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I am due to go next week to extend my visa (non o) by 12 months based on marriage.

Having e-mailed my local immigration office to confirm what documents are required, they have told me that I must also bring a witness who can tell them about myself and my husband, and is from a local authority/police/civil servant...We live about 4 hours drive from the immigration office, so finding someone in this kind of position who can take a whole weekday off to come sign some document for us is proving impossible...

Has anyone else been asked for this? Is there any alternative?

Please help, stress levels rising rapidly!

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There are a few offices that asks for a witness instead of doing a home visit.

The civil servant can be the village head or one of their assistants. They normally have time to go with you since they don't have a 8 to 5 job. You might have to buy them lunch or perhaps give them a little tea money.

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There are a few offices that asks for a witness instead of doing a home visit.

The civil servant can be the village head or one of their assistants. They normally have time to go with you since they don't have a 8 to 5 job. You might have to buy them lunch or perhaps give them a little tea money.

Translation issues with husband, is the Sai-jhun the village headman?

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There are a few offices that asks for a witness instead of doing a home visit.

The civil servant can be the village head or one of their assistants. They normally have time to go with you since they don't have a 8 to 5 job. You might have to buy them lunch or perhaps give them a little tea money.

Translation issues with husband, is the Sai-jhun the village headman?

Kảnạn or in Thai กำนัน is, I believe, the word you are looking for ...............
Edited by nzexpat
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There are a few offices that asks for a witness instead of doing a home visit.

The civil servant can be the village head or one of their assistants. They normally have time to go with you since they don't have a 8 to 5 job. You might have to buy them lunch or perhaps give them a little tea money.

Translation issues with husband, is the Sai-jhun the village headman?

Kảnạn or in Thai กำนัน is, I believe, the word you are looking for ...............

Kamnan is the sub district (tambon) head.

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Is the Pu Shoy Baan (sorry for the guessing of spelling) ok?

"Shoy" does not look good.

I am not a native English speaker, so have problems with phonemic transcription to English.

But why not simply listen:

http://www.clickthai-online.de/cgi-bin/playmp3.pl?238893.mp3

Here you see a phonemic transcription that might fit:

http://www.thai2english.com/dictionary/1375058.htm

(pôo yài bâan, poo yai baan)

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schouy/shoy/shoii/schooey something like that :S my thai is still far from good..! but apparently it means helper, which I assume means he is the pu/poo yai baan's assistant... which, I presume (based on above posts) will be fine... But it's rather a long journey (about 4 hours each way) so I would rather be closer to certain than just presuming if anyone can help? :)

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