Fast passport for 4 year old Thai daughter

[IztwanGurob]

When visiting Thailand in January my Thai girlfriend want to make a passport for her 4 year old daughter. The passport is neded to later apply for a visa for my girlfriend and her daughter to come and live with me in Europe.

 

My days in Thailand are limited due to work and we want to avoid the one-week wait before getting the passport. Anyone have up-to-date on where and how you can get a passport faster? We will stay in Bangkok or Pattaya.

[blackcab]

Passports take 2 or 3 days to arrive. They are quick.

 

Does your girlfriend know that both parents have to be present to apply for the passport of a Thai child? If this is not possible then the absent parent has to provide documentation the passport office will accept.

 

In addition, one parent is not allowed to a child out of the country without written permission from the other parent.

[7by7]

On ‎18‎/‎11‎/‎2017 at 5:22 PM, blackcab said:

Does your girlfriend know that both parents have to be present to apply for the passport of a Thai child? If this is not possible then the absent parent has to provide documentation the passport office will accept.

 Unless the other parent is dead, in which case take death certificate; or she has sole custody issued by an ampur or court, in which case take the sole custody document.

[offset]

48 minutes ago, 7by7 said:

 Unless the other parent is dead, in which case take death certificate; or she has sole custody issued by an ampur or court, in which case take the sole custody document.

Or if she was not married to the father, if she was not married she has sole custody and the father has no say in the child's upbringing

[ubonjoe]

They can be obtained on the same day if it is an emergency at the passport office located at the Department of Consular Affairs in Bangkok.

As said normal is 3 or 4 days by EMS.

[Danielsiam]

3,000 baths if wanted in the same day, at the Consular Affairs in Bangkok

[7by7]

23 hours ago, offset said:

Or if she was not married to the father, if she was not married she has sole custody and the father has no say in the child's upbringing

Are you sure?

 

My wife was not legally married to her first husband. Like many (most?) Thai couples they had the Buddhist ceremony but never legally registered the marriage at an ampur.

 

The father is named on her daughter's birth certificate and as he would not cooperate, even though he had abandoned wife and child, my wife had to obtain sole custody in order to get her daughter, my step daughter, a Thai passport so the girl could come to live with us in the UK.

 

[IztwanGurob]

On 18/11/2017 at 6:22 PM, blackcab said:

Does your girlfriend know that both parents have to be present to apply for the passport of a Thai child? If this is not possible then the absent parent has to provide documentation the passport office will accept.

Yes, we will first visit her home "amphur" office to get a document called "por kor 14" which will give the mother rights to apply for a passport for her daughter without asking the father. To be 100% sure we also hope to get some kind of letter /document signed by the father. Have anyone seen a template for this document?

[IztwanGurob]

On 18/11/2017 at 6:22 PM, blackcab said:

In addition, one parent is not allowed to a child out of the country without written permission from the other parent.

Yes, we know. The father will sign anything according to my girlfriend. Is there a template for this written permission somewhere? Writing official documents in Thai is not my strong side.

[IztwanGurob]

On 20/11/2017 at 1:45 PM, ubonjoe said:

They can be obtained on the same day if it is an emergency at the passport office located at the Department of Consular Affairs in Bangkok.

This time time is more important than money.

 

Is this the place?

 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Department+of+Consular+Affairs+กรมการกงสุล/@13.8902134,100.5670667,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xb74260a43a82bb1e!8m2!3d13.8902134!4d100.5670667

[blackcab]

2 hours ago, IztwanGurob said:

This time time is more important than money.

 

Is this the place?

 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Department+of+Consular+Affairs+กรมการกงสุล/@13.8902134,100.5670667,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xb74260a43a82bb1e!8m2!3d13.8902134!4d100.5670667

 

Yes. The front if the building, which you can see from the main road, is very distinctive.

[claffey]

Which country are you from? Obtaining a visa for your 'girlfriend' and her dependents may not be so simple. It would be advisable to marry and live together first. Its going to be hard to prove your relationship if you are living on the other side of the world...

[IztwanGurob]

On 22/11/2017 at 1:15 AM, claffey said:

Which country are you from? Obtaining a visa for your 'girlfriend' and her dependents may not be so simple. It would be advisable to marry and live together first. Its going to be hard to prove your relationship if you are living on the other side of the world...

We are staying together now in my home country and she is here on a temporary visa. I have pretty good hope of obtaining a permanent visa for her and her daughter as long as we can obtain the right documents in Thailand.

[scorecard]

8 hours ago, IztwanGurob said:

We are staying together now in my home country and she is here on a temporary visa. I have pretty good hope of obtaining a permanent visa for her and her daughter as long as we can obtain the right documents in Thailand.

 

Lots of steps and research and documents, but worth the work, good luck for a happy future together with your wife and daughter.

[Autonuaq]

On 11/19/2017 at 12:22 AM, blackcab said:

Passports take 2 or 3 days to arrive. They are quick.

 

Does your girlfriend know that both parents have to be present to apply for the passport of a Thai child? If this is not possible then the absent parent has to provide documentation the passport office will accept.

 

In addition, one parent is not allowed to a child out of the country without written permission from the other parent.

This is not only in Thailand the case in most countries around the world both parents need to be present or have permission to get passport or travel with child alone from the other parent.

 

If document for permission are mossing then some thing small can become a criminal case of (International)child obduction.

 

 

[Jonmarleesco]

It's not a week in Bangkok. Two days, if you collect. Easiest is probably on the 11th floor of Thaniya Park, in Srinakarin Road, just after the Pattanakarn junction heading towards Bangna.

[khunPer]

On 11/18/2017 at 1:45 PM, IztwanGurob said:

Anyone have up-to-date on where and how you can get a passport faster?

Where I/we apply for Thai-passports, in Surat Thani (down South), they offer a "same day service", so if you arrive early, you can have the passport in the afternoon. Not that expensive VIP-service, when compared to Western money (I cannot remember the fee, but around 1,000 or 2,000 baht extra); probably all passport offices has the same service. You should be able to google it, I found a fine official English language page, when applying for my daughters second Thai passport a few month ago, so I was correctly prepared with all necessary documents...

 

And just to remind you, that both dad and mom need to be present, when applying for passport for a child.

[IztwanGurob]

3,000 baths if wanted in the same day, at the Consular Affairs in Bangkok

Yes, we were there yesterday and got the passport the same day. We arrived 8:00 and application, photo and fingerprints were done by 8:50. Then we could collect the passport after 14:30 the same day.

3000 baht paid in the morning.