Anonymous participant if there is no contact I'd assume you can just file through the courts . If he isn't a part of their life and doesn't want to be then it should be easy .

Hello

Not sure if I can be of any help .

I have two kids from another person and before we moved here to Thailand I had to ask their dad for permission . He agreed at first . But then when I didn't agree to meet alone due to domestic violence in the past ( he went to prison for four years due to violence on me and the kids ) anyways . He then said no . I had to take him to court . He then didn't show up to any court date . It took five months for the judge to agree for us to move . And then she's the one who gave me the certified court paper to leave .

I had to have that paper to get passports as well .

My kids are 13 and 11 and I've had sole legal physical custody of them since 2014 .

He never paid child support didn't have a relationship with them either .

But by law you still have to ask permission . And you will have to show that proof to immigration .

I even had to show the documents at the airport because my husband's last name is different than the older two kids .

It's a lot of work . But I'd say contact the court house in your area they can help you

@AllSabai *****

I think the only thing that benefits us right now is having a baby born here . And my 11 year old sees a specialist here as well .

And now this company is going to help my husband with visa 😀 once this is all taken care of I'll feel so much better I love it here !!

@AllSabai *****

yup that's what was so upsetting for us . It's like the places pick n choose who they want to have what . We went to Cambodia and told that . We went to an agent in Bangkok told the same thing.

But then heard stories of families actually getting by with just the main DTV holder .

We can afford it but don't wanna transfer investments and all that .

This is where we got all confused .

Because it states you only have to show 500k baht . But it's actually for each individual person .

So my family is 5 people . 75k USD .

We are in the process of the business visa.

But yes you have to show 16k in the bank for those three months . They are changing things left n right

Howuch did you need In Your bank account ? 500k baht for each person or just theain holder of the dtv ?

My husband and I work remote from us companies . We just hook our stuff up to the router in our condo . Works just fine . I'm a social media marketing manager so when I make posts I just schedule them for USA Time

@Biff ******

yeah that's what I think we're going to do. The agent man we spoke to said that the business visa might be our best route to go . Which would be great for my husband he's an engineer . And surrounding countries is where our materials are made . And we want Thailand to be our forever home .

We can pay for the dtv but taking money out of investments just doesn't seem right .

Thank you for the insight . And thanks for not being a jerk . Far to many of them out there .

@Biff ******

that's a great idea . Thank you .we go back to Bangkok tomorrow . Both my daughters see doctors there . One for mental health . And my newborn was born in Bangkok so we do have some leeway. We just wanna do things right .

@Thomas *******

we were thinking of going there . But we literally got our newborns CRBA like three days before we planned on leaving and we already had plane tickets etc .

So when we get back to Thailand were hoping it all runs smoothly . We heard people saying you only get 30 days now . But from our understanding that hasn't been passed yet .

We get a lot of harsh comments about us coming here without the dtv originally . But we came here to look for places see what we liked etc . Then I had my baby early so we got an apartment for a year lease already . And we were super hyped for the DTVs then we got hot with we all need the funds . Fingers crossed it all works out !