drewfritz

Your daughter and Wife are Thai. Get both of them a Thai Passport and ensure they enter/leave Thailand using it at all time.

Wow..that was a fast response..thanks much!

Hi all, thanks in advance for your help.

My family and I are in what seems to be a unique situation and I need to know if what we intend to do is legally possible. Here's our situation:

me: US citizen

my wife: Thai by birth, recently became a US citizen

our twin daughters, age 11: US citizens by birth

our goal: I've accepted a job offer in Singapore and will move there from the US sometime over the next month or so. Due to the failing health of her elderly father, my wife would like to live in Thailand for a few years at least and put our daughters in an international school there beginning in August. International schools are significantly cheaper in Thailand than in Singapore and we'd also like them to learn some Thai language and culture.

my question(s): This may seem like an ignorant question (which it is :-) but is my new US passport holder wife still a citizen of Thailand at this point and will she be able to live there indefinitely without a visa? Also, are my daughters considered Thai citizens as well by virtue of the fact that their mother is Thai? If not, how would we go about gaining Thai citizenship for them?

Again, thanks very much for your help!