Parental consent form for Thai wife

[KruAlastair]

My Thai wife wants to take our daughter to South Korea for a few days. I can't go. She says I need to write a consent form to do this but because I'm British I have to do it at the embassy. Anyone done this before is this really necessary? What documents would I need and looking online the British embassy doesn't seem to offer notorising services anymore. 

[brewsterbudgen]

2 minutes ago, KruAlastair said:

My Thai wife wants to take our daughter to South Korea for a few days. I can't go. She says I need to write a consent form to do this but because I'm British I have to do it at the embassy. Anyone done this before is this really necessary? What documents would I need and looking online the British embassy doesn't seem to offer notorising services anymore. 

Does your daughter have a Thai passport?  If so, I can't see any issue with her travelling from Thailand with her Thai mother.  I doubt there's anything the British Embassy can or will do.

[KruAlastair]

2 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Does your daughter have a Thai passport?  If so, I can't see any issue with her travelling from Thailand with her Thai mother.  I doubt there's anything the British Embassy can or will do.

She does, she has both Thai and UK passports but wife is concerned about the small print on the form she made for me at the amphur. The amphur wouldn't let me write one for her and said I have to do it at the British embassy . I was like seriously? (I'm taking our daughter to the UK after she gets back from Korea)

[fredwiggy]

A passport is in actuality the only thing a minor needs to travel, as it's a signed permission to travel by both parents, but some agents don't see it that way. I've heard of many who just went and showed the passport and were allowed but when I went, I made sure my ex signed a letter, with her phone number, that "allowed" our daughter to travel to the US with me. The lady at Suvarnibhumi asked for one, and after I showed her, asked to call my ex, which she did and it was okay. This shouldn't happen as noted before but with humans you'll get all kinds of different ideas on what's legal or not. Best to just get a signed, and maybe notarized letter from your wife. Those remarks at the bottom seem to be when applying for a passport, where both parents need to be there, as I and my ex, along with my daughter, are going to the US embassy soon to renew our daughter's passport, and if one parent can't attend, has to get a notarized statement allowing permission to grant the passport.

[brewsterbudgen]

1 hour ago, KruAlastair said:

She does, she has both Thai and UK passports but wife is concerned about the small print on the form she made for me at the amphur. The amphur wouldn't let me write one for her and said I have to do it at the British embassy . I was like seriously? (I'm taking our daughter to the UK after she gets back from Korea)

As @fredwiggy has said, that looks like it's for applying for a Thai passport.  My wife has taken my (British) son overseas many times without me before and nothing has ever been said at the airport/s.

[Bangel72]

Do they have the same second names and are they both travelling on their Thai passports?  Not sure if marraige would even factor in, in that case.

 

I ran into a few issues taking my son abroad, I had signed consent forms from the mother(not married), amphur initially told us no problems.

 

Him leaving on his thai passport with different name from myself, had birth certificate and also legal guardianship documents.

 

Airport, 2am they were calling his mother, wanted letter from amphur with the specific flight details on it. They let us through eventually but bit of hassle.

 

Also to get his thai passport renewed I had to sign, mother could not do it alone. 

 

So for me more checking than I expected.

 

However for the other way around, I've not heard if it was him and her on thai passports with same name then not sure I'd be needed, and also agree uk embassy may not do this, risk passes to them.