He certainly did over complicate the process to discourage you, I have never heard of the approval being refused, very occasionally additional documents yes, refusal of a genuine marriage no. For sure the retirement is faster and preferred by some offices as it's much less work for them.glalt wrote: ↑January 11, 2019, 10:12 amConcerning the visa based on marriage, I first applied in Loei immigration. The officer there tried his best to discourage me from going that route. He told me that would require a lot of paperwork and that I would have to supply pictures of us together, our clothes closet and a map to our house. An immigration officer would then come to question the village chief and neighbors and also inspect our house to make sure that we did live together there. I would also have to make a number of trips to the immigration office which is a two hundred kilometer round trip. Even after all that, it isn't a sure thing that it would be approved because Bangkok immigration would have to give the final approval. I then decided that the visa based on retirement with the 800,000 baht in a Thai bank.was indeed the easiest way to go. It's entirely possible that the officer tried to over complicate the process to discourage me.
The number of trips should be 2, 1 to apply the second to collect the extension, they could make it 3 by submitting it late making a 3rd trip needed.