Marriage visa -- now what?

[redwood13]

Here's a link to the Police Order:

 

http://tinyurl.com/yb2rmh

 

-redwood

[ThaiHome]

If you are a US citizen, the consulate does not require any verification of income for letter. All they do is notarize your statement of your income.

 

TH

 

[belfastish]

so you could direct debit your money in an overseas account to a thai account,hense an income?

[belfastish]

so you could put your money in a relatives account and get them to send it to a thai account monthly?

[ThaiHome]

I don't think there is even a requirement the income goes into a Thai bank account.

 

To put it bluntly, you can put any damn thing you want on the paper and as long as you are willing to affirm to the consulate official it is true, it will be accepted by immigration as proof of income.

 

TH

[rickfarang]

The (below) is from the October 1, 2006 rules. You can interpret it yourself. Read carefully!

 

 

(6) In case of the applicant who is

married to a Thai wife, one of them

or both of them need to have the

total annual income that is

averaged out not less than 40,000

Baht per month. Except for the case

that the said foreign national has

entered Thailand before this Order

is enforced and the foreign national

has been permitted to stay in the

Kingdom by the result of having

married to a Thai wife, then if the

applicant does not have the said

income, then, the latest 3 months

records of the account book of any

Bank in Thailand with the account

name of either or both parties need

to have the amount of money not

less than 400,000 Baht.

[elef]

So the general rule is that the combined monthly income must be 40,000, but renewals can instead show that the last 3 months before application they had at least 400,000 baht in thai banks.