Trip to Immigration for 1 yr extension for Thai dependent [daughter]

Interested in comments about my experience and hope it may help someone with similar situation.

The requirements listed for a Thai dependent extension to a Non Imm O are

very short, much shorter and easier than for Thai wife.

No financial requirements were needed the last two years by me except for a bank letter

showing a real account existed.

Not so this year.

The lady listed all sorts of shortcomings on my application.

She made me come back another day with the following ...

# = needed last year

# 1/ TM7 Form for extension of stay w photo

# 2/ Birth Certificate of daughter Alyssa

[copy of Thai passport picture page]

# 3/ Passport pages 1, 14, 16, 22

4/ Proof of 400KBaht or equivalent income

5/ Embassy letter verifying pension income

6/ Bank Book pages 1, 7, 8

# 7/ Letter from Bank verifying funds

8/ Marriage Certificate Copy

9/ House book pages for daughter plus 1st page

10/ 2 Pictures of family at home

11/ Copy of Wife ID card

So even though she had many of these things in the thick file

[been here almost 6 years now and married for 5 yrs]

she made me redo many of them.

Also she told me that a 400,000B account [or equivalent income] was now

required. New rule ?

So I did all this and returned two days later.

On the first day there were 18 people ahead of my number. I expected a

multihour wait but I got called in less than an hour with 5 agents working.

But on my return trip, 24 were ahead of me with 5 agents working and

after 2 hours waiting, only 5 people had been processed and the agents then left for lunch.

That is one application completed per 2 hours per agent.

I left to return another day.

Grrrrrrrrrrrr

Edited July 18, 200916 yr by paulfr

The rules changed 25th November . You now need 400,000 Baht in a Thai Bank OR 40,000 Baht Monthly Income.

(5) In the case of a parent, one of parents must have an average annual income of not less than 40,000 baht per month or a money deposit of not less than 400,000 baht for expenses within a year.