14 days visa exemption, extend 60 days based on marriage?

[Backpacker1990]

Hi all,

Right now I'm living together with my Thai girlfriend in the Isaan. This I'm doing for more than a year on a tourist visa already. In September I will fly back home, get a new passport(almost full) and get the papers I need in Thailand to marry my girlfriend.

The problem is that the next 2 years, I won't have enough money to show on my Thai bank account so someone told me that it's possible to go out of the country every 2.5 months.

Basically it means that I do a border run to the Cambodian border, here I get a 15 days visa exemption and I can extend that at the local immigration with 60 days based on marriage. On that way I don't have to show them a prove of income. He said he did it for 5 years like that.

You guys know if this is really possible and that I can do that for long?

Thanks in advance for the replies!

[ubonjoe]

The 60 day extension to visit your wife can be applied for with any type of entry.

After you get married you could go to the consulate in Savannakhet Laos and apply for multiple entry non-o visa with no financial proof needed.

[elviajero]

You will not be able to do back to back visa exempt entries for 2 years anymore.

• Once you are married you can get a multiple entry non immigrant 'O' visa. It is valid for 1 year from the issue date.
• You can enter as often as you want during that year, but each entry is limited to 90 days, so border hops are needed every 90 days.
• It's possible to extend any of the 90 day entries by 60 days without finacial proof.
• If you enter just before the visa expires you'll get a final 90 day stay giving nearly 15 months total stay possible. That last entry can also be extended by 60 days taking you to nearly 17 months from the same visa.
• At the end of the 15/17 months you can apply for a new visa, or apply for a 1 year extension of stay if you've got the 400K together.
• 1 year extensions can be applied for at the end of any 90 day stay if the financial requirements can be met.

[Backpacker1990]

Thanks for the replies, good info!

For how long can I do the multiple entry non o visas without proof how much money I have?

[Eclipse]

That is a question nobody can answer.

At the moment you can do this.