Thai Passport For My Baby In London Or Bkk

[NamF0n]

Ive an 16 month old daughter who was born in Thailand last year her mother is Thai and Father is British, thus she has dual nationality.

Anyway we got her a British passport in BKK last year which she used to come to the UK last November.

We are now looking to come back to Thailand to live, i know we can bring her in on her British passport but obviously she will only have a 30 day stamp.

Now its a real hassle for us both to get to London to get her a Thai passport, we've been told we both need to go.

So i am wondering would it be possible to bring her in on the British passport and get her Thai passport in BKK, but would it cause a lot of problems for us in the fact her British passport wont have a exit stamp and would we need to exit Thailand and effectively do a visa run for her.

[samran]

one way or another you are going to have to bite the bullet and do something inconvenient at some stage. Either:

- go to London to get the Thai PP sorted

- enter Thailand on the UK PP, get the Thai PP, and then effectively take her on a visa run by plane (land border passport swaps don't work).

I'd go the first choice.

[Mario2008]

You don't need to go both to the embassy, but both parents must have signed the passport application, so one of you could show up with the forms signed by you both and a written permisison from the parent who doesn't show up with copy of passport/ID. That should do the trick and I would ask the embassy about that.

If the child returns to Thailand without a Thai passport it will get 30 days without a visa, but can easily get 1 year extensions of stay on proof of Thai nationality. Alternatively she just stays on overstay in Thailand, which is not fined for children under 15, till the next time she leaves Thailand on the Uk-passport and re-enters on her Thai passport.