Dear respected members of forum,
We've just got out of mandatory hotel quarantine like a week ago, a family arrived from Malaysia (we were expat family in Malaysia and my contract had finished, now we are back to where my in-laws live)
My wife had been accepted to continue her master degree studio, she has received Ed visa
My child got 90-day non-imm visa which the university helps to include as accompany-family member
I, was supposedly to receive the same visa as my child since i will be accompany my wife while she is finishing her studies but instead Thailand embassy issued me a normal 30-day tourist visa which can be extended once (report due next 2 weeks)
What are my options to accompany my wife and child while she studies here? I run online business and my in-laws are all living in Thailand (but none of them are Thais). I do not intend to leave Thailand alone, once in every 60 days or so just to re-apply for another tourist visa and Thailand Pass, then undergo mandatory hotel quarantines all over again. I also have no plan to physically work in Thailand momentarily, but focus to homeschool my child.
I believe liason officer from the university will help to take care my child 90-day visa but i dont think they will help me find an alternate visa for my case. They did issue the same letter of request so all of us would have gotten longer-stay visas but unfortunetely my case was only given a tourist visa after i refused to pay certain "fee" for a 90-day non-imm visa application (unofficially, off the book) while i was submitting my visa applications. I saw the visas fee, but i was asked almost triple the cost just for myself. Luckily he did not ask my child the same amount of money but went by the book instead.
Please help. I need to stay in Thailand throughout the period of my wife finishes her master degree, i can leave the country once a year (maybe) then return with renewed visa. Is there another type of visas that i can apply? What are the requierements? like deposit THB 800.000 in local bank for three months? What do i need to prepare?
Thank you for any advices