Thank you so much for responding to my previous post, and I understand and respect why you were unable to post it on the group. My follow up question is this: If my wife and children do the 30 visa exempt entry into Thailand by land (plus the 30 day renewal at our local immigration office) for those three times that we previously mentioned, would that be in conflict with me staying on my foundation visa? That way I can continue working for the foundation to finish our work well, and my wife will be at home doing homeschool with the children anyway. Thank you for your advice and help!!!!

I've got an interesting issue that I don't think has come up in this group. I've been in Surin for 12 years with a foundation visa. I'm American and married to an American. We have four American kids as well.

-We came to the States in May to drop off our oldest child at college. In August, my wife and second daughter went to England. *They were robbed in Birmingham and lost their belongings and PASSPORTS.*

-They had to get emergency passports in London and will be applying for permanent American passports soon. We are scheduled to return to Thailand in January.

-My wife and kids are "followers" and their visas and re-entry stamps were in the stolen passports. We don't have copies of the old passports and re-entry stamps.

Does anybody have any suggestions for the process to get their visas again? When they show up at Suvarnabhumi, they will just be given tourist visas. Should I try to apply for a non-O visa at the Thai consulate in Chicago and then convert that visa into a follower visa? My visa (and my two sons) expires March 9, 2020

I'd love to avoid flying into Thailand and then leaving for Laos or PP.