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If the child is born by a Thai mother in Thailand, the child will (automatically) be a Thai citizen. To my knowledge also a child born by a Thai mother in a foreign country can be Thai citizen. If you are not married to the mother, you are not legal father, even if your name is on the Thai birth-certificate. To be legal father outside of marriege either a DNA-test is needed, when the child an infant or toddler, or an approval at the local Amphor district-office when the child is 7 years or older; at the Amphor-office both parents and the child needs to be present. To obtain foreign – and thereby dual – citizenship, you will normally need to be approved father (legal married, or DNA, or by Amphor-approval) and follow the procedure from your home country with legalization of various documents. It can sometimes be little complicated, depending of the country's demand for documentation, especially if not legally married.

Banana has a good variety of laptops from affordable prices from around 15k baht, for example an Asus laptop with Solid State (no moveable parts) hard-drive.

If you register the car in your wife's name, you officially have donated or gifted the car to your wife. You only need a confirmed address in Thailand – a letter from the local immigration office – to register a car in your own name. First class insurance – normally on new cars – can be limited to two named drivers with a discount. If you are either named driver or the car "just" have an insurance, it covers when you are driving with a valid driver's license; remember that after three month in Thailand you need a Thai driver's license. If you but a new car a first class insurance for first year will normally be included or offered, there is also often a variety of insurance companies to choose from. I use Virayah Insurance – because the first car I bought second hand in Thailand had that insurance, and I've been satisfied with the company so far. If it's the best I cannot say. My local Virayah-agent sorts everything for me with annual tax payment and mandatory insurance at no extra service-charge, so I can renew my insurance and pay tax in one go, without a visit to the Land Transport Office.

They don't have an app for digital wallet, and it will take (too) long time to make one. Furthermore, not all have or can use a smartphone, suitable for such an app. Their voters are getting impatient to have the election campaign promise fulfilled...

You need the 800k baht deposit at least two month prior to application for extensions of stay, and three month after approval, whereafter the deposit can be reduced to not under 400k baht until two months before next application for extension of stay.

Probably more both wise and important to distribute some money to here than in a digital wallet...

Sorry to say it, but Uncle Tu was on the right track talking about "quality tourists" instead of mass tourism...

At Samui Immigration you just need a slip with your address, nothing else. When I was rejected last year I brought a print of my TM47 from the online application. The usual lady on the ground floor took it and said that it was not needed, just the address, which I from old time already has in my passport. She carefully saved the paper, so someone getting a photo copy might have my filled and useless TM47-form on the back of the copy...

Thanks. Yes, I was aware of that, I could have done the same mistake...

Arrived on July 12th so has been here 31 days, which is 1 day overstay, 2 days overstay today.

Depending of you local Land Transport Office. My local office does not issue International Driver's Permit, only the Province's main office does that, and I have to go there in person. And even I'm registered in a yellow house book and has the pink ID-card, which is enough at the local office for renewing my DL, the head office wish a documentation letter of address from Immigration.

Online-reporting seems to need to done before the actual expiry date; I once did mine on the expiry date and was rejected. You can use a calendar, phone or computer to remind you when to do it; old-fashioned paper and pen still works fine for me...

A very kind owner...👍

You most likely cannot find a "visa-agent" on Samui, if you don 't have all the required needs in order and just wish help with the application, which some of the visa-run companies does.

It got nothing to do with me, I'm replying to another forum-member's question...

As @Tropicalevo says...👍

Yes, missing TM30 is a well known issue, if you are not aware of the importance of it – I've also tried to be rejected once, when been outside Surat Thani Province. If you stay outside the Surat Thani province, you need to submit a new TM30-form, which is a notification of a foreigner staying at an address (appartement, hotel, house, etc.). Samui Immigration is little special and strict with this, while immigrations in other provinces accept stay outside the province and even travelling abroad with a re-enter permit. You need your landlord or owner of the property where you stay, to fill a TM30-form each time you have been registered outside Surat Thani Province or have left the country. It is the duty of the host. If you rent an appartement or a house, or own you home, you might yourself be the host and responsible to TM30 notifications of foreigners staying at the address. TM30 can be submitted electronically HERE, where you also can register as host. To register as host you need to upload some documents, depending of you are the owner and is registered in a house book, or you are a renter and therefore need copies your landlord's house book and ID-card etc.

Because the don't get asylum, so the so-called asylum seekers heads for better destinations, whenever possible for them.

It's really depending of where you live and your lifestyle; i.e., what you need of transportation. Some places, like Bangkok, public transportation might be better than having your own car. Second hand car are relative expensive to buy as maintenance labour is cheap. It's of course a question of economy, but as a new smaller car can be bought from around 500,000 baht including warranty, it's worth considering that, instead of paying 300,000 baht or more for a 10-year old vehicle. It's relative easy to get a car serviced; relative easy, as it's again a question of where you live. In a village near Nakhon Nowhere a brand name repair shop, like for example at Toyota shop, might be some distance away. My first owned car in Thailand was an 11-year old second hand and cheap to keep running, using a local repair shop for service. At a point the age of the car made some more major service soon necessary, so I decide to shift to a brand new car. I got one third of my initial second hand price back for a car that I've used for eight years. If you live somewhere, where it's essential with a car for, for example shopping, it might be cheaper to own one than paying taxi or song thaew every time, if those are available at all. It's quite simple math to calculate the costs of public transportation and taxis compared to buying a car; fuel use with for example 10 kilometres per litre; insurance and tax, with can be everything between mandatory insurance and road tax for around 1,500 baht per year, to a first class insurance that might end up close to 20,000 baht per year; service for around 5,000 baht average per year, but more for an old car. Furthermore, it a question of comfort, and how much one is willing to pay for that. Traffic – and if you are not used to left side driving, chose a car with automatic gear – is also depending of where you drive. However, a car is manyfold more safe than motorbike; more than 70% of fatal accidents are people on motorbike and around 8% are pedestrians. Despite of the chaotic traffic, Bangkok is actually one of the safest places in fatal accidents, while Rayong are among the top of fatal accidents. However, fatal numbers might be calculated different – dead on the spot only, or dead after 30 days later included – placing other destinations high on fatal the list, for example Koh Samui. I've been driving in Thailand since 2001 – both up rural north and on fatal Koh Samui – and so far survived. Personally I would find it uncomfortable to live here without a car.

Many, if not most, passport offices have a same day delivery in the office. There is a surcharge for this service, it was 1,000 baht a few years ago.. Leaving on a Thai passport is correct, you don't need to have entered Thailand on the same, as your son is Thai citizen and renewing his passport domestically.

There is to my knowledge one sanctuary and four places with elephant rides.

Just like living in the past on Samui; many people wants the good old time back, here is some of it...😉

I presume that it's going be a hard job to both change image and make Pattaya physically family friendly...

I presume that it's going be a hard job to both change image and make Pattaya physically family friendly...

I presume that it's going be a hard job to both change image and make Pattaya physically family friendly...