Can a British family qualify for a guardian visa in Thailand for their children attending a French school?

This is to extend the guardian visa after the 3 months.

As you can see, there is something about the way it’s said...

They don’t said “500.000 Bahts as credit” ... they say “500.000 Bahts as shown in bank statement transactions for the past 3 months”

So you really must open a Thai bank account and use it as much as you can during those 3 months.

Maybe someone who can read THAI can say what’s written up about that.

So...

what I did...

I am French national.

I am in thailand with 3 kids...

I am not working.

I entered Thailand with a tourism visa I obtained from the Thai embassy in Cambodia.

That gave us roughly 3 months (2 months + 1 month extension) to prepare all the documents.

First I registered the kids at their school.

The school gave me, after I requested, all documents I need to request a change from tourism visa to ED visa for my kids at the immigration division 1 in Bangkok (must be done 15 days before the tourism visa expire).

After that, I took a copy of the passports of my kids, plus again the papers from the school plus a birth certificate of one of the kid (no need all the kids) and I went back to Cambodia to request that guardian visa.

They normally ask a bank account with 10.000 us$ on it... you can easily open a bank account in Cambodia but that’s another subject.

I could get the visa without those 10k because my bank statement was showing regular transfers from overseas (they just want to make sure that you can provide for your family)

They gave me a cinglé entry non-o visa valid for 3 months.

At the end of the 3 months you extend it from the immigration bureau with a bank statement (THAI this time) showing at least 500.000 Bahts of transactions during the past 3 months.

That’s it.

PM

in order to qualify for a visa based on raising 100% foreign children here you'd need to have 500K baht in a thai bank account under your name only for 30 days before you apply for a yearly extension. You would need to either get 90 day Non-immigrant Type O visas in your country from a thai consulate BEFORE you come here or you could apply for a 90 day Non-O visa once you get here.

Only ONE parent can hold a visa/extension like that per child. So you'd need to have your spouse and you both have the requisite funds one on each child for you both to get those extensions.