Thread: Baby's Passport

I need to get the Thai birth certificate translated to apply, does anyone know if the transation centres are open tomorrow (Sunday)?

It could save me a day/night in BKK.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

If you are married before the kid is born he/she gets British Nationality automatically, my daughter was born just over 5 years ago and when she was about 4 or 5 months old got her British birth cert. and passport only cost around 5,000 baht if i remember but if you ain't married you can stick another 0 on the end of that and also it is at Home Office discretion whether they issue it or not.

don't think that is true anymore. A mate has just gone through the thing, and he needed to register the birth within a certain time and pay B12K (?)

if he had not done that, I believe they would not have let his kid have British citizenship

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by buriramboy

If you are married before the kid is born he/she gets British Nationality automatically, my daughter was born just over 5 years ago and when she was about 4 or 5 months old got her British birth cert. and passport only cost around 5,000 baht if i remember but if you ain't married you can stick another 0 on the end of that and also it is at Home Office discretion whether they issue it or not.

don't think that is true anymore. A mate has just gone through the thing, and he needed to register the birth within a certain time and pay B12K (?)

if he had not done that, I believe they would not have let his kid have British citizenship

Yes its 12K but Ive never heard of there being a time limit to register the birth, I hope not anyway as the son Im applying for is just over 18 months old now. I doubt they would exclude a whole wealth of 7,000bt payments but Ive been wrong before.

Originally Posted by melvbot

I hope not anyway as the son Im applying for is just over 18 months old now.

good luck with it!!

I was told there is a one year limit; after that, maybe they make it a lot more difficult (DNA?) as there are fraudulent applications

Originally Posted by gjbkk

the only problem will be if your child lives in the UK. he or she will need to obtain a birth certificate for some odd things and a translation of a thai to english in the uk will cost more than a bentley continental

Thats strange, when a child of US parent is born abroad and is registered at an Embassy they are issued a Passport and also a Citizen born abroad Birth certificate, then you take that to your home town or town of residence in the USA and they will register that birthcert there so any time you need certified copys you can get them from there. as only the origional consular birth cert is issued so if you lose it you are screwed.

Originally Posted by DrAndy

I was told there is a one year limit; after that, maybe they make it a lot more difficult (DNA?) as there are fraudulent applications

Who told you this? DNA? Sounds a bit like Chinese whispers to me. Ive never heard of a limit and cant find any reference to it on the Embassy site or any reports on the net. Suppose I'll find out tomorrow.

Originally Posted by blackgang

Originally Posted by gjbkk

the only problem will be if your child lives in the UK. he or she will need to obtain a birth certificate for some odd things and a translation of a thai to english in the uk will cost more than a bentley continental

Thats strange, when a child of US parent is born abroad and is registered at an Embassy they are issued a Passport and also a Citizen born abroad Birth certificate, then you take that to your home town or town of residence in the USA and they will register that birthcert there so any time you need certified copys you can get them from there. as only the origional consular birth cert is issued so if you lose it you are screwed.

It may come as a surprise but other countries have laws different to those in the US.

I will be having a kid, born in about 6 weerks, and was just about to start looking into all this crap. I am Canadian married to a Thai (yes female)
Probably similar to UK rules. Any Canadians gone through this recently

The postie has just been and I now have a British passport and birth certificate for my son. The tales of DNA sampling and time limits on applying (my son is 19 months) dont seem to have materialised. Finally something positive has happened after a shocking month or so.

How much has it cost you?

Originally Posted by benlovesnuk

I am british but a male, but subsequently so is my mother etc etc as i understand there is no need to register the birth of your baby what so ever wit the consulate, it is after all very expensive and only serves for a practical use if you child wants less hassle if they go and live for long periods of time in your own country mine being england!

very true, but he will always be treated by other countries (incl. UK) as a Thai

so he will always need to get visas etc

Originally Posted by Tao

I picked up the forms the other week and found that i needed my daughters photo countersigned by someone (preferably Britsh) who has known me for 2 years.

I thought that the subject of the photos needed to be known, not the parent

oh well, at least they managed to work out that new babies are less than 2 years old

Can anyone confirm that I don't need to register my childs birth for a UK birth certificate to get a UK passport for him.

I have

1). My original birth cert.
2). The wifes original birth cert.
3). Our marriage Cert original and translated (married before our childs birth)
4). Both parents passports - originals
5). Childs original birth cert Thai

should be enough right; approx 4-5000 baht

Children born after 1 July 2006 outside the UK

If the passport is for a child born after 1 July 2006 outside the UK you must provide the child’s:

full foreign birth certificate and
mother’s full UK birth certificate or
father’s full UK birth certificate

Passport documents

Yeah cheers Melv I sent that to the wife.

She phoned the Chaing Mai consulate who will do the service (send it to BKK for you and back) and the splitarse on the other end said that they changed the rules 3-4 weeks ago and that we needed is birth registered beforehand. Which I replied is bollocks and send the documents to BKK yourself.

IMPORTANT PLEASE HELP ME:

Wife went today to the Chiang Mai UK consulate in hand with all the correct documents for my childs passport.

They took all of the documents apart from the original copy of my birth certificate. They asked my wife to come back as this document was incorrect because it did not have my parents names on it

Children born after 1 July 2007 outside the UK
If the passport is for a child born after 1 July 2007 outside the UK you must provide the child’s:

• full foreign birth certificate and
• mother’s full UK birth certificate or
• father’s full UK birth certificate

http://ukinthailand.fco.gov.uk/en/passports/passport-documents

Also included were both the original copies of both mine and the wifes passports.

Do I send my parents original birth certificates too?

Or have they made a mistake?

They need the full long form birth certificate. I had a short form birth certificate whic means it is a record of the birth with just my name on it.

A long form birth certificate has your fathers name and/or mothers name and your name.

Im guessing this is the problem.

This would be a short form certificate, a record of the birth and name.



This is a long form certificate with the mothers/fathers name and profession.

Yep, I was never issued with the long birth certificate it seems. Maybe my age has something to do with it, my brother or sister don't seem to have one yet my parents do.

Just spent 10 pound to wait 15 days for it to be sent