Govt to slash red tape on Thai naturalization

BANGKOK: -- The government is to cut the bureaucracy surrounding requests for Thai citizenship, Interior Minister Bhokin Bhalakula announced today.

Requests for naturalization normally fall under one of two categories: people who have always lived in Thailand and speak Thai, and foreigners married to Thai nationals.

Mr. Bhokin, who earlier this year was embroiled in a controversy concerning the naturalization of hill tribe residents of Mae Ai district in Thailand's northern province of Chiang Rai, said that the Interior Ministry was now laying down less complicated rules for naturalization.

--TNA 2004-12-22

Does this mean it will be easier for farangs with Thai wives???

Or will we still have the "salary" hurdle to clear??

and foreigners married to Thai nationals

That will be interesting to see how that comes out.

Yes.

Thank you George.

Good news at last.

Lets see................

hmm, getting exciting.

i don't think anytime soon

hmm, getting exciting.

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Govt to slash red tape on Thai naturalization 

BANGKOK: -- The government is to cut the bureaucracy surrounding requests for Thai citizenship, Interior Minister Bhokin Bhalakula announced today.

Requests for naturalization normally fall under one of two categories: people who have always lived in Thailand and speak Thai, and foreigners married to Thai nationals.

Mr. Bhokin, who earlier this year was embroiled in a controversy concerning the naturalization of hill tribe residents of Mae Ai district in Thailand's northern province of Chiang Rai, said that the Interior Ministry was now laying down less complicated rules for naturalization.

--TNA 2004-12-22

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Great news if it's really true!

I'm gonna apply and become a blue-eyed and snowy-blond Thai.

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Snowleopard

Requests for naturalization normally fall under one of two categories: people who have always lived in Thailand and speak Thai, and foreigners married to Thai nationals.

Assuming there is anything to this report and it doesn't turn out to be total b.s. like the five-year visa story, I'll guarantee you that of the two categories of applicants mentioned, this helping hand is aimed at the former group much more than the latter. Quoting myself from the other thread, "In over ten years experience in-and-out of Thailand, I've never once been under the impression that any of the Thai authorities were looking for a way to provide foreigners with a quick and easy alternative to Permanent Residence". This caveat goes double for the powers-that-be potentially offering Thai citizenship to foreigners.

Does this mean it will be easier for farangs with Thai wives???

Or will we still have the "salary" hurdle to clear??

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To be fair it should be based on the same salary that a typical Thai earns ...

so..@

20bt an hour times say 10 hours a day X again lets say 365 days a year=73,000 baht a year minus tax,hols social security,insurance,bus / tuk-tuk fares,little bit of chop and beer dosh............and ................hey we will ALL qualify. ....and pigs will f..

hi'

it's well known that all foreigners who could qualify for Thai nationality all write, read and speak fluent Thai, and they can sing the national anthem by heart

and all would like to be Thai ...

may be good for hilltribes, they can at least get what they need to be legal.

francois

Did you notice it did noy say anything about easier to get PR.. You have to clear that hurdle befor this would click into effect and changes to PR are not going to happen soon.