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After years of staying on a retirement extension, we have now applied for a marriage extension for the first time. Married to a Thai for 22 years but never did because those 30 days of processing never went together with my offshore work.
Applied for my Non O visa on February 2 (expired March 14). Already visited immigration and my wife even called them with the fact that I am now on overstay. Now today my marriage extension application has been under processing for 45 days.
Who can tell me why this has been going on for 45 days.
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I'd be surprised to find you in "Overstay" because of this.
When applying for your annual extension, you should normally have received an “Under consideration” stamp in your passport. That stamp says the following (or a similar text): “Application of stay is under consideration of the immigration bureau. Applicant must contact the office again in person on….(a date)”
In other words, you must come back on that date to collect your final renewal.
Usually such an “Under consideration” stamp is 30 days, but Immigration has the right to extend that period to a maximum of 45 days after the end date of your previous period of stay. In your case, that would be a maximum of 45 days after March 14.
No one can answer why that is possibly longer than 30 days. That is an immigration decision.
In other words, you should check which date is in your “Under consideration” stamp. On that day you have to go back to immigration. They are not going to call you for that or come and bring it themselves.....
If you don't know, take a picture of that stamp and email it to me and I'll take a look at it.
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