Hi,

 

Quick question about a UK pension matter.

 

In applying to start my pension the company which handles all of this has requested certain documents which they state MUST be originals and NOT copies.

As my pension has provision for a widows pension they have asked I supply the birth certificate of my wife.

We have located the original which was kept at the family home but it is in a rather damaged and poor condition. The only replacements are photo copies from the original book kept at the Amphur Office.

I suspect many Thai's do not even have this and I wonder if the Thai ID card is considered equivalent? Though sending the original ID card to UK for verification would also be out of the question.

 

So how have you resolved this matter?

 

Thanks

Bob

 

moved to Home country .(there is a pinned topic on pensions at the top)

Thanks. never knew that ????

 

I will review there

 

1 hour ago, bobnuts said:

We have located the original which was kept at the family home but it is in a rather damaged and poor condition.

My wife just got a birth cert from local govt office because my Thai wife never had one in the first place, I just sent that with a polite letter explaining to the pension company they have to understand Thailand is not the same as UK etc etc.

In your situation I would get the original you have from the family home and get it sealed in those plastic folders thingys and send that by EMS.

 

1 hour ago, bobnuts said:

n applying to start my pension the company which handles all of this has requested certain documents which they state MUST be originals and NOT copies.

How could they possibly tell (if you use a colour copier).

My former wife didn't have a birth certificate either, when I registered the kids birth the Embassy accepted a copy of her ID card.

I took her passport back to the UK, took it into the Pensions administrators office, they took and stamped a copy of it and placed it in my file, after the pensions officer signed a note on it to say she had seen the original document, in lieu of a BC as proof of age. (The passport also had a 10 year UK multi-entry Visa in it so, she could see the details had been through the mill...)

Take the original birth certificate (equally applies to any other Thai language document) to a firm of lawyers in Bangkok, one which is or is associated with a name firm in the US or the UK.Ask them to translate the Thai document and confirm in letter they have seen the original.

 

Worked for me.

 

 

Your wife's original birth certificate would be of no use at all to your pension company as it's in Thai and full of details like the waxing/waning moon at the time of birth.  Get it officially translated and stamped and send a copy of the birth certificate and the original of the certified translation.

Thanks for all the replies. Still waiting for the pension company to reply but have an official translation in the works to cover all bases.