My 13 year old son just went on a trip over the Christmas holidays to Burma and we forgot to get him a re-entry permit before he left. He is a holder of ED visa. They have now cancelled his valid ED visa and told us he needs to leave the country to re-apply. Both my husband and myself have Non-B visas. We have been in Thailand for many years and have always paid and obtained visas for our children, although we have been told this is not needed because they are minors. Does anyone know if this is 100% true? We will leave again in the summer but now with school starting it is very highly inconvenient for us to leave again at the moment, and we don't do visa runs but only 90 reports. What risk do we take if we just leave it and do nothing until this summer? Will it just be that he overstays but with no penalty? Please any advice would be very appreciated.

No overstay for kids under 15, just a little stamp put in the passport annotating that there was an overstay.

That stamp is overstay - what does not happen is the fine is not collected per current policy - so in effect going this summer should be fine.

With documents from school he could get a visa at any of the nearby consulates and then get his extension of stay again. If you are both working and on extension of stay it does not require documents from school only a copy of your extension of stay and child's birth certificate to get a non-o visa.

Dependent upon where you go it could be just and overnight stay applying the morning of one day and getting passport back with visa the next afternoon.

Not sure but you might run into problems with school if he does not have a valid visa or extension of stay.

Edited January 17, 201313 yr by ubonjoe

Generally the Thais are quite easy going on under 16s.