Schengen visa question: Visa for Belgium and guarantee
In a few months I would like to invite my boyfriend for a short 10-day holiday in Belgium. I have read the Schengen file but I am not sure what the best option is. Either my friend can show his own bank statements or I have to stand surety. My friend always has an average of between thirty and forty thousand baht in his bank account.
Schengen visa question: Does my Thai woman have an integration requirement if I move back to Belgium?
Does anyone know if my Thai wife has a civic integration requirement for Flanders/Belgium when we move there? My Thai wife and I want to move back to Antwerp. My wife is 55 years old and I am 64 years old. 20 years ago I moved to NL against my will because my wife did not get a tourist visa or residence permit for Belgium.
Reader's question: Legal marriage procedure for a Thai woman with a Belgian man in Belgium
What is the procedure for a legal marriage of a Thai woman to a Belgian man in Belgium? Do you also have to register it in Thailand? Is this a legal obligation?
Adoption in Thailand of a minor child of my Thai partner
I am Belgian and have been living in Thailand since 2009. In 2012 I married my Thai partner. In Thailand I adopted my partner's minor daughter. This procedure started in 2017 and the adoption completed in 2019. In the text below you can read more about the method here in Thailand, cost and benefits, such as. a Thai minor child of a Thai partner also acquires Belgian nationality after adoption in Thailand.
I have a girlfriend in Thailand and she would come to Belgium. I sent the requested documents and she charges me 8.000 baht for visa service including insurance and 3.200 baht for the embassy. Is this correct? Then follows plane ticket etc…. Is this all true or does that look like fraud?
Can someone give me more information about a Visa C to legally cohabit with my Thai girlfriend in Belgium? At my town hall they say that I better apply for a tourist visa and then apply for legal cohabitation in Belgium, they claim at the town hall that you cannot apply for this in Thailand.
Going to live in Belgium with my Thai wife after our marriage, what is the visa procedure?
I am looking for the correct procedure for obtaining a visa for my future Thai wife. I read a lot about this and that but have not seen a clear and understandable procedure anywhere. Do you have a flow available?
I have a question regarding the relocation of a resident (Thai) from Luxembourg to Belgium. What documents are needed if she wants to come and live in Belgium? Does a new visa have to be applied for or can she move to Belgium with the granted visa and register as a resident? And what formalities must be completed in Luxembourg and in Belgium?
This year, the Netherlands is fifth in the list of happiest countries in the world and has even risen one place. Belgium is in 18th place, Thailand is also doing well with place 52, according to the World Happiness Report 2019 of the United Nations.
Problems with remigration to Belgium
We have a rather unusual case to which neither the Belgian embassy nor the Immigration Department knows the answer, because I always receive a standard answer with a reference to their site that does not contain my situation. I am Belgian, 48, my Thai legal wife is 40. I myself have been working and living in Thailand for 20 years, now we have decided to live in Belgium after so many years. Well, that doesn't seem possible.
Together with my Thai wife (who has been with me in Belgium for one year) I will start the family reunification procedure to bring her Thai son (now in Thailand) to Belgium for good. Has any of the readers here done this (not too long ago)?
Emigrating from Belgium to Thailand?
Next year I would like to live in Thailand, and I have a few questions. I went to the Belgian immigration service with my questions, but they are unable or unwilling to answer me. I hope you could give me an answer?
Schengen visa question: Can my Thai girlfriend with a Belgian residence permit visit me in the Netherlands?
My Thai girlfriend is in possession of a Belgian F+ Card (permanent residence card of a family member of a citizen of the Union) valid until September 29, 2020. In the period June 2016 to Aug 2018 she visited me several times with this residence card. visited the Netherlands, so without a visa. My question is whether she can still enter the Netherlands without a visa with her F+ card, which is still activated (checked via eID Belgium). Does anyone have experience with this?
Going to Belgium and applying for a visa for my Thai son
I will briefly introduce myself. I am Tom 28 years old, living in Belgium, married to a 30 year old Thai lady
with whom I have a son. Now that we are busy with all the papers in order regarding our marriage and the birth and recognition of our son (were not married at the time of the birth).
Thai who has lived in Belgium must register as a voter?
A Thai friend of mine was married to a Belgian and lived in Belgium for a number of years. After her divorce, she went back to live in Thailand. Now she has received a letter that she is required to vote and register as a voter. She wonders what will happen if she doesn't?
Can my girlfriend's son study French in the Ghent area?
My girlfriend's 15 year old son speaks French and of course Thai. He currently lives in Luxembourg. What possibilities are there for the son to study in Belgium in a French-speaking school (near Ghent)? An international school is an option but unaffordable (+/- 12.000 euros per year). Does anyone have experience with such a situation?
Token to view data at the Belgian pension service
Previously, an identification key could be used to access your details at the pension service. As of 1/1/2019 this is over. An alternative is working with a 'token', but it now appears that you have to go to Belgium to obtain this and this must then be repeated every 2 years. At least this is reported by Fod Bosa, which issues the token. And so also for your wife, because that is usually where the shoe pinches. She does not have a Belgian passport and therefore cannot log in online because she does not have an adapted Eid card.