Thailand Thread

[daboyz 36]

hmm... so how would I get a Thai passport for my son? (still feel so weird saying 'my son'!!) I want him to have a Thai citizen and after skim through the direction, it seems I have to have the same last name as him and needed my Thai passport and all.. and I'm not even married in Thailand. I think that I have to register my marriage tot he Thai counsulate in order to have my son be a Thai? ahh.. I need my brain back!!

I'm not sure how that works. Maybe you can do the equivalent of CRBA, but at a Thai consulate here in the U.S. Not sure how they would feel about him being born here to farang father, but not sure. You might ask here:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/forum/25-visas-and-migration-to-other-countries/

Somebody there would know I think.

[SqdnGuns 21]

My wife and son are in Thailand right now, son was born in Florida a little over a year ago. She has registered our son at the Amphur and she called someplace in BKK inquiring about a Thai passport for our son. They told her it would be easier for her to apply for his passport through the Thai Embassy once she gets back to the states.

[thongd4me 69]

hmm... so how would I get a Thai passport for my son? (still feel so weird saying 'my son'!!) I want him to have a Thai citizen and after skim through the direction, it seems I have to have the same last name as him and needed my Thai passport and all.. and I'm not even married in Thailand. I think that I have to register my marriage tot he Thai counsulate in order to have my son be a Thai? ahh.. I need my brain back!!

My ex wife (Japanese) changed her family name to mine & got Japanese passports for both daughters at the Japanese consulate in NYC.

She didn't change her Japanese name on her Japanese passport at any time.

She did the equivalent of ampur registration for the kids while they were in Japan.

They were given her JAPANESE family name because foreign fathers are not given any notice in the Japanese bureaucracy.

The passports for the kids were contingent on her good standing as a Japanese citizen and their birth certificates.

She could have had them without being married and still got passports for them.

Even after we are divorced, she keeps the same Japanese name on her Japanese passport and MY name on her 10-year green card.

Edited September 30, 2010 by thongd4me

[thongd4me 69]

Link to my job poll post - Thai working in US issue re: part time work

[anya-D 8]

I'm not sure how that works. Maybe you can do the equivalent of CRBA, but at a Thai consulate here in the U.S. Not sure how they would feel about him being born here to farang father, but not sure. You might ask here:

http://www.thaivisa....ther-countries/

Somebody there would know I think.

Thanks I read and re-read the instruction on the Thai consulate and I'm still confuse lol. I'll ask my sister about this. She should know!

My wife and son are in Thailand right now, son was born in Florida a little over a year ago. She has registered our son at the Amphur and she called someplace in BKK inquiring about a Thai passport for our son. They told her it would be easier for her to apply for his passport through the Thai Embassy once she gets back to the states.

Yes I heard it's easier here since the marriage certificate is here and the birth certificate as well..

My ex wife (Japanese) changed her family name to mine & got Japanese passports for both daughters at the Japanese consulate in NYC.

She didn't change her Japanese name on her Japanese passport at any time.

She did the equivalent of ampur registration for the kids while they were in Japan.

They were given her JAPANESE family name because foreign fathers are not given any notice in the Japanese bureaucracy.

The passports for the kids were contingent on her good standing as a Japanese citizen and their birth certificates.

She could have had them without being married and still got passports for them.

Even after we are divorced, she keeps the same Japanese name on her Japanese passport and MY name on her 10-year green card.

Thanks - so you say I can be a single mom for my son (in Thai authority's standpoint)? I'm not sure I want to do that to him lol

[thongd4me 69]

...Thanks - so you say I can be a single mom for my son (in Thai authority's standpoint)? I'm not sure I want to do that to him lol

LOL I didn't mean that at all; I just mentioned that as an example of what constitutes evidence for getting a passport for kids.

It's parentage naturally rather than marital status. You can show them the birth certificate with you & husbands name as

well as the marriage certificate showing your name change to identify you as the mother.

I'm not saying Thai & Japanese consulates will treat this exactly the same but I expect they will be similar.

[rsn 135]

To the original question about cell phone: I fedexed my then-fiance a cellphone in a fedex envelope surrounded by documents and padding so it felt like a stack of papers. No problems at all but it could have been luck. It was a US (AT&T) world phone which worked in Thailand and Europe though I had to enable international roaming. It was free with contract, probably not too bad without.

What did you write on the customs declaration doc?

[DaveTX 2]

I think I only wrote documents but I'm not certain. I guessed they would be less likely to mess with a fedex document envelope that felt like a book was inside.

[thongd4me 69]

Supermarket Customer From Hell - welcome to America!

[daboyz 36]

Laugh! I got a kick out of this.

After looking more on the internet, it looks like some kind of Burger King stunt.

Edited October 5, 2010 by daboyz

[daboyz 36]

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/10/15/politics/Thaksin-to-return-if-Pheu-Thai-wins-30140127.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Nationmultimediacom-Politics+%28NationMultimedia.com+-+Politics%29

This guys is truly selfish and delusional.

[anya-D 8]

http://www.nationmul...m+-+Politics%29

This guys is truly selfish and delusional.

I think he has some kind of mental illness sad - really

[anya-D 8]

Anyway, I'm in a process of getting Sam's birth certificate authentication to get a Thai birth certificate... so to not limit his choice in the future... Can a US president have / had dual citizen? hehehe

[daboyz 36]

Well things are not going well with my sister in law. She is very sick. Her daughter (my niece) will have the choice of moving to Si Saket with my wife's parents or riding it out in Chiang Mai with the brother. (Not a good move since she currently attends a private Catholic school in Chiang Mai)

Any one have a clue on how I can bring her here? She is 11. The father is not a factor in her life. He is up in Chiang Rai somewhere, and she has no contact with him at all.

It's a sad story, because she is a very good kid and does well in school.

[rsn 135]

Well things are not going well with my sister in law. She is very sick. Her daughter (my niece) will have the choice of moving to Si Saket with my wife's parents or riding it out in Chiang Mai with the brother. (Not a good move since she currently attends a private Catholic school in Chiang Mai)

Any one have a clue on how I can bring her here? She is 11. The father is not a factor in her life. He is up in Chiang Rai somewhere, and she has no contact with him at all.

It's a sad story, because she is a very good kid and does well in school.

Bring your niece here? Unless you adopt her, I'm not aware of any way you or your wife to can help her immigrate here.

Edited October 22, 2010 by rsn