You can get a visa for your kid but be aware you don’t really need one. Children and their parents aren’t penalized for overstays as long as the parents have a proper visa. The child does get an overstay stamp in their passport, but it is not held against them on re-entry.

Eh, report them to Immigration and they will get sorted pretty quickly I imagine.

You might want to join this group btw:

All that being said there are ways for you to stay in country legally long-term (typically an ED visa) if you don't get the DTV and are willing to pay an agent. A bit risky though, especially if you want to travel internationally or change your visa status later to something more legitimate.

If you want to move here permanently I don't recommend it unless you are pulling in 3-4k USD a month, more would be better. You should have some substantial savings too to be safe. There are way too many punters here who are a motorbike crash away from being insolvent because they spend all their money out on the piss and on women.

The next 10-20 years is your prime income earning potential, don't piss it away here. If you are dead set on moving to Thailand retrain and work your way into a remote gig - you will make way more money doing that than pretty much anything you will find in Thailand.

I've been coming here on and off for 20+ years and it gets more expensive by the day. Yes you can live cheaply, potentially just on a retiree check but it will be a quiet/simple life, likely not something somebody in their 20s really wants (regardless of what you THINK you want).

If you are working on base in Japan think very hard before giving up the job - I guarantee you there are 10 people waiting in line for that position and it will be very difficult to find another one like it if you decide Thailand isn't for you long term. If it wasn't for visa issues with my baby mama I'd move back to Japan in a flash, especially if I could find a cushy GS job on base.

Don't flash the cash and you won't have problems. This is especially important if you are in a situation where you need to pay tea money to "resolve" an issue. Dress like a cheap charlie expat and you avoid the vast majority of those kind of issues.

Sure, you can apply for all the jobs you want, in and outside of Thailand. Once you get an offer from a company to work IN Thailand though you (or your employer) need to arrange for a non-B and a work permit which will cancel out the remainder of your DTV.

That bar code is your passport number btw, ends in 114 I believe?

@Nick ******

took about two weeks. After a week I emailed asking about the status and they responded with “We will email you request for further documents.”. They never did though, was approved 3 days later.

I maintain a mailbox in Seattle and used that as my address when I applied for the DTV online via the LA consulate. Same address that was on the bank statements I submitted.

I was in the Philippines when I applied. I probably could have applied at the embassy in Manila but it would have been a PITA for me to travel there to do it at the time.