this is the current police order. Check under 2.2 it says inland travel doesn't require you to file a new TM30 after return at home. Only if you come from abroad. . . . . . . . . . . .

@Aidan ******

you would not have been able to register an address under the TM30, without the departure card. Because in order to file a TM30 correctly, the hotel or the landlord need the departure card number. If you lost the deparure card but have been told by whomever, that your address and TM30 has been registered successfully, this cannot be true

@Benjamin *****

it is two months seasoning, not three

@Tod ********

sorry Tod, but all my SCB bank letters in the recent 13 years for applying for the extensions of stay, have always been in Thai

@Paul **********

normally if your wife vouches for you, uses her phone and address contact details for the bank and you bring a certificate of residence from immigration along, most bank branches will accept opening a savings account for you. If one branch says no, go to another bank.

You can get the 90-days Non-Imm-O Visa based on having a half Thai child, by showing the birth certificate with your name on it, when applying on the Thai embassy or consulate.

However for the application for a “1-year extension of stay based on raising a half Thai child”, you will need the parential rights approved by a Thai family court. And this process might take some months to complete.

You could set the approval process into motion before you go back to the UK by June, and when you return, you can either return with a 90-days Non-Imm-O again, but also on a 60-days Tourist Visa, and from there do the extension or, for the later, the conversion to a 90-days Non-O. Money 400K in a Thai Bank account is required, and you said you are complying with.

So actually everything is a question of correct timing

you can convert the 60+30 days tourist visa to a 90-days Non-Imm-O based on being over 50, at most (not every one) immigration offices. If you find it unable to open a bank account on a tourist visa, this might be a hindrance, as the Immigration might want to see the proof of a certain sum of money having been transferred from abroad, to be able to apply for the conversion. A catch-22 situation. You would fare much better if you applied for the Non-Imm-O/A in the UK. This will allow you amble time to fulfill the financial requirements

no, he should make his new yearly extension under the old and still existing address in CW, then a week later he moves and must file TM30 in Nonthaburi

do the extension first, and complete the TM30 and change of address after or on March 31. If the lease is not sufficient and you cannot self register, hand the Immigration officer the phone number of your landlady and have them tell her about her duties & obligations. It helped in my case.

So their advice to apply for the 60-days Covid19 extension has probably a reason, they want to ensure you do not „waste“ the “60 days family visit extension”now, as you can only do it ONCE on a previous entry. They actually might wish to help you to push your stay permit date further into the future, since they obviously know that you cannot meet the financial requirement for another “1-year extension of stay based on marriage”. They offer you to do the Covid19 extension for as long as it is possible to aquire