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It's a b1 or b2 or b1/2 visitor visas plus business purposes ...

it's valid for 10 yrs and it's a multiple entry visa which means once the the visa is issued, u can enter states at any time in 10 yrs and stay there up to 6 months ...Sometimes the immigration officers stamp 3 -months- stay on the passport which is based on the visitors ' situation and varies from person to person...

10 yrs validity +multiple entry visas + 6 months -stay

My husband ( filipino) , my daughter and I (Chinese) all got that visas and applied for the visa at USA embassy ( Bangkok)

I'm not a strong Buddhist and I consider Buddhism as a way to live my life ...I don't pray everyday and visit temple once a yr before Chinese New Year...however, my daughter and husband are Roman Catholic , they go to church some times on Sunday ....iv been with them a few times and I found out both religions shared a lot in common.which means the teachings tell us to be good bla bla bla........etc.....however, in my husband's point of view , money isn't important and God gives him everything, which I believe I need make money by myself and nobody gives me anything unless I work for it, money is extremely of importance ........thus, this is the only thing we aren't on the same page.... U could follow both religions and draw the positive sides and enjoy ur life .

I love hanging out with Americans ...they are easy going and friendly instead of being reserved ....

Those Americans I have met aren't superficial or aggressive or hostile ..

my husband and I have lived in LA for 10 yrs and finished master degree there ...I could say they are a lot better than some bogan elsewhere ...well, I'm Chinese and I love American and its culture .

"...the majority of people here seem to be saying that the cut-off age is 15 years old (for children requiring a visa)... and some of the posters have personal experience of this."

I don't think that is what is being said.

They do require a visa, BUT they will not be fined for overstay. Their passports will be marked with an overstay.

In the past this was not an issue.

Will it be in the future?

Anyone who tells you that it's going to be the same is guessing. 50-50 on whether they turn out to be right, or not.

Agree....

I got my daughter a Non- O visa before those visa crack down as we travel frequently and hate to see that stamp saying " kids who are under 15 and overstay in country don't get fined " on her passport , we prefer to follow the immigration laws and stay away from trouble ....

I have no idea why ppl kept complaining about the visa stuff here working as a teacher ..

It seems pretty easy for me to get all the papers done.( B.Ed ,and transcript , the rest of supporting documents were prepared by school itself . First thing the school has done was to send my B. Ed and transcript to ministry of education for approval , and then they took all of these papers to immigration , this is the way how I was issued Non- B visa (3 month ) from my 2 month tourist visa first ,( shortly we have done 1 year non -B visa extension before the previous 3 month Non -B visa went expired ), then I attended thai culture and language short course (2 days plus 5000฿ ) and got a certificate , the next was to give this certificate to my school and I got my teacher 's ' license after 3 months. Meanwhile , I got a medical certificate form a clinic and was issued a work permit ......

Iv been here for 8 yrs and I have never struggled with this non - b visa which is pretty easy to be processed with proper papers ....

I got one in December 2013 for my three years old daughter ...it's better to have one if u travel frequently around the world.....eventually we still need process visa for our kids to stay legally before they turn 14,if we can do it now, why not?

I have three bangkok bank debit visa cards and two visa cards issued by bank of Ayuthaya . I use debit cards issued by bank of Ayuthaya to book tickets on airasia all the time and I can use all of them in other countries with no,problems at all....

I have been celebrating christmas for more than 20 years since I was a little girl coz my dad's company has been doing business with american as partnership group...well, we celebrate it for fun and interaction with other people.....ppl get together , have high tea party and Xmas dinner sharing ideas, feeling and happiness .....after I got married with my husband who is a rock n roll Roman Catholic , we do it every year for fun instead of religious purpose ...and now my daughter is converted to catholic , I m still a not strong Buddhist ....we still do Xmas for fun and they never go to church,......celebrating foreign festive isnt forcing culture.......Thais ' tradition still exist and nobody can stop tradition....even though I v been raised in a western way and live my rest of life in this way, part of me is still Chinese .....don't be paranoid and hold no xenophobia, let 's just have some fun and stay cool...

I agree with few ppl 's comment above ...one thing we know for sure is that they accept the undercutting wages without fighting for more benefits coz they are afraid of being sacked or even the employer wouldn't pay more to offer those positions ....

the reality is unemployment rate is pretty high and tons of ppl are jobless in Philippines, thus, filipino usually don't complain too much as long as they v got jobs even though they got paid less as they have no choice but suck it up and bite the bullet .

Filipino teachers got a big family back to their country and they have to send money to support their close and distant relatives whoever they are ..I v been so moved coz we do anything for ourselves only and enjoy days alone without caring about parents , friends and relatives...however, they have been doing this for one another until now ...

I guess there is no serious racism to them ..but i got an advice for filipino teachers which is they gonna focus on accent while speaking English .....it sounds harsh for me.. I had taken conversation management and accent reduction while we took a vacation in Los Angeles for a couple of months ...I didn't have any Chinese accent while speaking English ( foreigners told me so )as I have been raised up in a westernized family in china and got lots of western touch since I was younger..

I'm teaching Chinese here on my BE degree coz the school said they don't want my Master degree which means they gonna pay me more if they hire me with my master degree.....so my monthly salary is 80,000฿ plus 9,000฿ housing allowance ... Few Chinese I knew got at least 30,000฿ in private school..

My husband is filipino and he obviously doesn't get paid as much as I did...let's say just 25,000 ++++

Few Filipinos who have been working here for ten yrs could get more than 40,000฿ ...

As ASEAN is using English as a standard and as Thailand agreed to this, and to train Govt sufficiently, er, by now actually- all immigration and related staff should be fluent , seems the OP has a valid point.

Even Chinese speak English.

I agree and as I said, all the form I have had to deal with are in Thai and English so you would expect to be able to use either. I did suggest perhaps a year ago to a very nice lady at Samui immigration that the TM. 7 should also be available in Russian but was told that that would cause more problems than it solved. Upon reflection, I think she was right.

Chinese speak English??

What rot. They may in all the large tourist destinations but 350ks inland where I am, fat chance. I need an interpreter every time I go to immigration.

I'm Chinese , I have been speaking English for 20 years and I m 27 yrs old now, which means I stopped speaking Chinese after 7 years old.....I agree that there isn't a great number of Chinese speaking English pretty well ..however, Ppl who deal with foreigners in all kinds of business area including immigrants bla bla bla have high English proficiency ..

Btw, we told our daughter to learn thai diligently and she studies in a bilingual school instead of international school coz we live here and she was born here...we need socialize with local ppl and know more about culture / tradition ..well,.Thailand has a stronger economic relatively and learning more English can definitely benefit business a lot ......

We know the definition of official language and mother tongue ........ppl here just suggest Thais work harder on English instead of telling Thais must make English as your official language ,,,,,looking around neighboring countries , how do they sort out this issue especially for those gvt and organizations which need deal with foreigners....?

I believe English is still the number one language for all the nations in the world to communicate effectively as the globalization is doing pretty fast and great and English is taught everywhere ....the most widely used language is English even though English doesn't have the most speakers......I'm Chinese anyway, I speak Chinese with my parents only coz they didn't learn English during their generation. However, for my family, we totally speak English a lot more than Chinese only if I teach my kid to speak her second mother tongue and my husband is American - Filipino ,which means we totally give up learning filipino language and my kid still Must learn thai in the school......

I do hope immigration officers could work harder on English and they have to be aware that not all the Chinese could speak thai well....I can't speak thai very well coz I don't use thai in my job and family ,and do your guys think I couldn't speak English coz I'm Chinese and u just can explain everything in thai to me instead of English ? Mark this, I'm a foreigner as well.....as ASEAN is widely awared here and English is your guys official language too....

Hi everyone,

My husband, daughter2.5 yrs old and I will visit sydney soon. We prepare 5000 dollars ,160000฿,for the whole trip including hotels30000฿,tickets from air Asia 65000฿ and the rest of money will be spent in sydney. Do you think it's okey to stay there for 13 days?

Any tips?

Thanks a lot..

Cheers..

I always have travel bugs!!

Well, my husband is filipino and I'm Chinese ....Lately we have been processing Non O visa for our daughter who is 2.5 years old....no one has told us to get her a visa ....we just feel like doing it in a proper way ....

Our company is a huge group, which means they do all the documents for foreigners ' visa......Something made me pissed off was immigration at chaewattana need the tax of all the thai employees ....My company has asked officer millions of time about this issue coz its impossible to offer thousands of paper of tax for immigration...there are 1000 foreigners and 5000 Thais in our company ...

Hence, we got All the supporting papers for my daughter's non O visa but tax of thai employees......

Bloody hell.......my company and I are confused and we decided to drop off doing this non O visa...

By the way, we do traveling a lot, like 2-3 times a year , we v been to many countries and never had problems with my daughter' s visa ...no fine,,,,

We may try it again next time coz one of my colleague has done a non o visa for his son last year and at that time they didn't ask the stupid thousands of papers of Thais tax....it's not my company can't do it...it's just a huge paper work for them to do it.....I'm waiting for a new policy next year...hahahahah...what a hell.......

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I always have travel bugs!!

Well, I just share what I know about the visa for baby born in Thailand to non Thai citizen based on my experience.......pls get more info. From your embassy and immigration in terms of your condition .....

When we fly from china to Thailand , we did go to thai embassy to get a tourist visa -60 days for my daughter to enter Thailand , coz Chinese immigration requires ppl to get a visa no matter where we go ......after that, we don't do visa extension as I mentioned above, thai immigration won't fine u when u get out of Thailand ..

When we fly from Singapore/ Australa/ USA/ Philippines to Thailand, we do get her a visa on arrival in the airport and pay 1000฿+ 1 photo ,....it always works......

Now she is in the school , to avoid a long queue for visa on arrival, we are doing her a non- o visa ...

I guess I v explained pretty clearly .....

Ur guys need dig more ..

Your baby dôesnt need a Visa to stay in Thailand until 14 years old literally

every time ur guys get out of Thailand, immigration in airport doesn't think your baby live here illegally and u won't pay any coins ,,,,,,,when ur baby enters Thailand and gets a stamp as other adults , he can stay in Thailand as long as he wants until the day your guys would travel to other countries , things repeat the same as mentioned above . ( airport - your destination - back to Thailand - immigration ( passport control ) - stamp- bkk city - airport- immigration - stamp - your destination )

Well, take it easy and it really works in this way .....I have a 2.5 years old baby girl and we travel 2 times a year to other countries like China, Philippines, Singapore , Australia and HK ..she has no non- immigrant visa yet , but my husband and I are on non- b + work permit for 7 years....My daughter and I are Chinese passport holder while my husband has filipino passport ....

Since my daughter has enrolled a billion school lately , we have been doing a Non- O visa for her , which the school helped us process all the documents .....student's visa will do as well.........The reason why we got her a legal visa was we traveled to other countries quite a lot and those embassies think she could get the visas easily if she holds a legal thai visa in Thailand ......As your baby is a polish national , I don't think u need worry too much about it while traveling ......

Hope it helps u.........cheers.....

I think most thais use this term loosely ..no offense at all.

However,,I feel kinda or sorta insulted to be called Asian instead of chinese when I was traveling in USA and Some European countries.....I know it didn't make any sense .....I'm just nagging here and i could understand this situation coz iv been there ...Actually, I don't care about it ... "Farang" is a simple word for Thais to describe all the whites without offenses

I always have travel bugs!!

Exactly, paranoia and control.....

I always have travel bugs!!

those people who have stayed in Thailand on retirement visa and apply for a visa to China need provide your original passport, application form for visa application both V2011A and V2011B forms, photo, return ticket and hotel reservation in China, and your thai visa.

Those people who are staying here on Non-B visa need provide some papers as stated above, just check it out.

All the nationals re required round way ticket and non -b visa. and work permit.

Are you sure about that? If it's true then it means that no-one living here on a retirement visa can get a visa to China unless they go back to their home country first. The notes for the application form only say you need a visa that shows you are resident in Thailand. It doesn't mention a work visa at all.

Sorry. not all the people need it...I only know people who are working here need thoses papers to apply the visa..in your case, Recently, I heard that most overseas Chinese embassies and cosulates require that passport holders from a third country must provide their resident permit or work visa to apply for a China visa. Hope it can help u

I'im Chinese who have been living here for ages. My husband is Filipino but carries US passport as well and he also needs a visa To enter China. What we have done was to submit the following papers:

his work permit, non-B visa, copy of the first page of passbook which contains 50,000฿in the bank account(not all the nationals are required but filipino! It's better to bring and u can borrow money from your friend if u don't have enough ,as long as u can have fun there) !application form a&b , Photos, Round way ticket, Marriage certificate(I just brought it with me, it's unnecessary) ! 1200฿ for many nationals , Thai citizen is charged 1000฿ only, US citizen is charged 4500฿. Hence, he used Filipino passport to apply for visa coz its far more cheaper..

It takes 3 working days to get the visa, however, u can choose rush service and embassy would charge the service fee by extral 300฿ only. The office hour is from 9am---12am am only

, pls get there ASAP. If u choose the rush service, u can get the visa at 3pm at the same day u d apply ...

All the nationals re required round way ticket and non -b visa. and work permit.

If u don't have thoses qualifications and u can fly to HK, anyway flying to HK is much cheaper,7000฿