Am I even married?

[lounger]

..... I suppose we are all assuming the Hong Kong marriage was properly conducted witnessed and recorded at the local authority and the certificate looks other than a Hallmark Greetings card complete with happy tune and verse.

[mgjackson69]

You are not recognised as being married in Thailand unless you have been through a Buddhist wedding service

Sorry but it isnt, it is actually fact. Applies only to legal matters but that is there rule not mine

Sorry mate but you really need to get the facts which clearly you dont have. You are working on what is reasonable but Thailand requires different documents. Try getting a "Thai wife visa" without a Thai marriage license and you wont get it

My wife and I married in Bangkok in 2007 at the amphur in Bangrak. I have the Thai marriage certificate and just completed my 7th Extension of Stay based on marriage (what you wrongfully call a "Thai wife visa").

We never did any sort of Buddhist wedding service.

I guess all of the government agencies that I have dealt with (Immigration, Amphur officials, police, Depart of Land Transport) are all wrong.

lol, you beat me to the post, but I beat you to Bang Rak in 2006 ;-)

I was with this lady in 2006, but was still in the "waiting period" from my divorce in USA.