What are my options for obtaining a visa in Thailand after being advised to apply for a marriage or family visitor visa?

Go to phnom penh and come back same day of course points out you just did this for visa reasons..

. Stay there and have a week cambodia holliday would probably made a big difference imo.

Can some please translate what's on that poster? Looks like basic but v important information for travellers.

We explain those rules more than once daily on this page. And personally I would say, if you want to visit a country for a holiday or to live you can find much more information than just the flight and hotel on the internet. Prepare yourself, not only for the cheapest options to be in that country.

OK point made. But Thailand being a destination for millions (it's not Bhutan), and Thai not being a regional let alone a world language, it would be nice to be told about these requirements in a language understandable to at least some foreigners.

Strangely, i don't see notices written in Thai at Heathrow either.

It's written in Thai. How is it useful for foreigners?

At least people can't say they are not notified regarding the TM30 reporting at the airport any longer 😉

Strange that they called him on the carpet for having too many visa exempt/tourist visa entries and yet they took a picture of the TM.30 poster for thais to report foreigners on his phone :O

What does that poster say ?

That's a very friendly looking border agent.

@Jason *********

, either get that 60 day extension at the immigration office OR go to the thai consulate in Vientiane or Lao and get a single entry tourist visa and enter the country by the Nong Khai land border

you won't have any problem getting in at that border crossing.

So let me see if I understand, did you have a valid tourist visa (from a thai consulate) in your passport when you entered this last time or were you entering on a 30 day visa exempt entry? There's a HUGE difference

Until you get legally married you can't get a marriage visa (or a yearly extension based on marriage to a thai) :/

AND

as your children were born out of wedlock you do NOT have parental rights granted so you can't use the children to get a yearly extension inside the country either :/

You could take the birth certificate, the thai house book listing and a copy of the thai i/d of the mother and go to the thai consulates in either VIentiane or Savannakhet Lao and get a single entry 90 day Non-Immigrant Type O visa based on being the father of half thai kids. Those consulates don't require any proof of funds (so no 400K baht in the bank) and you would get stamped in for 90 days when you come in on that visa. Then after that you could do another 60 day visit family extension.

Until you're legally married it's those choices OR a tourist visa.

Arrange the WP and the Non Immigrant B visa from the company you work for.

go get a 60 day extension based on raising children (as you're not married so you can't get it based on that).

It will buy you some time to figure out your options.