Royal Thai Consulate Perth — Local services in West Perth

The Thai Consulate has improved a lot over the last few years. If you ring them you will get a recorded message saying they will ring back. They do so within a few hours and are very helpful.

They will email the forms necessary for the visa (etc) which you wish to apply for. As will visa applications for all countries you have to provide the exact documents they require, but the staff are very helpful in guiding you through this.

You will need to leave your passport there and then pick it up during a fixed period on Mondays or leave a self addressed envelope with them (prepaid registered) so they can post it back to you.

I have visited Thailand for several months every year for over a decade. As I have a Thai wife I can apply for a multiple entry spouse visa which allows me to simply register with Immigration in Thailand every 90 days to extend my stay. No need for a border visa run and no requirement to prove your income but you do need a written invitation from your Thai wife to stay there.

Things have changed a lot since I wrote this and they are much better organised than before. However the cost of visas has gone up, a Non Immigrant 'O" visa has to be checked out with the Embassy in Canberra, you need to prove a bank balance, and you can still only pay cash (no credit cards).

This year the lady dealing with our application didn't see that my proof of travel included a return flight and therefore assumed i was planning to stay in Thailand and apply for a Marriage Visa. Consequently she insisted that I had to have $30,000 bank balance (dollars not baht!). Eventually I worked out what the problem was and pointed out her error.

You have so show that your wife (if she is Thai) is registered in the blue book for the house. I gave her copies of both pages of the blue book, she kept one and returned the other. I can't read Thai so I didn't know why she returned it.

The next day the Consulate rang me to say they needed a copy of the blue book page with my wife's name on it. I pointed out that I had given it to them but they returned it. So I offered to email a copy to them. She said it had to be sent by post as it would cost them TWO DOLLARS to print out the email. Despite my protestations we ended up sending another copy by snail mail.

I know its part of Thailand but somebody could improve their organisation, at least to taking credit cards, printing at no cost and...

Quick and easy.

I called first to make sure I had the right stuff. Downloaded the application form from the website and pretty much walked in and paid. Picked my passport with the visa...

You need get ready documents likes copy of passport and travel documents airline tickets and your visa photo If you want to copy or print your documents also you can go...