Each passport needs its own visa. You can apply for you and your child dtv dependant at the same time on two separate application. Both of you must be outside of thailand. Depending on which embassy, it can take 1 to 2 weeks to be approved. I applied for my both my kids in hcmc and it was very straight forward, took about 5 business day
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