They will open up tomorrow.
Can anyone confirm 100% that you don't need the house registration book?
It could save a wasted trip as the wife doesnt have it with her.
why the hell would anybody want ther kid to obtain a thai passport?
if they are leuk-kreung, and you are the father, you should be able to get a passport from your home country.
if the child flew to your home country on a thai passport, he would most likely need to obtain a visa, so the thai passport is useless to him/her.
My sons have both English and Thai passports, if they just had Thai passports I would need 3 sets of visa's to take the family back to the UK.
Having Thai/UK passports they can exit Thailand on the Thai passports and enter the UK on the UK passports and stay there as long as they want.
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And then they would need a visa to come back to Thailand using the british passportOriginally Posted by tsicar
i was not aware that one can have a departure stamp and an entry stamp in two different passports.
ok, so you leave england on the thai passport, and get the entry stamp. exit thailand on the british one to return to england and i am bloody sure the thais would want to know how you got into the country in the first place.
my kids had thai passports, but when they expired i did not bother to renew them. i tried to use them in the way you mentioned, but was not allowed to.
in thailand they can just show their thai id if they pick up problems. could have problems with the overstay thing on departure from thailand when they are over 14 yrs old, but how the hell would they be able to charge a thai citizen with overstay?
is there anybody on the forum who could shed some light on this? i.e. anybody who has used this "two passport" system?
^I've done it 3 or 4 times, no problem
There are several countries in SE Asia where Thais passport holders do not need a visa, but Europeans (and presumably US Citizens, Australians and other riff-raff as well) do, e.g. Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos and Vietnam. Also, by the kids holding Thai passports (and citizenship) they obviously don't have to renew (or even hold) visas when they stay here.
My kids exit and enter Thailand using their Thai passports, and enter Europe using their Norwegian passport. No need for visas or other permits whatsoever.
I only wish my wife and I could do the same thing....
Any error in tact, fact or spelling is purely due to transmissional errors...
Went to the Pinklao office yesterday, so heres a quick report. This is in the Ministry Of Culture building.
When we got to the downstairs bit it looked a bit chaotic, queued up and took a number, filled in the forms and waited 10 mins. The number system hadnt changed or called a number in that time so we decided to get some food as it looked like a long wait was on the cards.
Theres a restaurant on the 9th floor of the building so we jumped in the lift, grabbed some food (half decent selection for a small place Thai and Western food) whic took about 15 mins. Back in the lift downstairs, looked at the nuumber system and sods law it had move along like wildfire, about 15 past our number.
Went in to the main bit where they process the application and waited about 15 mins to get seen, another 15 applying as we had 2 applications then round to pay and out. I think if we had stayed and waited rather than going for food we would have been in and out within 40 mins, not bad for any sort of offical office stuff anywhere.
^Thai passport offices are a wonder of efficiency.
They should pay a lot of money to whoever set them up to sort out immigration, labour and amphur offices. (although Saphan Sung amphur is quite nice)
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