@Stephen ********

you can still get a bank account opened fully legal if you enter on a 90-days Non-Imm-O visa. If you happen to meet incompetent banking staff, just use an agent. Costs around 5000 THB to get a bank account opened with any of the many agent's in Pattaya. No health insurance requried on a Non-Imm-O, but it might be wise to have secured a good health insurance just for peace of mind

never allow the ATM to do a "conversion". Only accept a withdrawal in local currency. If tjhe ATM asks you if you want to see the exchange rate on the screen, always decline!

@Robert *******

you can get a Thai bank account opened on a Non-Imm-O visa and on a Non-Imm-O/A visa as well . . . . if you are met with incompetent bank staff, use the service of an agent

I guess you will need a 3 month bank account statement over 500,000 THB equivalent sitting in your account for 3 months, as almost every Thai embassy worldwide has by now set up this 3-months requirement for the DTV application

print your bank statements or whatever you got, then visit the embassy personally and ask them for an interview appointment. Same as you did when you paid the visa application fee. You must however stay in Laos during the processing period

@Derek *********

this is the webpage of Immigration where your GF can register her house

@Derek *********

So, your girlfriend got the blue housebook She first has to register the house in the TM30 Online System. She will receive a login-ID and a password. She will be asked by the system to change the password.

After this is done, your girlfriend can report your arrival at her house in the TM30 online system - as having arrived at this accomodation.

You, the foreigner, usually don't register the house in the system by yourself, as you would need the blue housebook and the data it contains to do so.

However, if your girlfriend gives you the login-ID and the password, you can register every of your arrivals by yourself.

Instead of this proceedings, the two of you could also visit Immigration, together with her blue housebook and her Thai ID card and you with your passport, and register the TM30 directly at the Immigration office

@Vito *************

you seem to misunderstand the DTV issued on a "soft power". You cannot work on it inside Thailand. You are supposed to attend seminars, classes and schools. As attendances aren't checked by Immigration, you are litterally free to live, but not allowed to work.

@John *******

asking any Immigration inside Thailand won't get him anywhere. It is as I already commented: It depends on the individual decision of the Immigration officer at the border, and person's recent stamp history

@John *********

it's not possible to be a dependant of a daughter who is older than 18 years. A mother can get a dependent Non-O visa for a child that is going to school in Thailand on a Non-Imm-ED visa, but when this child is over 18 years old, she can't be on a dependant visa any more. The daugther is on a Non-Imm-B visa and working in Thailand, and I have never heard that a mother can get a dependant visa based on a daughter working in Thailand