What exactly is a Thai pink ID card?

[flexomike]

4 hours ago, Blueman1 said:

I've Had a PINK ID Card for a Few Years now,But Do You Know that @Kasikorn Bank Will NOT Accept it in Nong Khai ( MAIN Branch)  Will NOT Accept it to either let you WITHDRAW Or Even DEPOSIT Cash into Your OWN Account....Very Arrogant Tellers too......

If your bank accounts were in Thai they would let you use it. Pink card is in Thai so doesn't match your English name on your bank account.

[KhunLA]

56 minutes ago, khunPer said:

Advantages are that you have a Thai ID-number – which will be same number as TIN –  and you can use it as both address and picture identification. You'll need to be registered on an address in a so-called yellow house book for foreigners, before you can have an ID-card for a foreigner.

 

Disadvantage are the paperwork that you need to do – including bringing two witnesses to prove whio you are and where you live – the time spend and the cost of an approved offcial translation of you passport's name page.

Office dependent, as I didn't need any of that.

[richard_smith237]

36 minutes ago, flexomike said:

I live in Rayong, for my first two renewals the yellow book and pink card were good. Last year they said have to have a Certificate of residence, 140 km round trip. I am still good for five more years as I got almost six years out of my renewal.

 

I think thats a lot of the issue many of us have with such beurocratic interactions and often interactions in general, experiences vary from province to province, often even from officer to officer...   Then we fall under the assumption or misunderstanding that 'these are the hard rules'...  Or better still, 'someone wasn't dressed respectfully etc'....   

... A lack of clearly documented coherent consistency across provinces, from office to office, and offerer to officer would go a long way to saving us a lot of time and effort and also, debate.

 

 

I fully expect my next driving license renewal to go swimmingly, it always has - yet I'm mentally prepared for the....    "cannot, you need a notarised photocopy of an imprint of your right-foot, verified by the DLT head-office, along with an affirmation of freedom to drive from your embassy" ....    of course thats the exaggerated version and far from close to any resonable reality... but we see the minor variations already, and we've all been tripped up by something ' not being he same as it was last time' enough times....

 

 

 

 

[Ralf001]

2 hours ago, sandyf said:

I didn't do it, the government hospital did it for me, had it within 2 hours of the rollout starting.

A benefit of the pink card.

that aint a benefit.

[richard_smith237]

3 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

priority booking a covid vax.... bwahahahahahahahah.

 

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[The Old Bull]

When the pink card first came out it was of little use because nobody knew what it was. Now it is very useful, changing money at the bank, checking in to hotels. I get the Thai rate in the village clinic and the hospital dental clinic.

[scorecard]

11 hours ago, Blueman1 said:

I've Had a PINK ID Card for a Few Years now,But Do You Know that @Kasikorn Bank Will NOT Accept it in Nong Khai ( MAIN Branch)  Will NOT Accept it to either let you WITHDRAW Or Even DEPOSIT Cash into Your OWN Account....Very Arrogant Tellers too......

Depends on the branch.

 

A few years back I went to to my K Bank branch at Big C Don Chan Chiang Ma, I had been issued a new passport. I tried to use my old passport number for something and it was rejected because the bank records showed the passport had expired.

 

So I went to my bank to give them / show them my new passport number.

 

The teller supervisor (excellent English) saw my pink card and instantly asked 'is this for Thai PR?' I confirmed it was.

 

Bank supervisor then said 'the bank now prefers to record your Thai pink card number, not your passport number because the Thai id number is for lifetime so it can never expire and you will never have to update it, which means less computer transactions over a long period and no chance of rejection because the number has expired by date. . 

 

She then took my pink card read the Thai ID number to the teller who typed it immediately into the bank database.

 

She also mentioned 'other banks are now doing the same thing.'  Supervisor then returned the pink card and new passport to me.