Thread: Thai Passports

I went with the wife to the Passport Office last Tues to apply for my boys. The whole process took around 45min for both including filling all the forms, taking the pics for the passports, payment etc (and would've probably actually have been less if every woman in the office didn't have to come over and hold one of my boys. ).

The passports themselves have just been delivered this morning so from application to delivery only 4 days. Not too shabby at all.

wish it was like that in australia

thats good service I am applying for a British passport for my kid and I am getting pissed off with their system

what papers are needed for the Thai passport as that is my next step

Took the wife about 4 hours while I sat in Erics bar and 7 days to receive both the kids passports. Cant remember how long for their Australian passports but it was easy to do
Easy money

Originally Posted by gjbkk

what papers are needed for the Thai passport as that is my next step

I'll have to double-check with the wife but I think it was birth certificates (theirs), and passport/id's for us.

thanks and have a green

why didnt you apply for uk or oz passports to save you getting visa,s for your boys

^^Sorry for late response gjbkk, went off to watch the rugby. Anyways I was right first time; you'll need kids birthcertificates and ID for yourself and wife (her ID card, you passport - apparently that's the only thing they'll accept).

why didnt you apply for uk or oz passports to save you getting visa,s for your boys

We have (NZ in our case). Getting both as it makes it easier entering/leaving Thailand (they'd require a visa if returning to Thailand on a NZ passport)

Quelle surprise!

senility setting in early ET?

thanks again for the information. i remember years of ago you could get a "rights of abode" stamped in a non UK passport for your kids but I expect that vanished when sense left the UK.

new labour new danger led by new dick heads.

Ant,
Daughter has a thai birth certificate, got it in Bangkok last year after a lot of running around and form filling, went to C/Mai to get Thai Passport, was told ''must have her name in housebook for Passport'' went to Doi saket to get name put in house book was told ''must have Thai Passport to put name in housebook'' , So we gave up, will try and do in the UK now.
Who was right, or will daughter ever get a Thai passport?

Originally Posted by gjbkk

new labour new danger led by new dick heads.

New danger? They've been in power for over a decade.

Originally Posted by gjbkk

thanks again for the information. i remember years of ago you could get a "rights of abode" stamped in a non UK passport for your kids but I expect that vanished when sense left the UK.

new labour new danger led by new dick heads.

can quite understand that.
oh, for the day that the BNP rule the UK, then there will be no ambiguity.

Where in Bangkok do you apply for Thai passports? Is it possible to do it by mail or do they need to see in person? My wife needs to renew and I need one for my son.

The Thai passport for my son took about the same time as yours, with my wife holding my son for the one picture. His U.S. passport took about three weeks to get, and I had to take 45 pictures before the consulate in Chaing Mai would accept one as acceptable.

Originally Posted by Bung

Where in Bangkok do you apply for Thai passports?

Cheang Wattana road - I think it is the Dept Foriegn Affairs

you can also apply in some central stores like central bang na

Originally Posted by oldgit

Ant,
Daughter has a thai birth certificate, got it in Bangkok last year after a lot of running around and form filling, went to C/Mai to get Thai Passport, was told ''must have her name in housebook for Passport'' went to Doi saket to get name put in house book was told ''must have Thai Passport to put name in housebook'' , So we gave up, will try and do in the UK now.
Who was right, or will daughter ever get a Thai passport?

Damn, sounds like you struck an off-day! Wish I could help mate but I'm honestly not sure. I can't imagine why they'd need the housebook ('tambein-baan'?), pretty sure we didn't need it?

Guess we got the wrong jobsworth some where. thinking back, at Doi Saket the chap in the office held up his hand to see if the air/con was working and I waved back at him (taking the piss) he spent the next minute trying to explain why he held his hand up, maybe he put the block on daughters name in house book.