I took my child daughter here to Thailand for a vacation. We don't come here too much and get very confused about visa situations. We are Swiss nationals, we came in with normal 30 days visa. My daughter 6 years old was born here in Bangkok to my ex girlfriend who is Norway/Thai dual national, she happened to be in Thailand for a month so we met up this week, she told me I can extend my visa with my daughter's Thai birth certificate to 90 days non immigration type. She still carrys the original Thai birth certificate, even though my daughter has absolutely no Thai resemblence.

My ex girlfriend asked a few travel agents and also called immigration office, but we get even more confused about all sorts of different answers. Then a Swiss friend in Bangkok introduced me to this special visa website to ask my question. I hope someone knows the answer, so I and my little daughter do not have to fly to Penang or other nearby points to get 30 more days. We plan to stay till Dec 15, then head back to Hong Kong where we live now.

Based on your information so far, you cannot convert to a non-immigrant visa. Your daughter was born in Thailand and is a Thai citizen because her mother is also Thai. You could convert to a non-immirgant visa if you were living with the child And are the legal father. For that you have to petition the court to be recognised as the legal father. As you were not married to the mother, you are currently not the legal father of the child, untill you legitimize the child as yours. Without that immigration will not convert to a non-immigrant visa. (You would also need an incoem of 40,000 a month OR 400,000 in the bank in Thailand for an extension of stay from immigration)

Based on the birth certificate you could however get a 60 day extension of stay, if you visit immigration with the child, the birth certificate and the childs household registration book. Since the child is not living in Thailand, that might be a problem or not depending on the local immigration office.

Based on the birth certificate you could however get a 60 day extension of stay, if you visit immigration with the child, the birth certificate and the childs household registration book. Since the child is not living in Thailand, that might be a problem or not depending on the local immigration office.

Thank you Mario. I guess I was confused about 90 day non immigrant visa with extension 60 more days more. But both end up same to 90 days, and it will cover our stay up to Dec 15. So I do not need to get non immigration visa, just try to extend 60 days with daughter's Thai birth certificate. About the house registration, my ex girlfriend and the mother of the child said she remembered some peice of paper like that in her Thai mother's house, she will try to locate it. Anyway, we try to extend my visa 60 more days with or without the house registration.

If that doesn't work, we take a trip on Air Asia to Penang to get the 60 day tourist visa. Thank you.

Your daughter doesn't need a visa.

The household registration book belongs to the landlord/house owner and he/she will have that book.

You will have to apply at the immigraiton office for where the child is registered, unless proof of living elsewere.

As said only you need a visa - there is no overstay charge due for any child regardless of nationality. So a quick trip for a tourist visa across the border to Vientiane or Savannakhet overnight would work. With daughter here as a foreign national and the 60 day being to visit with a Thai do not believe that extension will be granted but nothing lost but time if you want to try - have her and mother with you.

You should get a Thai passport for your daughter. You and the child's mother would have to sign the application for the passport. Application would also require her birth certificate and house book entry.

With a Thai passport she could enter Thailand as a Thai and Switzerland with her Swiss passport.