Can I extend my NON-IMM-O visa to a guardian visa in Thailand as a foreign mother of a Thai child?

@Stef****

, if you can, please report back and let us know how it went

Okay, what you need to do is, get ALL the documentation together to get a visa based on supporting a half thai child. Because you are the foreign mother of a half-child I believe you're going to have to show 400K baht in the bank. There is no provision in that extension clause where foreign mothers don't show financial requirements like it does when a foreign woman is married to a thai.

You would go in and cancel your extension of stay based on marriage at the immigration office and immediately apply for a NEW yearly extension of stay based on supporting a half-thai child. Just like the marriage extension, it would go under consideration for 30 days then you'd go back and get it inked into your passport.

Then you can get divorced when ever you want to and it will not affect your extension at all.

I think, as the Mother, you would have full custody of your child and certainly should be able to extend your stay based on this. Especially if you were married in Thailand and you child was born there.

You mean you want to change from Married to Child will the wife sign on to it?