Baby Born Thailand Will It Get Aussie Citizenship?

[krisb]

Howdy all, ok I posted a thread a couple weeks back about my wife having our baby here, but now she wants to have the baby at home with her Mum and sisters around in the Thai hospital. Thats fair enough. My question is will the baby get an Australian citizenship easily since Im Australian?

I know I really need to ask the Embassy etc etc, just wanted to hear from any others that have been through this....cheers.

[edwinclapham]

http://www.citizensh...born_overseas/#

You apply through the Australian Embassy.

Samran has a post. http://www.thaivisa....te-help-needed/ Post No 6.. there is an abundance of info on this thread.

Edited June 17, 2012 by edwinclapham

[krisb]

http://www.citizensh...born_overseas/#

You apply through the Australian Embassy.

Samran has a post. http://www.thaivisa....te-help-needed/ Post No 6.. there is an abundance of info on this thread.

Thankyou mate

[jingjoe8]

http://www.citizensh...born_overseas/#

You apply through the Australian Embassy.

Samran has a post. http://www.thaivisa....te-help-needed/ Post No 6.. there is an abundance of info on this thread.

Thankyou mate

You are also entitled to the $5000 baby bonus, as long as you earned less than $78000 last year,i'm about to apply for mine..my son was born last october in thailand

[redfish44]

Our baby got her citizenship by descent about 4 weeks after she was born (it states the date she became a citizen on the certificate.

Took 10 days.

My tip would be get the forms for both citizenship and passport application before he birth and put them in your hospital bag, with a BLACK pen (they can be picky about that). Then when baby is born you get the doctor that delivered bubs to sign the form and the back of the photo before you leave hospital.

Is not neccessary to take bubs into the embassy, although they actually let our baby and my thai hubby in the day we did the paperwork. Theoretically anyone can lodge the application as long as it is all filled in ok, and you have the cash to pay.

Would also recommend getting certified copies of he certificate made when you are in Aus next as costs to get them done at the embassy.

Good luck : )

[krisb]

Our baby got her citizenship by descent about 4 weeks after she was born (it states the date she became a citizen on the certificate.

Took 10 days.

My tip would be get the forms for both citizenship and passport application before he birth and put them in your hospital bag, with a BLACK pen (they can be picky about that). Then when baby is born you get the doctor that delivered bubs to sign the form and the back of the photo before you leave hospital.

Is not neccessary to take bubs into the embassy, although they actually let our baby and my thai hubby in the day we did the paperwork. Theoretically anyone can lodge the application as long as it is all filled in ok, and you have the cash to pay.

Would also recommend getting certified copies of he certificate made when you are in Aus next as costs to get them done at the embassy.

Good luck : )

Now thats 10/10 for cluey thinking! Thanks for that idea. When you say sign the photo, obviously thats the babies passport photo? So after its born go get a passport pic of baby done then go back and see dr right? Edited July 31, 2012 by krisb

[harrry]

Remember the forms says that the babys citizenship claim must be lodged at an Australian Embassy abroad. It is much easier to do this than claim in Australia.

[ripstanley]

http://www.citizensh...born_overseas/#

You apply through the Australian Embassy.

Samran has a post. http://www.thaivisa....te-help-needed/ Post No 6.. there is an abundance of info on this thread.

Thankyou mate

You are also entitled to the $5000 baby bonus, as long as you earned less than $78000 last year,i'm about to apply for mine..my son was born last october in thailand

This link is helpful re baby bonus. If you live full time in Thailand you are not eliigible.

http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink/baby-bonus

To be eligible for Baby Bonus, you must be an Australian resident.

This means that you have been living in Australia on a permanent basis and are either:

• an Australian citizen or
  
• the holder of a permanent resident visa or
  
• the holder of a special category visa (that is, you arrived on a New Zealand passport) or
  
• the holder of a particular temporary visa—either a “partner provisional”, “interdependency”, or “temporary protection” visa.
  

Your child must also meet the above requirements and must be living with you.

Note: If you have recently arrived in Australia or are temporarily residing overseas, you may need to provide evidence to support your intention to live in Australia permanently.

[redfish44]

Now thats 10/10 for cluey thinking! Thanks for that idea. When you say sign the photo, obviously thats the babies passport photo? So after its born go get a passport pic of baby done then go back and see dr right?

Our baby was born at Samitivej and they took her photo before I was even really concious of what was going on (Aus embassy says they do really good photos there).

They also took care of the birth certificate and official translation with stamp (for a fee, that I was happy to pay as meant I didn't have to do it - not the time to be playing with the ministry of Foreign Affairs).

We were given the photos with her birth certificate and translation (with stamp) in a book thing when we checked out of the hospital.

I took the photos and the form to her follow up 1 week appointment with her pediatrician as even though I had the forms in the bag, I had had a cesear and was a bit dopey I forgot to get him to sign the passport application one, even though he used to chat to me daily as part of his rounds.

As it was me giving birth, I tried to mummy-proof as much as possible and filled out as much of the forms as I could BEFORE labour etc, and had them all in the bag, ready to go a month before bubs arrived.

I had bought a cutesy-pie Hello Kitty folder all the forms went in and sticky taped a black pen to the front of it (pregnant ladies often get a stationary fixation). I stuck birghtly coloured post it notes onto the bits that needed signing. I also had all the photocopies of ID cards, passports, tabien baan, marriage cert etc (with post-its "copy" and "original" where apropriate) in the folder too.

Hubby new this folder was to be used to get the paperwork for the baby in case something happened to me (I think I had contact details for family back in aus too, and health insurance details and phone numbers just in case).

Of course I didn't actually take the hospital bag the day she was born... she came early as took me by suprise... but when hubby went home to get the bag, it was all in there, ready to go.

Make sure you also put a little ruler (like one of the cheap 15cm foldy 7-11 ones or one of the paper Index or IKEA tape measures) in with the stuff to check the size of the head shot when you get the photo in your hand, as the staff at the embassy actually were very picky on that (it is also on the form). The baby picture from Samitivej passed thier scrutiny (my own photo done at a photo place specialising in Aussie photos didn't!).

If you need to get the photos done somewhere else and you haven't been into the embassy yet, you can ask the embassy where is recomended as they told me a good place to get my passport shot done (gave me a little card with a map to a place down the road).

I would also recomed putting a change of clothes and a razor for daddy into the hosptial bag NOW, as my hubby never got around to this and regretted it (as our bubs caught us out, we thought we had 18 days to go).

[redfish44]

I can't remember if you needed a photo for citizenship as well, but it is easier to get the doctor to sign both forms at once anyway.

They process the citizenship by descent and then the passport application can be lodged once the citizenship has been accepted.

They both cost 4000b and took 10 days (from memory- which is hazy, even though it was onlya year).

You can call the embassy and chat also - and check the times the citizenship application section is open, as is not all day, and may not even be every day.

Definitely recomend going in and getting the forms early though.

[jingjoe8]

only problem i have is,i am an australian citizen with oz passport and was even in the royal australian navy for a short time,but because i was born in new zealand, i have to show my original birth certificate and citizenship papers to register my son as an australian and get a passport.

Might be easier just to get an nz passport/citizenship

[krisb]

only problem i have is,i am an australian citizen with oz passport and was even in the royal australian navy for a short time,but because i was born in new zealand, i have to show my original birth certificate and citizenship papers to register my son as an australian and get a passport.

Might be easier just to get an nz passport/citizenship

Well if your an oz citizen wouldnt that be the answer? Aust and NZ are kinda related Im sure your problem could be sorted without to much pain. The worst thing Ive had so far is waiting on hold to talk to someone at immigration. Last call was my new record 45mins. By the time I got through, to a really helpful fella actually, I had started to forget what I had rung for.