What's the deal with being born in Thailand? Is that enough to qualify for citizenship

[RubenRemus]

I keep seeing conflicting reports on this and I just don't really get it. I always thought that being born in Thailand was not sufficient to qualify for Thai citizenship - one or more parents must also be Thai citizens. Did I have it wrong? Both my kids were born here, but mom and dad aren't Thai and haven't lived in Thailand beyond the last year or two. 

[Soda Soda]

Your kids are not Thai.

They are whatever the parents are.

[Mac Mickmanus]

To automatically  get Thai Citizenship , a Child must have al least one Thai Parent .

   There is a problem that a large amount of "Thais" living in Thailand do not have Thai citizenship , often from Families near border towns or hill tribe people , estimated that there's about 2-3 million people living legally in Thailand without  Thai citizenship .

   To end statelessness , the Thai Government has a system in place where Children that were born in Thailand (to non Thai parents) can get Thai citizenship if they attended Thai state School , have never left Thailand and have no affiliation to any other Country (Passport or Citizenship) and they get given Thai citizenship when leaving School 

[ubonjoe]

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[Etaoin Shrdlu]

I understand that children born of two parents who hold permanent resident status acquire Thai nationality at birth. Other than this one exception, at least one parent must be a Thai citizen in order to confer Thai citizenship.

[FriendlyFarang]

The Wikipedia article gives more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_nationality_law

[ubonjoe]

6 minutes ago, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

I understand that children born of two parents who hold permanent resident status acquire Thai nationality at birth.

That is not correct. There is a process that may allow them to apply for Thai nationality.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Just now, ubonjoe said:

That is not correct. There is a process that may allow them to apply for Thai nationality.

Thanks, Joe. I stand corrected, then.

 

[connda]

51 minutes ago, Soda Soda said:

Your kids are not Thai.

They are whatever the parents are.

Unlike American - there ain't no "Anchor Baby" law here. 
Sorry.  You're out of luck.  You should have done you're homework.

[RubenRemus]

On 6/11/2022 at 4:48 PM, connda said:

Unlike American - there ain't no "Anchor Baby" law here. 
Sorry.  You're out of luck.  You should have done you're homework.

No homework needed. It's not really something of serious interest - just curiosity. 

Edited June 15, 2022 by RubenRemus

[BangkokReady]

On 6/11/2022 at 4:02 PM, Mac Mickmanus said:

To end statelessness , the Thai Government has a system in place where Children that were born in Thailand (to non Thai parents) can get Thai citizenship if they attended Thai state School , have never left Thailand and have no affiliation to any other Country (Passport or Citizenship) and they get given Thai citizenship when leaving School 

So could the child of a Western couple (non-Thai) get Thai citizenship this way?

[FriendlyFarang]

9 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

So could the child of a Western couple (non-Thai) get Thai citizenship this way?

Only if the child is stateless, but that's a quite unlikely scenario.

[Excel]

11 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

So could the child of a Western couple (non-Thai) get Thai citizenship this way?

Why would they want to ?

[Mac Mickmanus]

9 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

So could the child of a Western couple (non-Thai) get Thai citizenship this way?

I don't think so, because one of the requirements for getting Thai citizenship this way is that the Child has no affiliation to any other Country , like they cannot get citizenship from any other Country .

  Some kids have got Thai citizenship having just one felang parent , but thats when contact has been lost with that (felang)  Parent and it would be difficult to convince the authorities that both parents are uncontactable .