My girlfriend and I have decided to get married this year. In the Netherlands or Thailand, it doesn't matter. In any case, where the paperwork is the lowest and most importantly - with the shortest waiting/turnaround time, where both of us have to be present in the country of marriage for the various procedures.
On February 4, 2020, I went to the Belgian embassy with my Thai wife (married before Buddha) to get married under Thai law with a view to applying for a visa D “family reunification”. We were refused marriage in Thailand on the grounds that we only met in Thailand for 7 weeks.
Investigation into marriage of convenience in Belgium, can I start applying for visa D?
My wife went on holiday in Belgium with a passport in July. In the meantime, we were legally married in October at the Belgian embassy in Bangkok, approved by the consul. On October 20, I wanted to register this marriage at the town hall and I was informed that an investigation will first follow because of a marriage of convenience and that I will have to wait months
I have known my Thai girlfriend since February 2016. We had applied for a Short Stay Visa in March with the intention of getting married (it was already in order at my municipality). Now we get a message from the federal prosecutor's office that the application has been refused because of insufficient evidence of a relationship.
Reader question: My marriage in Thailand is seen as a marriage of convenience in Belgium
At that time, in March 2011, I married in Thailand according to the law in Bangkok, and afterwards also married according to the Buddhist rite. Had everything legalized, translated as it should be, and upon arrival in Belgium the marriage certificate was issued at my town hall to register my marriage. Then I was told that it would take about 6 to 7 months before I would receive an answer.
The Immigration Bureau suspects that foreign criminals enter into marriages of convenience in order to stay in Thailand legally. The agency was recently alerted by the PACC to a district in the Northeast, where 150 Thai women have married a foreigner in recent months. That number is unusually high. There is a suspicion that these are marriages of convenience,' says bureau head Nathathorn.
Reader question: My Belgian municipality says that my marriage to a Thai is a marriage of convenience
I am Belgian and legally married in April in Thailand (Bangrak) to a Thai lady. Have everything legalized at Foreign Affairs, then have it translated into Dutch and legalized at the embassy.
'The Netherlands too strict for expats with a foreign partner'
The rules that State Secretary Fred Teeven of Justice once devised to combat marriages of convenience are too strict and too rigid. Dutch people with a foreign partner are the victims of this, warns D66 MP Gerard Schouw.