I have a couple questions about supporting documentation suggested for Thai gf. Is a plane ticket in hand at time of the interview required? Is there any need to translate Thai paperwork, like house ownership or car payments or family records?

I have a couple questions about supporting documentation suggested for Thai gf. Is a plane ticket in hand at time of the interview required? Is there any need to translate Thai paperwork, like house ownership or car payments or family records?

 

No. UKVI specifically advise that you don't buy tickets until you have a visa.

 

Anything in Thai that you rely on as evidence to support an application needs to be translated. Car payments mean nothing on a visa application. Property, tabian baan - yes.

 

Family records? Which family records do you mean? Is this for a visit visa?

The OP is asking about a tourist visa for the US, so the UKVI advice wouldn't apply.

 

US officials start from the position that the applicant isn't going to return to their home country, it's up to the applicant to prove otherwise, if you have a trawl through the forum you will find numerous threads in respect of applications for tourist visa for a Thai girl friend, it's not easy. You might want to have a read through this visaapply, if you haven't done so already.

No need to translate documents to English, indeed, they'll probably not be looked at anyway at the interview.  Plane ticket also not required.

 

As OldGit said, the interviewing consular officer needs to be convinced that the GF will return to Thailand after the U.S. visit.  One helpful way to establish this is that, assuming she's going with you, that you will return.  The assumption here being that if you return, she will come back with you.

 

Are you semi established here in Thailand?  Been here some length of time?  Retired?  Job?  Otherwise?  

 

What type of Thai visa or extension are you on?

 

Mac

if she has a career, family 300,000 baht in the bank, job, speaks english? Then why not have her get a tourist visa without you.

Might get the tourist visa, might not, too, as some people would just like to have a long stay in the U.S., sometimes working illegally, then later return to Thailand.  I know several who have done such.

 

But, that's not the circumstances in this instance, so a different approach useful.

 

Mac