@George *********

If you have no passport at all: you get no visa. And you can not even fly here.

If you have an old Iran passport, that is not expired, aka invalid: you can fly. If you need a visa, you have to check with the Thai embassy in Germany. If you do not need one, you can either come for 30 days and extend that (when here) for another 30 days, or if your nationality/country qualifies: you can come here for 60 days and extend for another 30 days.

Then again: if you have the funds/money and a passport, you can acquire a multiple entry tourist visa (METV), with leaving the country, and or extensions, you can stay up to 9month in Thailand.

@Peter *******

He already speaks: Farsi, German and as you see on his typing: English. Thai is the second most simplest language on the planet, after Japanese. You should give it a try. /facepalm

@Andre ********

Via showing his tax declarations/tax returns from the previous years.

@Henrik ****

There is no German "alien passport".

@Henrik ****

He can't. As he has no passport.

@Von *****

Because a German Passport is nearly impossible to get?

- He is a refugee.

- That does not entitle him for a passport.

For a passport you need citizenship. He he does not get that either. To get citizenship, he needs to speak German, on a high level. Has to work, and except for "refugee status" he needs "permanent residency status" first. Being marries to a German might help, but not much.

Why do you not have a Thai citizenship? Oh? Same problem!

So, the only thing which could work, is: he gets a Persian passport from the Persian embassy in Germany. So at least he can travel. Which is unlikely, as the Persian government hates refugees that fled the country.

So, he could try to migrate to France. He could get - perhaps - a French citizenship over a course of 5 years. Which again requires to be close to fluent in French.

There is perhaps one or two countries in the world that gives you "freed citizenship", just because you are a refugee. And Germany is definitely not one of them. If we grant Asylum, then that is first of all only for the time you are in danger. You get an ID card, but no passport.

I do not know the exact rules, as they got changed just recently. But: you have to be about 10 years in Germany, and fulfill a sh***load of requirements to achieve it. And then it still takes several years until it is granted.

What you think why it is so hard to get citizenship in Thailand? Oh mistaken already. It is not hard. It is 1oo times more easy than getting one in Germany! (* I am German *)

I do not know a single Thai who has German citizenship. They all only have "permanent residency status" - hence: a Thai Passport and a German ID card.

@Eva ********

Hotel address. Make the contract. Visa fees are not refundable, in case the visa gets rejected. Other way: visit the embassy if that is possible and ask in person. However: that does not make you safe from what ever officer is doing the paper work is deciding.

What I mean: simple things like the contract, you should do. One risk less on the table to waste $400 for a rejected visa application.

@Ora ******

They actually are as clear glass.

@Marty ********

The 90 day reporting is a little bit "unclear" as e.g. the LTR visa does not require it. OTOH, as long as it is not stated otherwise, I assume you need to do 90 day reports. It is just logically.

@Ora ******

Stephan Studtmann posted the requirements above. And I'm pretty sure your embassy in your country writes them in your language down just fine, too. /sarcasm