@Frankie *******

a child born to a Thai citizen is automatically a Thai citizen whether born in or outside of Thailand. Holding the pink ID card has no bearing on this

Here’s a good blog on how to do it yourself

I was involved in discussions with the BOI when the smartvisa was being formulated. They needed to strike a balance between cash flow poor startups and ‘anyone with a laptop’. The 600k per year breaks down to 50K per month which was decided to be the base amount of money you’d need to support yourself in a city like BKK in the initial two year start up phase.