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Originally Posted by RobbieV
If you put a little effort into it and send 5-15k to a girl every year to be married on paper she'll be more than happy with it.
Bringing 40k into the country is peanuts since you'll blow at least twice that amount on soapies if you're just half a man.
You need 400k in a Thai bank account to qualify for a marriage visa extension. Which kind of brings the "don't bring any money into Thailand" part of your plan kind of moot. If you want to do it by income rather than a lump sum, then you need a letter from your embassy confirming your income, which you probably don't want to do for poker.
Then you will also be held over a barrel by a Thai girl for the entirety of your stay, she could just decide one day that 20k per year isn't nearly enough and your visa is gone.
A business visa would be a much better way to go about it. They are more expensive to get than an education visa (mostly because you first have to set up a company which involves around 30k baht worth of legal fees), but after that you don't have to rely on the whims of some random Thai girl to remain in the country. You'll be paying the money to a company instead, which is set up basically for no reason other than to facilitate business visas.
The only issue with the business visa is that you will still have to do visa runs every three months unless you are eligible for a work permit (which basically means your business has to employ some Thais too, and you will have to pay payroll tax).
Last edited by PokerSpiv; 11-17-2014 at 05:51 PM.