durhamboy Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 My Thai wife always renews her Thai passport at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in Bangkok. She does this whenever we go back for a holiday. It's a quick, efficient and cheap service. Everytime she renews she also gets her old passport returned to her. The old passport still has some time left on it. The new passport starts from the date of application/issue and has a completely new number. There is nothing that I can see to say that the old passport is cancelled - no stamp, no writing, no cut-out corners etc. So therefore it would seem that she has 2 valid Thai passports. Anyone have any comments about this. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontious Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Only the new one will be valid. The new 10 ten year passport should be issued by now but still nothing on the MFA site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durhamboy Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 Thanks Pontious. Interesting, I didn't know they were going to issue 10 year ones. Just googled it and apparently they started issuing 10 year ones last year. I take your point that only the new one would be valid but how would other countries (e.g. UK Home Office) know that an "old" one wasn't valid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaiyaTH Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 13 minutes ago, durhamboy said: I take your point that only the new one would be valid but how would other countries (e.g. UK Home Office) know that an "old" one wasn't valid? One can usually only have one active passport at the time, so that makes using the old one fraud potentially. Should be showing up in the International shared databases too as far I know. The new ones have 10 years, I can confirm, we were a few months too early for my son his passport and that one is still only 5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Have fun when you google for introduction of the 10 year passport. mid 2020, July, August, September, near future The widely distributed news is from July 9. Obviously (from this post) it still is has not introduced regularly. I bet Covid is a good excuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puchooay Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Thai consulate in UK currently only issuing 1 year temporary passports. The excuse was Covid19 problems. My wife had to apply in July as hers was about to expire. Her old one was returned with the corner cut off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durhamboy Posted September 26, 2020 Author Share Posted September 26, 2020 19 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said: One can usually only have one active passport at the time, so that makes using the old one fraud potentially. Should be showing up in the International shared databases too as far I know. The new ones have 10 years, I can confirm, we were a few months too early for my son his passport and that one is still only 5 years. Thanks ChaiyaTH, do you really think that Thailand and the UK both share and use an international database? Personally I doubt it but you might well be right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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