POLL: Expats living in Thailand -- do you have a Thai I.D. card including if obtained via yellow book?

[Jingthing]

The question has come up about the rough percentage of expats living in Thailand that have a Thai I.D. card (including when obtained from a yellow book).

 

Driver's license is not a Thai I.D. card! So if that's all you've got then the answer is no. 

 

So I'm doing this poll. 

 

I guess that expats that have become citizens or permanent residences all do have a Thai I.D. so I'll add that as a separate category. 

[JAS21]

I have both ... I am waiting pen poised for your pole... woops... or even poll.....
 

[canthai55]

Yes

[Pilotman]

makes you wonder why the Thai DL is not a valid ID for all purposes, as it is in most countries.  It has name, address, date of birth, is traceable and has a validity period, so its perfect .  What more is needed?  

[Antonymous]

My wife is Thai. She has a Thai ID card.

 

My gardener is Burmese. He has a Pink ID card that provides ID, but is not a 'Thai ID card'. it doesn't make him Thai in any way.

 

I am British and have a British passport. I never carry it around with me. I also have a Thai DL which I use as ID for domestic flights, police checkpoints, hotel check ins, etc. It works as an ID, but doesn't make me Thai.

 

 

[Jingthing]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:32 AM, Pilotman said:

makes you wonder why the Thai DL is not a valid ID for all purposes, as it is in most countries.  It has name, address, date of birth, is traceable and has aa validity period, so its perfect .  What more is needed?  

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Sure.

Of course the reason I'm doing this poll NOW is that online registration for the Covid-19 vaccibe has opened up and it accepts Thai id card numbers (including from yellow book) but NOT Thai driver's license numbers or passport numbers.

[Jingthing]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:34 AM, Antonymous said:

My wife is Thai. She has a Thai ID card.

 

My gardener is Burmese. He has a Pink ID card that provides ID, but is not a 'Thai ID card'. it doesn't make him Thai in any way.

 

I am British and have a British passport. I never carry it around with me. I also have a Thai DL which I use as ID for domestic flights, police checkpoints, hotel check ins, etc. It works as an ID, but doesn't make me Thai.

 

 

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Your answer on this poll should be NO. 

[Antonymous]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:35 AM, Jingthing said:

Your answer on this poll should be NO. 

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And if you have a Pink ID card your answer to the poll should also be NO.

[Jingthing]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:37 AM, Antonymous said:

 

And if you have a Pink ID card your answer to the poll should also be NO.

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NO! It should be YES!

[canthai55]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:34 AM, Antonymous said:

 it doesn't make him Thai in any way.

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I am not Thai - but I have a pink Thai ID card, which has a number same as a Thai citizen has, except it starts with 6, making it traceable by Thailand Gov't

 

[Pilotman]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:34 AM, Jingthing said:

Sure.

Of course the reason I'm doing this poll NOW is that online registration for the Covid-19 vaccibe has opened up and it accepts Thai id card numbers (including from yellow book) but NOT Thai driver's license numbers or passport numbers.

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so if they accepted the Thai DL it would take away a whole layer of bureaucratic nonsense that people would have to go through, including attending an Amphur, a wait for application to be approved, just to get a card that you don't need except for this covid registration. It makes no sense, but that's normal in this country

[canthai55]

Top line of my Pink ID card says ..

ID Card not Thailand Citizen

So ... it IS a Thai ID card

[canthai55]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:39 AM, Pilotman said:

so if they accepted the Thai DL

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It is accepted in many places - top of my head San Kamphaeng Hot Springs, Nat'l Parks, DLT, ...

[Pilotman]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:43 AM, canthai55 said:

It is accepted in many places - top of my head San Kamphaeng Hot Springs, Nat'l Parks, DLT, ...

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just not for this 

[canthai55]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:44 AM, Pilotman said:

just not for this 

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this - what ?

 

[Golden Triangle]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:39 AM, Pilotman said:

so if they accepted the Thai DL it would take away a whole layer of bureaucratic nonsense that people would have to go through, including attending an Amphur, a wait for application to be approved, just to get a card that you don't need except for this covid registration. It makes no sense, but that's normal in this country

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Actually, you make a very valid point, my friend up north has the pink ID card, we were discussing this yesterday, he tells me that as yet he hasn't used it for anything, he said he may use it to register at his local hospital but he thinks all that is on offer is the Sinovac rubbish so he says he'll wait for something better.

 

So how many people use the pink ID card often and for what ??

[Tagged]

Have yellow book, and not picked up my pink card yet, but will. 

[Tagged]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:34 AM, Antonymous said:

 

 

I am British and have a British passport. I never carry it around with me. I also have a Thai DL which I use as ID for domestic flights, police checkpoints, hotel check ins, etc. It works as an ID, but doesn't make me Thai.

 

 

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Not every hotel accepts DL, 

[w94005m]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:26 AM, JAS21 said:

I have both ... I am waiting pen poised for your pole...
 

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"waiting for your pole", sounds like you're a bar girl, ladyboy or boy ????

[holy cow cm]

Yes I have the pink and yellow.

[Pilotman]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:47 AM, canthai55 said:

this - what ?

 

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For the subject of this post, covid registration. Are you not following this? 

[Pilotman]

  On 5/1/2021 at 10:03 AM, holy cow cm said:

Yes I have the pink and yellow.

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I would see a doctor about that mate, I'm not a medical man, but I'm fairly sure that whenever you have shouldn't  be pink and yellow. ????

[electsub]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:48 AM, Golden Triangle said:

Actually, you make a very valid point, my friend up north has the pink ID card, we were discussing this yesterday, he tells me that as yet he hasn't used it for anything, he said he may use it to register at his local hospital but he thinks all that is on offer is the Sinovac rubbish so he says he'll wait for something better.

 

So how many people use the pink ID card often and for what ??

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When I received my pink card was told at the time I could fly domestic without the use of my passport.  I have not used the card.

[Jingthing]

NOTE!

If you've got a PINK I.D. card obtained here (not from a lingerie store in Poughkeepsie) then for the purposes of this poll, PLEASE CHOOSE YES. 

[Mavideol]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:52 AM, Tagged said:

Not every hotel accepts DL, 

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but (for me) so far ALL hotels and airlines I have used accepted my Pink ID Card and some denied the DL

[holy cow cm]

  On 5/1/2021 at 10:24 AM, Pilotman said:

I would see a doctor about that mate, I'm not a medical man, but I'm fairly sure that whenever you have shouldn't  be pink and yellow. ????

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Are you referring to as using slang that I am married to a Chinese gal? No disrespect intended.

[electsub]

  On 5/1/2021 at 10:27 AM, Jingthing said:

NOTE!

If you've got a PINK I.D. card obtained here (not from a lingerie store in Poughkeepsie) then for the purposes of this poll, PLEASE CHOOSE YES. 

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Poughkeepsie 94.5 miles to get there from Brooklyn by car.  I asked google. 

[Yellowtail]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:26 AM, JAS21 said:

I have both ... I am waiting pen poised for your pole...
 

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yuck

[Neeranam]

  On 5/1/2021 at 9:34 AM, Jingthing said:

Sure.

Of course the reason I'm doing this poll NOW is that online registration for the Covid-19 vaccibe has opened up and it accepts Thai id card numbers (including from yellow book) but NOT Thai driver's license numbers or passport numbers.

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You should be asking how you get a Thai ID number and not doing silly polls. It isn't hard. 

[Yellowtail]

I used the pink ID to renew my DL a while back and did not need to show my passport, visa or certificate of residence. 

 

I also use it at the hospital I am registered at for social medical.