Child Citizenship?

[vjoe]

Hi,

I have a Thai and US citizenship. My SO is a US citizen.

If we have a child in Thailand, will he/she be a Thai national and/or US national?

What if he/she is born in US?

I've lived in the US for a long time and do not know anything about the beaurocracy in Thailand.

thanks!

[GuestHouse]

US Citizen parents can register their child as a US Citizen where the child is born overseas provided that one of the parents is either born in the US or has spent seven years of their adult life in the US.

[vjoe]

US Citizen parents can register their child as a US Citizen where the child is born overseas provided that one of the parents is either born in the US or has spent seven years of their adult life in the US.

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Can the kid get Thai citizenship?

thx

[Patex]

I've heard,

everybody who is born in Thailand can get the Thai citizenship, even if both parents are non-Thai, correct me if I'm wrong

Patex

[Maestro]

everybody who is born in Thailand can get the Thai citizenship, even if both parents are non-Thai, correct me if I'm wrong

Wrong, but beside the point here, since the original poster’s SO (which in this context I take to mean “Significant Other”, presumably meaning spouse – I love acronyms and euphemisms! – but it could also mean a few other things with reference to a human) is a Thai national, in additon to being a US citizen.

Section 7. The following persons acquire Thai nationality by birth:

(1)    A person born of a father or a mother of Thai nationality, whether within or outside the Thai Kingdom;

Source: Thailand’s Nationality Act B.E. 2508

Therefore, the SO’s child can be both a Thai national and a US national.

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Maestro

“When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.” _ Oscar Wilde

[vjoe]

Thank you, maestro, that's what I am looking for.

yeap, SO = significant other

[Maestro]

yeap, SO = significant other

I used to know it as “better half”, a husband’s reference to his wife. Does SO have the same meaning, or is SO a wife’s reference to her husband? Acronymfinder.com does not say.