Changing Child'S Name On Thai Birth Certificate

[Skypist]

Quite a strange question here even if I say so myself. My son was born in Thailand and so has a Thai Birth Certificate and an English translated copy, as well as a British passport. As yet no Thai passport.

On his Thai documents it does not include a middle name, unlike on his British passport. Our priority is to change this by giving him a Thai middle name on his Thai certificate before getting him a Thai passport. His British passport has an English middle name at the moment, which I guess we could change at a later date in England.

The basis of my question really is could you foresee a problem for him to have a different name on his Thai documents than on his British ones?

[samran]

As long as his first and surnames are the same, then it shouldn't be a problem, especially when travelling and using two passports.

My Australian passport doesn't include my Thai middle name 'Samran', only my Anglised middle name. My Thai passport has both middle names.

Not a problem in more than 20 years.

Most Thai's don't even have middle names. The fact that I have two is a source of amusement each time I am dealing with the bureacracy.

Don't worry - you'll never need to mix documents anyway. Thai documents usually only get seen in thailand - just like a normal Thai with the one citizenship. Non-Thai docs (ie British in your case) get seen in the UK, and of course, no need to show Thai docs there.

Never the twain shall they meet!

[chris5346]

i'm not sure but i would have thought if the names were different booking things like return flights maybe tricky ?

if you fly between thailand and uk, when you arrive in thailand show the thai passport with no visa etc needed and vice versa ? i guess you can do that anyway even if the names are slightly different on the boarding card.

how did you manage to get different names ? when i applied for uk birth certificate and passport i had to show the thai birth certificate and was told the names had to be identacle.