My lady, not wife, is a passive rice farmer, owning some 50 rai.

Would it work?

Invitation from US is a given. My guarantee is of no use, I guess.

If she actively manages the rice farm and her presence is required shortly after her planned return to Thailand, it might work if she documents it fully. If she is in fact truly passive and her management is not required, probably not on that basis.

I've read it and read it mate but I can't work it out

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Are you in the U.S.? If so, I'd think the chances of her getting a U.S. tourist visa are slim to none.

And, yes, you guarantee of her return to Thailand would not be worth anything.

If you were in Thailand, or based here and working elsewhere, or retired here, then it'd be an entirely different story, and the chances would be a whole lot better.

Mac

I have been in Thailand since the last 8 years basically uninterrupted and that is the same time frame during which we have been together, equally uninterrupted. The lady has been traveling with me to Europe repeatedly.

Your latest post changes the picture considerably.

Your long standing relationship can be the theme to establishing her "compelling reason" to return to Thailand, once you establish that relationship in a documentary way and your future plans to remain in Thailand, including your visa status supporting that contention.

Likewise, she is does not have a virgin passport, so all of her travels with you clearly establishes prior trips outside of Thailand to countries where she could work at a high paying job, compared to Thailand, and clearly that is not her aim.

Certainly an itinerary of all of her travels with you in the past with departure and return dates and what was done on those trips together buttresses your contention that the trip to the U.S. is just another overseas trip for the two of you, as before, with a return date to Thailand established. An itinerary in the US is a good idea as well.

If you are paying the expenses of the trip be clear about that and it doesn't hurt to provide proof of the ability to pay them. If she is sharing in the expense of the trip, she should show the ability to do so.

I think she has a good chance of getting the visa if you follow the long term love relationship between with you and both of your continued long term Thailand connections and obligations upon your return.

Good luck and enjoy your trip.

PS As much documentation as you can provide the better, a rule of thumb is supporting every contention you make regarding her "compelling reason" to return to Thailand by documentation.

Indeed, fully agree with ProThaiExpat, different picture now.

As long as you're pretty well established here, "retirement" extensions, perhaps, in your passport, odds are that you'll be coming back, whicUh would also indicated that your GF will also return. Be sure she takes your original passport to the interview to show the extensions, if that's what you have.

My now wife had three earlier visas as a GF, the last one prior to marriage was a 10-year one. An American friend's GF got same a couple weeks ago, perhaps based on his retirement extension here .And, she'd previously been rejected for a U.S. visa last year before he had the extension.

Good luck. Please report back how it goes.

Mac

Thanks for your encouragement, will not rush things, do a bit of thinking, planning and will most certainly report back in due course.