Mario2008

You can only import your household items duty free if you are on an extension of stay for 1 year and have a workpermit. it must be the first extension of stay you are on and during the first 6 months of your stay. Look at cutoms website.

Without a Thai passport the child will be considered a foreign national and needs to get a visa if they plan to stay in Thailand. Also the birthcertificate might need to be legalised in England before the amphur will accept it. Do it in London.

You don't switch from a non-immigrant O to a non-immigrant B. It is just the ground on which you were allowed to enter Thailand originaly.

What you do is ask for an extension of stay, either on the grounds of being married to a Thai or employment. This you can always change. If you go for an extension based on employment you can always apply for an extension of stay beased on marriage when you lose your job.

Not sure about your Thai difforce certificate. The embassy is to certify about you not being married outside of Thailand, the Thai government should check if you are married inside Thailand. But better just call the embassy about that.

Translations must be certified by the translator, you can send them to a translation agency and pick them up when you go to your embassy and have the other papers translated.

For entry into Thailand it would be 6 months, not 3 months.

This link gives you a few options:

http://www.seat61.com/Thailand.htm#How%20to%20book

You can contact the Thai embassy in London and apply for a Thai passport for him. Since the mother is Thai, the child is by law also Thai. The rpoces is pretty dtraight forward. Just llok on the embassies website.

With the Thai passport you don't need a Visa for him. Leave the UK on the UK-passport and enter Thailand on the Thai passport. At check-in show both passports.

You can always apply for a re-entry permit at Bangkok Airport itself.

You can get a workpermit on a non-O, if you don't qualify for a non-O extension you can still ask for an extesion of stay to one year based on your employment.

As ubonjoe said, if you are on a non-O based on retirement it is not possible to give a definite answer. It is allowed, but in practise not all labour offices will alow it.

No. You have a mulitple entry visa and must leave the country every 90 days.

Edit:

Only option to avoid 90 day border runs is to apply for an extension of stay for 1 year. If you meet the qualifications.

Some embassies allow you to apply for an embassy letter by mail. Not sure of the Australian embassy though.

What do you think was in that sealed enveloppe? I bet immigration ask the local police to confirm you are living with the misses.

If you decide to go for a PR then the marriage visa is the only option. For the OP the retirement option is the best, as he is already living from his pension. The retirement option would give him more security, as he wouldn't be dependend on the misses and it is also easier to get.

Sole custody is not asked for, family relationship is, but the main thing is that the child has to live with you.

The problem is that the 60 day allowed to visit his children is not considered a non-immigrant visa. So yes, he has to make a visa run and apply for a non-B.

Read the original posting. "I am an English girl with Thai boyfriend".

The boyfriend is Thai, not the mother and that makes all the difference.

For Thai nationals dual nationality is not an issue wether, minor or not. The Thai law states that you must choose, but doesn't specify what will happen if you don't choose. This means not choosing doesn't have consequenses. Many Thai adult have dual nationality.

Also note that German law allowes dual nationality under certain circumstances.

As you said, it appears to be the rule at this moment. No argument there from me.

Maybe at Jomtien, but what is going to happen if there is a new chief at that office next week. Can you be sure he will not impose the rules as published?

IIf I understand correctly from other threads, the foreigner must prove that they earn at least 40K baht per month, with or without the wife's help... and pay an appropriate amount of tax in Thailand. Is this correct?

No. For income earned within Thailand you/your wife must show tax receipts. For income from abroad you need a letter from your embassy stating your income and you don't ned to pay tax over that in Thailand.

Departure level, before you actualy go through immigration, on the left side.

No problem.

It depends on your visa. The embassy/consulate will first give you a single non-immigrant visa for 90 days.Once you get a one year extension of your visa, they can apply for an extension of their non-immigrant O.

http://www.immigration.go.th/nov2004/2notice/rtp606EN.pdf

You 7.7 or 7.8, your family 7.10

The childs mother is Thai, that means the child has Thai nationality. Just apply for a Thai passport for the child. Upon exiting present the Thai passport and at checkin at the airport both passport. When you come back present the Thai passport again, as that shows he doesn't need a visa.

For passport application: http://www.mfa.go.th/web/473.php?id=3167

There are several locations where you can apply.

A workpermit gives you the right to work for a specified employer in a specified function. Being a teacher doesn't mean you can work at all schools with your WP. For every school you would need a WP.

The interview states the folowing:

1. It is not allowed to work on to work for a school on the WP for another school.

This is correct, but the person who asked the question could add the second school to the WP. The labour offical just states that it is not possible to work for 2 schools.

2. If you are retired you are not allowed to work and can't apply for a WP. Not even for voluntering.

Seems that is no longer true.

3. You can do volunteer work for tourist police and immigration police because it is helping the government and only short time, not long time.

That argument is total nonsense. Under the alien labour act an exemption would require a royal decree.

4. The price of the new WP will be 20,000.

The new price has not been decided upon. 20,000 is the maximum that can be asked for and the WP will be valid for a maximum of 2 years, but under the old rules it was 10,000 for 1 year. And they only charged 3,100.

That is why I'm not impressed with the statements of this labour offical.

I would agree that tourist- and immigration police volunteers don't need a WP, as the labour department follows that line all over the country. I just think there is no provision for it, without a royal decree.

It means that you have to be on an extension of stay on a non-immigrant visa. It doesn't need to be a non-B, a non - O is also fine. As long as you have a work permit there is no problem. A volunteer can also ship duty free.