I am wishing to change my thai wife's name and step-son's name to my surname. We have been marrieed for 3 years and both have permanent residency in Australia.We now live in Queensland Australia . Contacted Birth /D/Marr. office as the fathers name is still on the Birth Cert.Before coming to Australia we went to the Local registrar in her district applied for a form Chor 1. stating that the father has not been around for 6 years and that the mother was sole carer. We received back a letter from the Distrct Office on a Offical Plastic covered statement with offical seal affixed proving that she was acknowledge as sole carer for her son and his name had changed to mothers surname.

Question is , when talking to B/D/Marr. office in Qld. mention was made of applying for s form 5 court order through the Queensland Court system to prove that she has sole custody.

Has anyone been through this before or is the above evidence from thailand sufficent.

Thanks.

I think you might get more responses in the visa and migraiton to foreign countries section, so I move it to there.