yes you need a court order before you can act as the legal father of a half Thai child. There is no way around it, because the court approved fathership is the only fathership proof Immigration will accept for pupose of applying a Non-Imm-O family visa and the subsequent 1-year Extension of Stay. Alternatively you could marry the mother, and apply for the "Non-Imm-O married to a Thai wife" visa and EOS. Good luck in finding a cheaper option.

@Danica *****

yes, and you will need to attend classes. Because Immigration will perform spot checks. They will talk Thai to you to see if you are a genuine language student

@Danica *****

be careful, scuba diving offering you a one-year visa is not legal . .they tale your money bribe immigration and you will have trouble in later years to get any visa at all

@Dave *********

you need to open your eyes to see it

Dave Fletcher . . . you need to open the E-visa online application. You will be able to apply for the 90-days single entry Non-Imm-O retirement/over 50 visa. Just follow the lead. There is no need to take the Non-Imm-O/A visa. Embassy of Ottawa offers the Non-Imm-O visa! Check their website!

. however the pitfalls at the Malaysia land borders are a bit complicated to list

@Graham *****

he seems to be a Czech citizen who will receive the 30 days visa-exempt stay permit

Simon Adams

The visa was issued on March 11. It’s validity for use for an unlimited number of entries (“multiple entry”) expires on September 6

The 6 months visa validity starts on March 11. So if you enter Thailand on March 20, you lose 9 days of visa validity.

Upon each entry, you will get stamped in for a 60 days stay permit

On each and every 60 days stay permit you can apply for a 30-days extension of the stay permit, for 1900.- THB, on Immigration.

If you take the 30 days extension, you must be aware that before the 90th day expires, you need to exit Thailand.

With the next entry, you will activate another 60 days stay permit

Which you also can extend for 30 more days.

To get the maximum number of days out of this visa, you should therefore enter Thailand as close as you can, to the date of issue

If you exit and re-enter Thailand before midnight of September 6 (or any day before this date) you will get stamped in for 60 daysfor the last time.

You can then still get a 30 days extension of this last 60-days stay permit, and it will take you to theoretically almost 9 months of stay in Thailand

@Sam ********

your friend doesn't "extend the visa". Immigration is only issuing a "1-year extension of stay permit". A stay permit is not a visa

@Ruth ******

the folks who pay the agents, need to pay this sum EVERY year 😎