to bring you down."

In 20 years I've never found immigration officers to be dishonest, rude, or trying to bring me down. They have a set of rules and if you abide by them, and are polite, (and may be use whatever Thai language skills you have), you'll find them to also be polite and helpful. Your average I/O can't bend or break the rules (as imposed by their bosses) to suit you.

[lazygourmet]

"Don't let the immigration fool you around, they try hard to bring you down."

In 20 years I've never found immigration officers to be dishonest, rude, or trying to bring me down. They have a set of rules and if you abide by them, and are polite, (and may be use whatever Thai language skills you have), you'll find them to also be polite and helpful. Your average I/O can't bend or break the rules (as imposed by their bosses) to suit you.

I can -only- second you post...

[Tafia]

FYI: 400.000 Baht in Thai bank account prior to 2 - 3 months is required also!

OR: 40.000 Baht of income if you work in Thailand.

1) I understood proof of 40,000 per month whether income within Thailand or thro a Pension letter if the money was coming from outside Thailand (ie Pension income).

2) If coming from outside via Pension, do you have to show monthly deposits into your Thai Bank Account or will the letter suffice.

Anyone confirm?

[PoorSucker]

FYI: 400.000 Baht in Thai bank account prior to 2 - 3 months is required also!

OR: 40.000 Baht of income if you work in Thailand.

1) I understood proof of 40,000 per month whether income within Thailand or thro a Pension letter if the money was coming from outside Thailand (ie Pension income).

2) If coming from outside via Pension, do you have to show monthly deposits into your Thai Bank Account or will the letter suffice.

Anyone confirm?

If from abroad, you need a income statement from your embassy.

[PoorSucker]

"Don't let the immigration fool you around, they try hard to bring you down."

In 20 years I've never found immigration officers to be dishonest, rude, or trying to bring me down. They have a set of rules and if you abide by them, and are polite, (and may be use whatever Thai language skills you have), you'll find them to also be polite and helpful. Your average I/O can't bend or break the rules (as imposed by their bosses) to suit you.

I can -only- second you post...

Obviously you don't live on Koh Samui.

[PoorSucker]

Papers for extension based on marriage.

1. Application form T.M. 7 with one photograph size 4x6 cm. and Visa Fee 1900.-Baht

2. Copy Marriage Certificate

3. Copy Kor Ror 2 from amphur office

4. Child's birth certificate (if any)

5. Copy wife’s house registration

6. Copy wife’s identity card

7. Copy passport, non-Im visa, arrival card.

8. Interview the husband and wife for confirming status of husband and wife

9. Map to residency

10. Picture of house and family, in house and outside showing house number.

With money in bank option.

1. Letter from bank same day or day before stating bank records, make a transaction just before to get it up to date.

2. Bank account must be in Husbands name, joint accounts will not qualify.

With Income option

1. A copy of work permit

2. Personal Corporation income Tax (PND.1) in latest 3 months and personal income tax for previous year with receipt

All of the above in two copies

[Billion]

Thanks for that PoorSucker! You got everything needed for the one year marriage stay.

As maestro says; only one copy if you live in Bangkok and applying at CW.

Reason why I wrote: (Imm fool you around) is because the photo thing.

Every renewal year they ask for 5-6 photos of me and my wife together at home.

They must have about 20-25 photos now filed in my file folder.

Why are they asking for this dam photos every year!

[lopburi3]

To help prove to review officals you are together more often than just during the annual renewal I suspect.

[Billion]

I don’t think so while many couple like us has been together for many years, don’t they have more important things to do then fooling around with the photo thing.

This is not a law to bring photos every year, isn’t it!

[Maestro]

Indeed, there is no such law, but there is this requirement in paragraph 2.18 of Police Order 777/2551:

2.18 In the case of being a family member of a Thai national (applicable only to parents, spouse, children, adopted children, or spouse’s children):

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(3) In the case of spouse, the relationship must be de jure and de facto

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Therefore, if an immigration officer wants to see photos, that’s what an applicant has to bring. Other immigration officers visit the applicant's residence unannounced, or ask a lot of questions of his neighbours, or ask the applicant to bring the village headman along to the immigration office, etc. However, it is not for the applicant to chose.

[moe666]

I donot understand why people have such a hard time following the rules. No country in the world allows you to show up and live without some sort of qualifying requirement and no matter what is said on TV I doubt there are many as easy as Thailand to qualify for some sort of visa.

[Billion]

Thanks Maestro! I understand your points. Yes the first year we had the Imm officers at our home to check that we live together and then nothing happen for about 3 years. When we moved from Bangkok to Samut Prakan the officers at SP start to ask for photos together at home. We have provided at least 6 photos every year now for 4 years and they have all the photos filed so why can’t they check back in my file folder as all the photos are already there!

Moe666! I don’t have a hard time following the rules. Why I have to bring the same photos every year, you tell me! Photos are from the same house, same living room, same kitchen, same bedroom, and the same garden every year. No change, the same living and the same wife!

[moe666]

Thanks Maestro! I understand your points. Yes the first year we had the Imm officers at our home to check that we live together and then nothing happen for about 3 years. When we moved from Bangkok to Samut Prakan the officers at SP start to ask for photos together at home. We have provided at least 6 photos every year now for 4 years and they have all the photos filed so why can't they check back in my file folder as all the photos are already there!

Moe666! I don't have a hard time following the rules. Why I have to bring the same photos every year, you tell me! Photos are from the same house, same living room, same kitchen, same bedroom, and the same garden every year. No change, the same living and the same wife!

Billon not pointing you out just the many who cannot be bothered. Yes you know the same house same wife but the new immigration hire or transfer from Bangkok may not know this. Good luck

[Billion]

Thanks moe666! Of cause they know everything; they get all the info’s from the personal file folder.

Why they don’t check backwards in my file folder, there are the photos from the beginning of our marriage. (Imm fooling you around again)

Immigration offices outside Bangkok sending the docs to CW in Bangkok and then sending back to the offices outside Bangkok. (4 weeks) 2 copies of everything and 6 photos X 2 for CW and the outside offices = 12 photos every year. Oh my god!