I don't think it is a general requirement just a local one, the previous head guy vowed that no "farang" would ever be issued with a yellow book as long as he was running the show so at least it was an improvement . The requirements here were also that any foreign language documents needed to be translated into Thai and the translation approved, by "a competent authority" no mention of passport verification but as I said I already had a verified copy of my passport from when i got married and a MFA approved translation too. which they accepted, despite being years old A document stating the names of parents ( I could initially only think of a birth certificate) which could be tricky, especially if it needs verifying as the UK embassy won't do it, it has to be done back in the UK. Fortunately I had stated their names on my "affidavit of freedom to marry" which had been translated and verified by the MFA and they accepted that without even raising an eyebrow, The book is free and I think they charged 20bt for the card wallet thing. The pooyai ban cost me 500bt and I had to buy lunch for the mother in law who acted as witness. Had I needed to go to bangkok i would have abandoned my application , it wasn't that important, I was just curious, this was a good few years ago and I haven't looked at it since, and disappointingly , nobody has ever asked me to produce it
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