Getting a Thai License - Thai daughter.

[JAG]

The whole driving test system, web based and bureaucratic, is a cranky almost impenetrable mess. My daughter is trying to get a motorcycle license - she is 19, a Thai national and has a Western name and looks Caucasian. The system initially refused her because her Thai ID card photo "didn't look like her".

 

Off we went to the Amphur office for a new one, because she is under 20 I had to accompany her, much group examination of my passport, sucking of teeth, phone calls to higher ups and photocopying of many pages of the passport and her birth certificate. Eventually, armed with a new ID card she went back to the driving license office. Refused - the system (computer and human) wouldn't accept she was Thai!

 

Probably going to have to hire one of those agent chappies to get her one!

[JimHuaHin]

Thai xenophobia as its best.

 

If, however, she was a elite Thai sports person, actress, or beauty queen - no problems.

[KhunBENQ]

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[ikke1959]

indeed 1000 copies later and still they refuse although it is obvious with her birth certificate that she is Thai.. But in Thailand easy things are being made complicated first and than suddenly they switch for an unknown reason... Maybe no license needed as many Thais don't have one, you can always claim that the Land Department refused to give her a driverslicense