Hello I'm new to this site can anyone shed some light for me please.

I'm from the uk and my daughter was born last month in hua hin Thailand. Please advise what I have to do to get her a uk passport please. And also do I need to registair the birth in the uk embassy.

Regards

Chris

Get the birth certificate and marriage certificate translated into English along with the wifes ID card (or birth certificate) by a certified translator (about 100bht a page)

Your, long style birth certificate (available from the GRO online if you don't have it, about 10UKP)

Your passport.

Two photos of the baby, passport style (the hardest bit of the process, will the kid stay still, no she won't)

Take it all along to the British consulate and fill in a load of forms, they will tell you the current price (approx 15KBht for passport + consular birth registration). Anyone can countersign the passport, Thai foreigner, anyone.

You will need to get a bank cheque made out using the wording they provide, BK bank will do it for about 60bht

Back to the consulate with everything, plus about 200bht for the consulate in cash.

They make photcopies and give you back all the original documents.

That's about it, in the next 6 weeks everythiung arrives in the post.

You don't need to do the consular birth registration, it halfs the price if you don't (I did it).

Edited January 15, 201214 yr by ludditeman

Will I be able to skip the part about wife's ID and kid's birth certificate translated into English - because we already did this bit a couple of years ago when the kid was born? Just bring the UK Consul registration doc instead?

(plus of course my own passport/birth certificate)

(and some phots of the nipper)

(and payment..............but this has changed now hasnt it? Or can we pay at BKK Consulate even if passport is sorted at HK?)

Thanks very me and my girlfriend are not married we are going to apply for a settlement visa lived together both countries now for over 730 days the requirement.

Cheers

When I was in the other day they were insisting on the wife's ID. This is not a requirement for the birth registration document as stipulated on the form, but they were asking. However both myself and another man doing the same said we didn't have them and they processed the form anyway.

The benefit is doing the birth registration is that your child will be registered with the National Register in England and, if you ever want to take them there to live, this should make things easier on you/them. Further to this it lowers the amount of paperwork that needs to be sent with the passport application. As another poster has stated, it is not necessary, but if you have the money it is probably worth it.

Definitely worth registering the birth, within the first year (?), as it gets more complicated to establish your childrens' right to UK-nationality, when you leave it longer. KISS-principle applies !

And congratulations to both of you !