My stepdaughter will be traveling to Thailand on a US passport. When she arrives

she will renew her expired Thai ID card and Thai passport. My question is when

and if she returns to the US will she have any trouble with US immigration with her

US passport that shows her stamped into Thailand but not out and a visa that has probably

expired? I realize it would be a non issue if she had a valid Thai passport but am not

sure that she can get one in the US without a valid ID card. What happens if the visa

runs out before she leaves Thailand? I'm confused.

I'm doubt that she will have any trouble entering the US if she does not have a Thai exit stamp in her US passport; US immigration will surely only be concerned with her right to enter the US?

But she will probably have problems leaving Thailand if she enters on a US passport and tries to leave on a Thai one! See this post and subsequent ones in that topic.

She does not need a Thai ID card in order to renew her Thai passport in the US, or apply for her first one there.

If she does already have a Thai passport, but it will expire before her trip she can still use it to enter Thailand and then will have to renew it before she leaves.

I'm fairly sure the above is correct, but I'm moving this to the Thai visa forum, where you will probably get replies that are more expert than mine.

Leave Thailand with the same Passport you entered with.

Note that the ID card and Thai passport can only be renewed in Thailand if she is registered on a household registration book. Without that, she will not get a new Thai passport or ID-card. So she has to get first on the household registration of a family member.