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Hi

I am traveling to Thailand to marry my girlfriend in September. I have a few questions.

I will only be in Thailand less than 3 weeks and I am hoping she can return with me about 10 days after the wedding.-I have heard she can apply early (say 4 months before we marry?) and arrange for an interview and get the visa after the wedding? We will only have a week. Is this true? Anyone done this recently?

Hopefully there will be no problems with the marriage visa-She has been granted two visitor’s visas before without any problems, but if we could get it accepted provisionally before the formal marriage ceremony it would save a lot of worries.

After we are married does she need to change her Thai passport to my surname or even to Mrs? What are the issues-we would like to buy land in Thailand at some point and this seems to be an issue? However is it better to travel say to Europe/US later with her having taken my name on her passport? Again we will only have a week to do this after the wedding.

I want to try to book us on the same flight back to UK-I will get a return from the UK but can I book a single for her from too at the same time or does she have to by this in Thailand then turn up at the airport together?

Thanks.

J

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Hi

I am traveling to Thailand to marry my girlfriend in September. I have a few questions.

I will only be in Thailand less than 3 weeks and I am hoping she can return with me about 10 days after the wedding.-I have heard she can apply early (say 4 months before we marry?) and arrange for an interview and get the visa after the wedding? We will only have a week. Is this true? Anyone done this recently?

Hopefully there will be no problems with the marriage visa-She has been granted two visitor’s visas before without any problems, but if we could get it accepted provisionally before the formal marriage ceremony it would save a lot of worries.

After we are married does she need to change her Thai passport to my surname or even to Mrs? What are the issues-we would like to buy land in Thailand at some point and this seems to be an issue? However is it better to travel say to Europe/US later with her having taken my name on her passport? Again we will only have a week to do this after the wedding.

I want to try to book us on the same flight back to UK-I will get a return from the UK but can I book a single for her from too at the same time or does she have to by this in Thailand then turn up at the airport together?

Thanks.

J

You need to send all the application info to the British Embasy well in advance with a cover letter explaining that you will get married in BKK and that untill that time you will obviously not have the marrage certificate.

Then if they judge that the application meets their requirements, they will write back to you and tell you to bring the marrage certifacte to the embasy.

We did this, went to BKK, got married in the morning went to the embasy in the afternoon and had the visa that day.

I think it is largely down to making sure you provide everything the embassy is looking for and if so they will in effect approve the visa subject to them seeing the marrage cert.

Good luck!

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I will only be in Thailand less than 3 weeks and I am hoping she can return with me about 10 days after the wedding.-I have heard she can apply early (say 4 months before we marry?) and arrange for an interview and get the visa after the wedding? We will only have a week. Is this true? Anyone done this recently?

yes its true - i did exactly the same thing last september - i applied 3.5 months before my arrival date, allowed 3 days to marry and get all the paperwork sorted, translated and checked and advised of 3 possible dates for interview... embassy were fine with our plans and offered us a short interview (2 mins) on the first date i suggested.

After we are married does she need to change her Thai passport to my surname or even to Mrs? What are the issues-we would like to buy land in Thailand at some point and this seems to be an issue? However is it better to travel say to Europe/US later with her having taken my name on her passport? Again we will only have a week to do this after the wedding.

yes can change name - for the visa - her ID card needs to be changed, this has to be done back in her village where she would have gotten it from originally.

buying land - she can do this as long as she hasnt given up her thai citizenship... therefore not applying for UK citizenship is a good idea - she wouldnt be able to do this till shes been in UK for 5 years anyway + it now requires a written exam pass... you could research into this as im not sure if and how she would be able to get dual citizenship... im not an expert on this so ill shut up on this

I want to try to book us on the same flight back to UK-I will get a return from the UK but can I book a single for her from too at the same time or does she have to by this in Thailand then turn up at the airport together?

again - did the same thing... waited till we went back to wifes village to change ID card - then changed passport when got back to bkk and finally booked single flight on same flight as mine - not too busy in sept/oct so shouldnt be a problem at all

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Can your wife change her ID card in Bangkok instead of going to the village. If so, how long does it take?

Also, can I go into a travel agents in the UK and book a single ticket for myself and at the same time book 2 return tickets so we are flying together and sat next to each other?

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she can do this as long as she hasnt given up her thai citizenship... therefore not applying for UK citizenship is a good idea -

Is this true - if my fiancee applied for UK citzenship and ended up with a British Passport she looses her Thai Passport/Citezenship? I always though you could have 2 passports? Or is this something particular to Thailand - i.e. you have Brit passport so booger off or does this only apply to land ownership?

Cor all this legal stuff makes my head hurt :o

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