I've been reading other threads on here and feel more confused than when I started...residency is a complex subject!

As we would like to live together in Thailand, I'm trying to find out which routes to residency would be suitable for me.

• I am a thirty year old British man with a Thai wife, living together in the UK since 2006.
  
• We married here in 2006 and our son was born here in 2007.
  
• I know some intermediate Thai vocabulary but not enough to do more than 'get by'. I would be able to learn much more before leaving.
  
• Although I have a fairly well paid job here, I have little money saved and no house to sell.
  
• The company that I work for in the UK has a small office in Thailand.
  

If there's anybody who knows about residency reading this, do you have any advice please?

Many Thanks

Well, residency starts with staying in Thailand for 3 years with uninterupted permissions of stay. So first you have to live in Thailand for years. So you have plenty of time to read up on it.

You can get a non-immigrant O visa on showing your marriage certificate and a copy of her ID. If applying at the consulate in Hull you won't even need that. A non-immigrant will allow you to stay for 90 days, a multiple is also possible.

Your permission to stay can be extended in Thailand at an immigration office if you can show an income of 40,000 (in Thailand or from abroad) a month or a Thai bank account in your name with 400,000 baht in it. (Money has to be there for at least 2 months when you apply for the extension).

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Camerata-s-G...ide-t74654.html

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Camerata-s-G...ide-t74654.html

Thank you; I saw this thread and spent a long time going through. Wasn't sure if it's still the case as it's a couple of years old now. I was also wondering about the most suitable way to reach this (as there is the three years of residence reuirement).