How to get a certified copy of a Thai Passport

[Pinot]

I'm trying to establish a brokerage account for my Thai wife with Charles Schwab. They want a certified copy of her ID. Where do I get that done? At the passport office here in Phuket? 

 

Is that the same as getting a notarized copy? Could that be done at an attorney's office? 

 

Thanks for any input. 

[ubonjoe]

I would say a notarized copy which for all intents and purposes is a certified copy should be accepted.

[Pinot]

27 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

I would say a notarized copy which for all intents and purposes is a certified copy should be accepted.

How do I get one?

[ubonjoe]

3 minutes ago, Pinot said:

How do I get one?

At a attorney's office.

[fulhamboy]

My TGF went to the passport office in Phuket town,

a five year passport cost 1200 baht, bit of a wait you

need to go early, but handy for many things.  

[sirocco]

Hello, Fulhamboy, 
1200 baht for a copy certifiée- compliant or passport.
For a copy it's very exaggerated. Just for a stamp and a signature, we do not get bored in Phuket.
Why, the passport 5 years ???

[Amplish]

You should be able to get a verified copy for a Thai passport for around 200 baht at the place where they issue passports, provided it is a valid passport. I got one a few years back for my wife, to open a shared foreign bank account in the name of my wife and that was accepted by the (Dutch) bank. If it needs to be a verified copy of a ID card I think you need to go to a attorney.

[sawadee1947]

22 hours ago, Pinot said:

How do I get one?

check internet in your town for an address. Any lawyer will do it

[thaikahuna]

You would need to get either a certified copy through the MoFA at Chaeng Wattana nad then get a certified translation or take it to the U.S. Embassy (assuming you are an American) and let them do it. 

[Pinot]

2 hours ago, Amplish said:

You should be able to get a verified copy for a Thai passport for around 200 baht at the place where they issue passports, provided it is a valid passport. I got one a few years back for my wife, to open a shared foreign bank account in the name of my wife and that was accepted by the (Dutch) bank. If it needs to be a verified copy of a ID card I think you need to go to a attorney.

That's what I was hoping for. To get one page notarized by a local attorney was going to cost me 3000baht. 

[ubonjoe]

42 minutes ago, thaikahuna said:

You would need to get either a certified copy through the MoFA at Chaeng Wattana nad then get a certified translation or take it to the U.S. Embassy (assuming you are an American) and let them do it. 

I don't think that is really needed in this case. A Thai passport is mostly in English on the info page not Thai.

[Johnniey]

Use Maybank instead, much easier.

 

http://www.maybank-ke.co.th/en/

[Mattd]

3 hours ago, sawadee1947 said:

check internet in your town for an address. Any lawyer will do it

Not sure that is 100% correct, it would depend on the brokerage firm as to whether they will accept or not, most of the times that I have had to have documents such as Thai passports notorized for work purposes, then it had to be done by a Thai registered public notary.

[sawadee1947]

Just now, Mattd said:

Not sure that is 100% correct, it would depend on the brokerage firm as to whether they will accept or not, most of the times that I have had to have documents such as Thai passports notorized for work purposes, then it had to be done by a Thai registered public notary.

I did it 3 months ago in CM

[Mattd]

2 minutes ago, sawadee1947 said:

I did it 3 months ago in CM

I'm sure you did, I am not saying it cannot be done for some purposes, it depends on the requirements of the ones needing to have it notarized, each have different requirements.

[Cranky]

Certified copy of a passport is the easy part - any notary public can certify it.  The tricky bit is they will also need a proof of residential address in English.  

[khunPer]

On 3/21/2018 at 7:44 AM, Pinot said:

I'm trying to establish a brokerage account for my Thai wife with Charles Schwab. They want a certified copy of her ID.

My GF opened an online brokerage account last year with her own bank, SCB, which was very "easy"; the local SCB-branch certified a copy of her ID and mailed it to the main-office, together with all other necessary applications and documents.

 

When I a few years ago opened my own SCB online trading, I also used the local SCB-branch to certify my passport copy.

 

I would presume that if one's bank is not good enough for certification – normally a bank account is linked with a brokerage account – then an authorized notary, or the local amphor, could do the job.

[Anthony Loh]

I just done my wife and four kids Thai passport last week in Chiangmai. Is easy, just make a copy of each of the passport front page and together with the original passport, summit to your local area MOFA and paid 200 baht for each passport, I paid total 800 bath as I need to endorse 4 passports. If you summited in Monday morning, you can get it back on Wednesday morning. Don’t need to make any English translation as the passport is in English unless someone need a different language.

[fulhamboy]

On 22/03/2018 at 11:45 AM, sirocco said:

Hello, Fulhamboy, 
1200 baht for a copy certifiée- compliant or passport.
For a copy it's very exaggerated. Just for a stamp and a signature, we do not get bored in Phuket.
Why, the passport 5 years ???

Passport for travel, she have ID card now she have passport we may go visit friends in Hong kong, 

then she come with me to Singapore for hoilday.

 

[sirocco]

Ah! that's the explanation
Have a nice week end  

[ubeturazz]

Anthony Loh's explanation is the correct one.. go to Ministry Of Foreign Affairs. if you are in a hurry you can get it the same day (but will have to pay 4X) (at least true for Ubon Ratchathani).  

i needed it for the IRS, and it was exactly what they wanted - a "copy" saying the "copy was" really you.