What are the options for obtaining a Non-O visa as a guardian of a foreign child under amnesty in Thailand?

@Mar****

then you aren't applying for an extension :(

you need to apply for the Non-O visa FIRST,

and to do that you need 15 days left on your current stamp <- meaning you needed to apply by FRIDAY the 11th to have enough time on amnesty to get thru the "under consideration" period for the Non-O visa.

The only thing you might do is get the letter from your embassy asking for a 30 day extension based on being uable to travel, THEN take that to the immigration office and ask them IF you get that 30 day extension can they then process a 90 day non-Immigrant Type visa based on being the parent of a foreign child in school here by showing the 500K baht in a thai bank account in your name only transferred in from overseas.

So when you last entered the country (BEFORE amnesty and before the country was locked down) what type of stamp/extension did they enter on? Were they already ON a yearly extension based on being the parent of a foreign child in school here (the one that requires 500K baht in a thai bank account in their name only for 3 months)?

Perhaps the next week or so may offer alternative solutions to those on amnesty, trying to get long term visas. Crystal ball has given up the ghost.

For Phuket at least (other immigration offices may differ) you cannot get a non-O guardian visa in country. It must be obtained from a embassy/consulate out of the country. Obviously that’s not possible these days without much hardship.

Sadly, we have not been able to obtain any extension visas from Phuket Immi for our foreign children attending an international school (entered on tourism visas, currently under amnesty, now attending school). We visited Phuket Immigration in August to attempt the process and were told to return on Sept 15th. It was our intention to then apply for Non-O and Guardian visas for ourselves.

We now have embassy letters and will approach Immi again on 15th to request Ed visas for our girls, and start the process for Guardian visas (I hope), but we will likely get the 30day embassy letter extension as an interim.

I'm going to say that you can try, but I don't think it'll be successful :(

You'd be a trailing parent. According to the screenshot below, it looks like you, the parent, may have had to have entered Thailand on some type of Non Immigration visa (probably a Non-O visa). You'd also have to have 500K THB in a Thai savings account for three months as well.

But you'll be out of nothing for going to CW and asking for the handout (in case it's different)

Very interesting edge case. Before we begin, does the foreign child have a visa/ extension of stay, and if so, what type of visa/ extension of stay is it?