The quest is how does a person get a Thai resident card and passport if all I have is my Thai birth certificate and Thai paper work showing I moved out of the county? My parents moved me out of Thailand when I was four years old. That was over 36 years ago. My citizenship was changed when I was younger to U.S citizenship. I have a U.S. passport now but would like to see if I can have my cousin add me to their house address so I can have a Thai resident card and passport. How hard would it be and will I need any thing more?

Thanks in advance for any information

You do not need to be on home register or have ID card to obtain a passport. You do that at Consulate in US using your birth certificate. After you have passport you get onto home register and obtain ID card in my understanding.

Have a look here if you can have Thai nationality.

http://www.thaiembassy.org.au/migration_info.pdf This is from the Thai embassy in Australia, but the rules are the same everywhere.

The quest is how does a person get a Thai resident card and passport if all I have is my Thai birth certificate and Thai paper work showing I moved out of the county? My parents moved me out of Thailand when I was four years old. That was over 36 years ago. My citizenship was changed when I was younger to U.S citizenship. I have a U.S. passport now but would like to see if I can have my cousin add me to their house address so I can have a Thai resident card and passport. How hard would it be and will I need any thing more?

Thanks in advance for any information

easy.

Get your Thai passport at the Thai embassy in the states.

Enter Thailand on the Thai passport.

Go to the local Ampur where your cousin lives and ask to be put on the house register. Explain the situation that you've lived overseas since you were 4, and need to get an ID card. They may need a little while to figure out the rules, but in my experience doing the same thing they needed my birth certificate and my Thai passport showing when I was stamped into the country.

The person who is the head of the household must formally give permission to go on the house registration.

Once that is done, then you can get the ID card at the ampur also.

The Thai consulate here in Los Angeles will not give me a Thai passport because I do not have some paper work they require. Sounded like they did not want to help at all and I was bothering them. So I hopping I can get a residency card in Thailand along with my Thai passport. Will thanks for all the advice and I will see what happens when I get to Thailand on June 16, 2008.

The Thai consulate here in Los Angeles will not give me a Thai passport because I do not have some paper work they require. Sounded like they did not want to help at all and I was bothering them. So I hopping I can get a residency card in Thailand along with my Thai passport. Will thanks for all the advice and I will see what happens when I get to Thailand on June 16, 2008.

good luck with it in Thailand.

let us know how it all goes.