Having A Baby In Thailand

[lexrose07]

i wonder if anyone can advise, im from bonnie scotland and as many guys here i have a thai fiancee, note, not married as of yet, we are about to have a little boy in less than 2 months and im trying to find out if there is anything i need to do as to his british status, obviousely my fiancee knows what to do with registering here in thailand and im aware its important for my name and nationality to be clearly marked on his birth certificate, but so he can be entitled to british passport also when he is older ie: dual nationality, do i need to do anything with the british birth registry or british embassy? any info would be great.

oh and we are trying to come up with a good name that is a mix between british and thai, we got a few ideas but open to hearing suggestions.

thanks.

[farangmal]

i wonder if anyone can advise, im from bonnie scotland and as many guys here i have a thai fiancee, note, not married as of yet, we are about to have a little boy in less than 2 months and im trying to find out if there is anything i need to do as to his british status, obviousely my fiancee knows what to do with registering here in thailand and im aware its important for my name and nationality to be clearly marked on his birth certificate, but so he can be entitled to british passport also when he is older ie: dual nationality, do i need to do anything with the british birth registry or british embassy? any info would be great.

oh and we are trying to come up with a good name that is a mix between british and thai, we got a few ideas but open to hearing suggestions.

thanks.

You are in the same position I found myself in a couple of years ago to. I'm from Scotland also and we had a little boy, born in Thailand out of Marriage.

If you want to get the child a British passport then Marry Her. If born out of wedlock the child can only take the Mothers Nationality, not the Fathers.

So, no entitlement to a British passport.

After you Marry (a proper Marriage) and can prove a commitment to each other the child will be entitled to a British passport. But Immigration in the Uk will argue the child is not, but the Home office will grant one if you are British otherwise by descent (born in the UK) and the childs birth certificate has an official English translation.

I took my Wife to Scotland and we Married here. Immigration were insistent my child (born out of wedlock) couldn't get a British passport until His Mother got hers (makes it harder to deport if her kid's got one) the Nationality checking service at the Home office told me immigration was wrong and so did the UK passport office who gave him a British passport after checking all our papers.

Marry her if you want your kid to have your Nationality.

Edited January 5, 2008 by farangmal

[Boo]

that information is now wrong, the law changed very recently & unmarried fathers are now allowed to pass on their citizenship. There are some other requirements relating to the fathers own citizenship but there is now no requirement for marriage.

There have been numerous thread about this in both this section & the family section so search the forum & you should get a lot of more info.

just remembered that scouse has done a sticky here which covers it all.

[lexrose07]

thanks for the info boo, i checked out scousers info and was what im looking for, it led me to the right pages at the embassy too, cheers

[phuketrichard]

as far as Americans go for anyone. My child was born out of wedlock. All we did was fil, out a Consular report birth of US citizen abroad and had 2 people verify that we had been together (gf and I0 and the baby was ours.

That gave her her us passport and then we got her thai passport. That was 13 years ago and never any trouble.

[teacher]

that information is now wrong, the law changed very recently & unmarried fathers are now allowed to pass on their citizenship. There are some other requirements relating to the fathers own citizenship but there is now no requirement for marriage.

Your right the rules changed in 1st July 2006 so any child born after that date the parents do not need to be married.

When the baby is born ensure your name is on the certificate.

Then you have one year to register the baby and that can be done at the British Embassy in Bangkok. The fee for this is 10,872 to register and whilst your doing that you can complete the "C2 FORM" for a passport for your child, the cost for that is 5,472 bt and it's for five years.

The registration and passport fees are payable to the embassy. You will also need to leave 100bt for postage and you will recieve them all back with two weeks.

Look at www.britishembassy.gov/birthregistration all info is there for you...............

[CharlieB]

that information is now wrong, the law changed very recently & unmarried fathers are now allowed to pass on their citizenship. There are some other requirements relating to the fathers own citizenship but there is now no requirement for marriage.

Your right the rules changed in 1st July 2006 so any child born after that date the parents do not need to be married.

When the baby is born ensure your name is on the certificate.

Then you have one year to register the baby and that can be done at the British Embassy in Bangkok. The fee for this is 10,872 to register and whilst your doing that you can complete the "C2 FORM" for a passport for your child, the cost for that is 5,472 bt and it's for five years.

The registration and passport fees are payable to the embassy. You will also need to leave 100bt for postage and you will recieve them all back with two weeks.

Look at www.britishembassy.gov/birthregistration all info is there for you...............

I can confirm this as we have just received my daughters birth UK certificate and passport in the last couple of weeks. You can also pay by credit/debit card in the embassy. I got there during a tropical rainstorm and found I only had 14k baht on me.