Hi all,

I've got a B visa, my daughter has an O visa. I'll be getting a work permit in the next few days, which I presume lets me live and stay here withou having to do 90 days runs and all that. What about my 3yr old daughter? Will I have to arrange something for her or what? Anyone who has done something ismilar lately, your input owuld be appreciated.

My company will organise all this for me, but I just want to be "in the know" myself, in case they make a mess of it...... not that things every got messed up in Thailad ...... jokes aside, I have every faith, I'd just like to be "in the know" as they say!

Work permit does not allow you to stay in Thailand at all - if you also obtain a one year extension of stay using a TM.7 from Immigration you can stay in Thailand for that period only doing 90 day address reports. Once you have that extension of stay your daughter can obtain a matching extension of stay.

Once you have that extension of stay your daughter can obtain a matching extension of stay.

Are you cetain? I understood that children of 14 years and under do not need a visa and therefore can never overstay.

Everyone requires a visa or exempt for entry and to stay they require an extension of stay. Children are currently not charged overstay but they would have it marked in there passport on exit. As the fee is only 1,900 baht per year it would make sense to me to be legal.

I see from older posts your wife is Thai. That should make your daughter eligble for Thai nationality as well (but she'd need a Thai birth certificate and Thai passport issued by the Thai embassy from the country she was born in - if she was born overseas).

However, given she hasn't entered using a Thai passport, your daughter is subject to the same immigration rules as other foreigners.

As such, get your work to organise an extension of stay here in Thailand for your daughter based on your extension of stay here (for work).

Thanks for the replies everyone.

This concurs pretty much with what the HR department at work said.

RE. the Thai nationality for my daughter.

In time, I will look into this, but in the interim I intend to keep her as an Irish citizen where she will be afforded all the international privledges and protections that I do (incidentally, my wife holds dual Irish / Thai citizenship). At this point I am not willing to forfeit her Irish citizenship.

Thanks everyone.