ChiangMaiThai

Similar question here. I have searched the UK Gov website but the answer is not clear. My partner is Thai (we are not legally married). I hold a US passport. Our daughter is 10-years old and has both a Thai and US passport. The Mum and Daughter will be going to the UK for 8 days for an event in September. I will not be joining them. Am I required to complete some a letter of consent? If so, does it need to be notarized by a Thai lawyer? Thanks for any information!

Easy tourist visa I believe...

They don't have 20,000 Baht each for overstay. That should make clear their financial situation. And it seems like the majority of people are blind/indifferent to the reality of life for many - maybe most - people in the world. You escape your home country under threat of imminent death for your opinions. You were able to scrounge together enough money for a ticket to Thailand. You then overstay your visa and spend the next 3-4 years living on 6,000 Baht a month or so usually donated by churches. You can't work and if you're caught by immigration police, you're sent to IDC where it is near impossible to complete an asylum application, which requires a full monitor, scanner, printer, Acrobat Pro, Word etc. At the end of it all, you are one of the lucky ones who is accepted into a Western country with a chance at a new life. Thailand says "cool, give us 80,000 Baht or you all go to prison."

When a country like Canada grants a person asylum the tickets are provided.

Nothing unusual. There are currently thousands of people more or less hiding out in Bangkok and surroundings waiting years for asylum applications to be processed by third party countries. If they are caught they are sent to IDC where it is nearly impossible to continue the application process.

I wouldn't expect any outside organization to bypass or overrule Thai law. I would expect there to be an arrangement (especially from developed nations) where the nation state pays the overstay fine of a person to whom they have just granted political asylum. That is logical. However, I am not sure this world operates on logic.

thank you for this

For a few years I have been helping a family of four (non-Thais) apply for asylum in Canada. It looks like their application will soon be approved. Since Thailand has no system to allow refugees to remain in the country legally while their case is being considered, of course they are all on a multi-year overstay. One of them has an expired passport and the home country seems unwilling/unable to provide a new passport. I am wondering if there are any special rules for asylum seekers when it comes time to pay the 20,000 Baht overstay fine? They don't have 80,000 Baht. Surely Thailand doesn't lock up and deport a person to whom the Canadian government has just granted asylum?? Also, unsure of the expired passport. Yes, would be great if I could just email the Canadian embassy, but it is a massive bureaucracy and there is no direct contact email/phone number for anyone dealing with such specific issues. Thank you for any info you may be able to provide!

I'll try to keep this short and quick as possible. My Thai wife has a documented total monthy income of over 100,000 Baht (going back at least 2 years). She has paid a 690,000 Baht deposit on a 4,600,000 Baht house. In August of last year we took a 3 week holiday to the US. During that time she missed her 8,000 Baht payment towards a Thanachart Bank auto loan. She never realized that she missed this payment. The following month she recieved a bill for 8,000 Baht and paid it. She did the same thing for each of the next 5 months. She has applied for the home loan from Bangkok Bank who has told her that normally everything would be fine, but she has 6 consecutive late payments of more than 30 days each on her auto loan. It looks like they will not approve the loan because of this. It appears that Thanachart Bank never notified her of the late payment situation and never sent her a bill for both the prior month and current month's payment. So while she thought that she was paying the current month's bill, she has actually been paying the previous month's bill. If they had simply sent a bill for the prior month's late payment and the current month, she would have had one late payment when she was outside of the country and that would have been the end of it. So now she is in a situation where she is looking at possibly forfeiting a 690,000 Baht deposit and another 300,000 Baht spent at Home Pro to pre-order a kitchen - all because of a simple misunderstanding over an 8,000 Baht a month payment. I'm hoping that someone may be able to point me in the right direction. It seems that Bangkok Bank is extremely strict to deny her the loan based on these late payments - especially considering that she always has significant money in the bank and a steady income. Are there any other banks that will be more understanding? If not, is there any way to encourage Thanachart Bank to remove the negative marks on her credit report? Or has she just lost a million Baht?!? Thanks for any input!