Adding A Child To A House Book--Born In Uk

[CMDIVER]

I Have an interesting question, can anybody help please?

• my wife and i have 1 daughter, born in the UK
• she has a Thai passport that she entered Thailand on 4yrs ago issues by the Thai embassy in London,
• we wish to have her added to the tabien baan (house book) for our new house that is in my wife's name

We are being told this can not be done without a Thai birth cert. our daughters birth cert is English as she was born there. We are also told she can have authorised copy of the cert made for 5,000bhat by the Thai embassy in bkk. we live in Chiang mai.

can anyone throw any light on this or help out? surely as she was registered at birth at the Thai embassy in London and her passport issues by bkk passport authority she is already aTHai and can go on the paperwork?

i thought a Thai passport can not be issued without a thai birth cert? she has a passport but no thai birth cert?

[lopburi3]

There is no Thai Embassy in Thailand so not sure of the meaning with that. Believe Passport can be made on basis of foreign birth certificate and the Thai paperwork birth certificate is another item that you need to obtain at Thai Embassy in London. With that paper name can be entered on home register and when of age an ID card issued. Did you perhaps get another paper from Embassy when you were there?

[CMDIVER]

we were not issued anything other than her Thai passport, and in the passport with a stamp stating that she was a Thai national registered as an overseas birth.

when i say Thai embassy, i mean they are saying it needs to be a Thai birth certificate issued in Thailand.

if she does not have a Thai birth cert she will not be issued an id card either apparently.

[lopburi3]

Believe the Thai birth certificate has to be issued by the Embassy responsible for the country of birth when born outside of Thailand.

[Mario2008]

The Thai birth certificate need indeed to be issued by the amphur of the place the child was born, in case that is overseas the Thai embassy for that country acts as the local amphur.

It seems to me that your child already has a Thai birth certificate, as a passport will only be issued if one has a Thai birth certificate and the stamp in the passport also indicates that she was registered as an overseas birth.

If the birth was registered with the embassy it should be possible to get a certified copy of it. It might be possible to do that from any amphur, in case that is not possible it might need to come from the embassy in the UK. The price surprises me.

Contact the embassy to see if they can issue a certified copy by mail or if you can authorize someone to get a certified copy for you. If you have to apply in person it should be possible to get the copy through the consular section of the Ministry of Foreign affairs. They will then get it from the embassy in the UK for you.

http://www.thaiembassyuk.org.uk

http://www.consular.go.th/

[samran]

as others have said, she'll need to get a (re)issued Thai birth certificate from the Thai embassy in London.

Technically, she should have gotten one before she was issued the passport (it is printed on thin white paper with blue ink). It is entirely different to the birth certificate a person gets when they are born in Thailand.

Fortunately, you can apply for a thai birth certificate from the embassy by post. Check out the website of the Thai embassy in London and there will be a range of instructions on how to get one issued. Instructions are at the link below.

http://www.thaiembassyuk.org.uk/newversion/guidebirth.html

With that birth certificate and passport, she can be entered into the house registry book in Thailand. They will also put a note on the back of the birth certifcate when they do so.

Nevertheless it is important you get her on the house book if she is living in Thailand. Two reasons - firstly it is the law. Secondly she can't get a new passport issued inside of Thailand without being on the house book.

Don't stress out, you just have to start back at the embassy. Been through the whole process myself (for myself). You'll see that on this particular issue, the Thai bureacracy is pretty good, so long as you have all the paperwork.