Story Of My Thai Citizenship Application

[DrJoy]

3 hours ago, onthemoon said:

 

It would be great to read it, as I have seen that the practice of government officials is often their interpretation and not what the law actually says. I hope I won't need to insist (I still have a few years until retirement), but I would like to know what the legal situation is.

I will try to dig in and find out the original text, if some one else has please post it here.

 

It just says "must have an occupation" and that I think is a very big loophole, purposefully created by MOI.

 

Remember, the power to grant citizenship lies with MOI and minister (Anutin) and this process is not subject to judicial review.

 

I will agree with arkady, if asked for WP at oath and you dont have it, simply say that it is with the company HR for info update or any other cheesy excuse.

 

For you, the hard part is now over.

 

 

[saakura]

13 hours ago, onthemoon said:

 

I have a book, never had a digital WP. I'm old-fashioned enough to prefer the book. 😉

Well, me too. I would much rather prefer a book with historical data. I had one with  22yrs of stamps. When I went for renewing it in 2017, it was taken away and in lieu, an app was installed which only states that "xxx is permitted to work as yyy till zzz". It came as a shock. Luckily I had save scan copies of the booklet which I used in my citizenship application. I had with me for 22yrs and still miss that WP book. They could have simply stamped it as cancelled/void or whatever & returned it.

[Arkady]

I tried to upload the Nationality Act, as requested about but it seems that AN no longer accepts Pdf or Word files for uploading which makes it difficult. I don't have a link on hand but there are plenty online. One thing to be wary of is that you need the 1965 Nationality Act, as amended up to 2008.  There was also an amendment act in 2012 but I don't think any of it was relevant to naturalisation, although there was important stuff for those born in the Kingdom after 1992 and displaced Thais from neighboring countries, whose ancestors lost Thai nationality in the after the bits of neighboring countries seized by Thailand under Japanese auspices in WW2 were taken back by the European powers after the war. 

 

Re digital WPs.  Has anyone used one to apply for citizenship yet.  Do you get a print out that you can keep for your records.  This would certainly be an issue for anyone changing jobs in the 3 year qualifying period.  Previous legislation allowed you to keep the cancelled hard copy version.  I did this by quoting the Working of Aliens Act at them and they gave it to me with very bad grace. But that law was superseded by a Royal Decree of Prayut's.