Can my son claim me.

Post by **gooze** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:06 am

I was at immigration yesterday trying in vain to get a concrete answer from them as regards the following information.

My wife as thats what I choose to refer to her as and I have a lovely one year old little boy, born here of course. We are not married. We have all the paperwork ie birth certificates etc.

The question is can I get a one year visa of some type on the grounds that I am my sons father without getting married to Mrs G?. At the moment I have a non-imm B and a work permit however who wants to work forever?. I am also 10 years short of the age for a retirement visa.

Immigrations answer was "maybe, probably not,no, I think maybe yes/no and a whole lot of head scratching" . I think the main problem is that as I am legal here they do not understand that I may have a problem in the future.

Anyone can throw some light on this subject for me.

Post by **DawnHRD** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:24 am

Is your name on the birth certificate? If so, you should be able to get an "O" on the family option, but you may have to go back to UK (you are a Brit, aren't you?) to get it, and who knows how long it will be an option.

If your name is not on the birth certificate, then you're in the same boat as me and it's a categoric "no", no matter that you live with, love & support the child.

Post by **gooze** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:40 am

Dawn,

Thanks for the answer, yes my name is on the BC.

As regards your situation can you not adopt legally your little bundle of fun on the grounds all be-it you may not be the biological mother although to all intense and purpopses you are the mother.

Post by **buksida** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:51 am

As far as I'm aware you can get a non-O support visa (its the same as the marriage one) to support your son. However they still want to see the 40k a month coming into Thailand from overseas.

Off topic but be aware that the British embassy will make problems if you want to get him a UK passport and are not married, it is possible but very difficult.

Post by **Mack111** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:08 pm

Buskida, my kid is only half British, i went down the embassy (not in Thailand) registered the birth filled in some forms, was only there about 20 mins and was given a britsh passort 3 weeks latter......

think it might be a Thailand problem mate...

Post by **buksida** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:11 pm

Mack111 wrote:
think it might be a Thailand problem mate...

You're probably right there, our first was born 3 weeks before the date on our marriage cert (my fault, we actually married 6 months before but I never had time to do the paper chase). So the embassy gave me another 15 hoops to jump through, and a bigger wad of cash to pay before we finally got his passport - ended up costing over 20k.