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im a uk citizen traveling home for a month in april,im taking my 3 month old daughter with me.

the father[thai]is not coming with us,can anyone tell me if i need a letter of consent from him,and if so where from?

thankyou

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Is the child British, Thai or both; i.e. does she have a British passport? If so, then AFAIK you do not need any letter of consent from the father.

If she only has a Thai passport then she will need a visa and in order to get one the father will need to write a letter consenting to the temporary removal of the child from Thailand, unless no father is named on the birth certificate.

See Chapter 10 - Visit entry requirements, 10.3 - Children as visitors.

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To GU22: I went throught this recently. My son could not leave on his british passport because he didn't have a visa for thailand. Therefore he left on his thai passport, and it was necessary to get a letter of consent from the mother.

To the OP: You can get the letter of consent from your local amphur.

Even with the letter, I had to wait for quite a while at immigration while some senior officers were consulted. They made notes in the passport about what flight we were taking and made reference to the letter of consent.

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hi thankyou for your advice.

my partner went to the local amphur today and was told because i am the mother of the child a letter of consent was not needed?! i find that a tad odd,i think immigration will have a field day with me,a uk citizen lady with a half thai child,my daughter has my partners surname not mine, and she has a thai passport not a uk one.

any ideas?

thanks again

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my partner went to the local amphur today and was told because i am the mother of the child a letter of consent was not needed?! i find that a tad odd,i think immigration will have a field day with me,a uk citizen lady with a half thai child,my daughter has my partners surname not mine, and she has a thai passport not a uk one.

any ideas?

Wouldn't it make more sense to ask immigration (not the amphur) as they are people you will be dealing with when you leave. At the very least your daughter will need a Visa for UK and I would take her birth certificate with you when you travel to prove your relationship.

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At the very least your daughter will need a Visa for UK
Unless the child has dual nationality and both a Thai and a British passport. In which case leave Thailand with the Thai one, enter the UK with the British one.

mearkat75,

If you want to be sure, I suggest contacting the Thai immigration bureau or

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At the very least your daughter will need a Visa for UK
Unless the child has dual nationality and both a Thai and a British passport. In which case leave Thailand with the Thai one, enter the UK with the British one.

GU22 did you see what the OP said?

,i think immigration will have a field day with me,a uk citizen lady with a half thai child,my daughter has my partners surname not mine, and she has a thai passport not a uk one.

...and to quote you from above

Doh!
not one of your better threads eh!

From a previous post the OP thinks getting a British passport is a rip off!

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GU22 did you see what the OP said?
,i think immigration will have a field day with me,a uk citizen lady with a half thai child,my daughter has my partners surname not mine, and she has a thai passport not a uk one.
I did, but as I hadn't seen her other thread, I assumed that she meant she had a British passport for the child, but would be showing Thai passport control the Thai one.

As the saying goes, "Assume makes an ass of u and me!" (Just me in this case.

Talking of being an ass, I cannot believe that the OP has not taken the simple step of having the birth registered via the embassy and getting a British passport for the child. If she had done so, she would not now have this problem.

Reminds me of the proverb about spoiling the ship for a ha'porth of tar!

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Reminds me of the proverb about spoiling the ship for a ha'porth of tar!
I agree entirely... with the cost of the visa it'll work out more expensive to get a British passport in the UK coupled with the fact that she will probably now have to attend an interview for a first time passport application in the UK....... do you think she's blond perhaps?:o
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As I understand it here, the problem is that immigation at the airport will not be happy that a baby with thai nationality is leaving the country with a foreign national, albeit the chid's natural mother, without the consent of the father. Registering the birth in the UK and having a british passport will not help much, imho, because the child will be leaving thailand on it's thai passport, not it's british passport - unless the mother takes the child to bkk immi and get's a visa - not even sure if that is possible).

If the amphur says that it's not necessary to get the letter of consent, that should still not prevent them issuing it, if you insist that you want it. Sometimes the people there can be deliberately obstructive.

You could also check with the consular section of the british embassy about the procedure.

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err thanks for the help "boys",she has a uk visa thankyou very much,spoke to immi,not needed as im the mother and not married to the father,just take her birth cert.

oh and yes i am blonde,but its from a bottle....................

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In this thread you say that it is your intention to apply for a British passport for your daughter while you are in the UK.

I'd just like to point out what it says on the Home Office passport service website.

I want to apply for a new or renewed child passport (under 16s)

Please note, this option is not available to customers who do not reside in the UK.

How are you going to persuade them that a child with a Thai passport which contains only a visit visa is resident in the UK?

You may be thinking that you can pop into the local registry office and get a British birth certificate for her and use that to get her a British passport. Difficulty with that is, you can't. Births must be registered within 42 days if in England or Wales or Northern Ireland, 21 days if in Scotland.

MA's blonde comment might have been uncalled for, but you haven't really thought this through, have you?

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who said anything about getting my daughter a uk passport when i get back home to england? we are only going for a months hol?

read things properly young man

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You did; here

im flying home to the uk with my baby,she was born in thailand, she has a thai passport[cheap!]but not a uk birth cert or passport yet[they are a rip off at uk embassy in bkk] does she need them to fly home or can she do them when back in the uk?

(My emphasis)

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