Anonymous participant 839 you are more than a little confused. :o

If you have a Thai child and you are not married to the mother, you get no legal parental rights as the foreign father..

You cannot use the child to get a non-o visa inside the country or a year extension based on supporting a Thai child inside the country until you get granted legal parental rights.

You do that by two methods: going through family court and getting parental rights by decree or once the child is 6 years old you can do it at the local city hall (Amphur.)

I don't think people are trying to be negative, I think they are trying to point out that you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about. :/

You would be able to get a non-ovisa based on having a Thai child outside the country at a Thai consulate that would stamp you in for 90 days

and

you could indeed get at 60 day visit Thai family extension, but those would be the only things you could do without having legal parental rights granted.

And one last time just having your name on the birth certificate does not give you legal parental rights as a foreign father of a Thai child born out of wedlock.

Best of luck with it (y)

If I read your rant 😮 err post correctly 😉 I believe you applied for a single entry tourist visa from the thai consulate in London online via the eVisa website

The VISA is valid for 90 days <- meaning you have that long to ENTER thailand on it and when you do (if it was indeed a single entry tourist visa) you'd have gotten stamped in for 60 days just like everyone who enters on one gets.

You are correct, there is no upside to buying a single entry tourist visa which gets you 60 days when you stamp in because since July 2024 visa exempt entries are 60 days for brits, 😕

You are also correct, on either entry stamp (60 day tourist visa or 60 day visa exempt) if you wanted to stay longer you would have had to go to the office and get a 30 day extension (for 1900baht not 2000 😉 )

𝗦𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗶 𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲-𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬𝗕𝗮𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲. I covered that, you didn't have to get the eVisa, you confused the validity of the visa 90 days (which is how long you have to enter the country on it) with the amount of time you get stamped in on that visa which is 60 days 😕

𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗲-𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆. You do have a point, as long as the visa exempt entry remains 60 days for brits there is no upside to buying a single entry tourist visa online before you wing your way here

Live and learn.

@Alexander ******

a 90 day report has nothing at all to do with a TM30 (other than the 90 day online system checks against the passport for the registered address on the TM30 system)

Okay in BANGKOK you can apply for a 30 day extension when you have 45 days or less left on your current stamp

So with a stamp that runs out on the 30th of Dec you can apply any time from Nov 15th onward

You cannot go to "any office" (like the comment I deleted said) 😕 They did state correctly that Christmas isn't a holiday here for thaiz or thai govt workers so the office will be open the normal hours which is from 8:30am-4:30pm (closed from 12-1 for lunch).

To get a 30 day extension on a 60 day visa exempt entry in Bangkok you go to the immigration office at the IT Square Plaza Laksi location.

Okay people there are OVER 80 immigration offices in the country and it's like this

SOME offices require you to file a new TM30 when you return to your primary address from international travel only

SOME offices require you to file a new TM30 when you return to your primary address from international OR domestic travel

AND

Some offices say as long as you're returning to your primary address from domestic or international travel it doesn't matter at all and you don't file a new TM30

SO what you people need to do is check with your specific office, do what they say 🙂

You would be hard pressed to find a worse source of info on all things entry/visa/extension related to Thailand than any of the AI programs out there. :o :/ :(

The reason they are so bad, is because there is so much misinformation and bad information out on the interweb that when those programs data mine they bring up more bad info than good info..

Best of luck with your visa endeavors.. safe travels.

You're more than a little behind the times

You don't make an appt for anything at the thai consulates in Lao anymore

You go to Lao, you log into the online eVisa system, you upload the required documents for the visa you're applying for, you upload your visa/entry stamp to Lao to prove you're there, you use the hotel address as your "current address" you use the address you have in thailand as your "permanent address", you submit the application, print the confirmation and take that to the thai consulate you're applying thru between 9-11 M-F to pay in cash for the visa. Then you wait in Lao until the visa is approved.

For "standard visas" (Non-O, Non-ED, Non-B) they usually take between 3 and 5 business days to approve them. They send you the approval email with a PDF file attached, you print that (as it is your visa) and then you present that along with your passport to the officer when you stamp back into thailand.

One final time there is NO appt system in Lao for applying for visas, it's all done ONLINE and the only time you go to the consulate is to pay for the visa in cash after you've applied

As I said it usually takes 3-5 days to get approved, what drags it out is you not uploading the correct documents when you make your application, so go slow, get it right, don't make mistakes.

At least in Bangkok the TM30 data is cross checked with the TM47 (90 day report) data, and it's checked when you get your extension.

The way bangkok is interpretting it is that when you stay somewhere that registers you in the system inside the country once you get back to your primary address you need to file a new TM30.

It didn't erase your 11 year history at all, nothing erases your previous TM30 filings, but the most recent one is the one the system and immigrations uses as the place you're registered to stay

You can't get a DTV extension at that office, you have to go to the main one AND the requirements are almost the exact documentation you used to apply for the visa

** 90 day report receipt, TM30, lease, land lord i/d, copies, TM7 form etc

**Show you're still enrolled in or doing what ever it was you used to get the visa

**Show that you have the 500K baht in a bank for 30 days before you apply

**Apply 2 weeks early (for some reason I believe that is a Phuket requirement)

I would say you need to slog on over to the Phuket main immigration office and get the list of requirements

Most people who tried have failed in their extension attempts there, and end up bouncing out/back to get a new 180 days

In Hua Hin you can file a 90 day report at either the Bluport Mall location OR at the main immigration office location.