Foreigner Baby Born In Thailand!

[panoptil]

My wife (American) and I (Canadian) will have a baby within the next 8 months and we are in Thailand now for business. We were wondering what would be the advantages or the disadvantages to have the baby born in Thailand.

What about citizenship for the baby?

What about us.... about our Visa!!!

Would it be a good idea to have it here or it would be too complicated

Regards

Patrick

[technocracy]

My wife (American) and I (Canadian) will have a baby within the next 8 months and we are in Thailand now for business. We were wondering what would be the advantages or the disadvantages to have the baby born in Thailand.

What about citizenship for the baby?

What about us.... about our Visa!!!

Would it be a good idea to have it here or it would be too complicated

Regards

Patrick

You seem to be confusing 'using a Thai hospital to have a baby' and gaining citizenship! Your baby could only have citizenship to either/both the parents home countries OR a country which you have FULL citizenship to already. So for your baby to be born with Thai citizenship you or your wife would need to have citizenship already.

Our baby which is due in 3 months can be English (me), Lao (wife) or if we had the baby in an Australia hospital, australian since I hold full migrant visa for the country, but the baby is going to be born in Thailand however it CANNOT be Thai as we have no links to Thailand.

You can use hospitals anywhere in the global to have a baby but it doesn't mean the baby is automatically because a citizen of that country - it would make thinks rather confusing dontcha think! You can't just use the excuse of having a baby to gain yourself citizenship or visas!!!

Edited October 19, 2007 by technocracy

[britmaveric]

No advantages I'm afraid - will be canadian/yank.

[jumbo]

permanent residency also does the trick....

[technocracy]

permanent residency also does the trick....

Yes true - that what I meant also if you hold full legal residency or migrant status.

[LadyinRed]

It is not complicated to register your child with your respective embassies in BKK as long as both parents' names are in the child's (Thai) birth certificate.

I think your baby will hold both Canadian + American citizenship (e.g. citizenship by descent). Baby should be able to hold both citizenships, depending on the immigration laws of your country. If you are married it makes things a lot easier (paperwork wise).

There will not be any special visa/ citizenship for foreign children born in Thailand. You get the yellow book, which is a kind of house registration booklet. Apart from ease of application into schools in Thailand I have no idea what 'use' that book is for.

The only disadvantage of having a baby here is that your family and friends are not around.

[jstumbo]

You can use hospitals anywhere in the global to have a baby but it doesn't mean the baby is automatically because a citizen of that country - it would make thinks rather confusing dontcha think! You can't just use the excuse of having a baby to gain yourself citizenship or visas!!!

This works in the US. Happens all the time. They are called anchor babies.

People from Mexico that are in the US illegally have a baby and the baby gets citizenship since there is no requirement that the parent be in the US legally. Later if the parent is caught being in the US, sometimes 10+ years later they say that it would not be right to send the child back with the parents to Mexico because they grew up in the US.

Even if they send the parent out, when the child reaches 18, they can petition to have their parents get a visa to come to the US legally.

They really should change it so that the mother needs to be in the country legally for the child to gain US citizenship.

Jim

[smartecosse]

actually there is an advantage in the fact that a child born here is free to come and go without visa's until 18yrs of age

[Maestro]

...actually there is an advantage in the fact that a child born here is free to come and go without visa's until 18yrs of age

I believe the above information is wrong.

To leave Thailand, nobody needs a visa.

To return to Thailand, the airline will probably not allow the child to board the plane unless it has a visa or a confirmed onward flight out of Thailand within 30 days.

The Immigration Bureau currently has a policy of not collecting an overstay fine from children who stay in Thailand longer than allowed by their permission to stay but still stamp the passport with an overstay remark. The age limit for this overstay-fine exemption has variously been mentioned in this forum as 7 years or 14 years. No official published rule seems to exist.

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Maestro