How Best To Travel With Thai-Canadian Baby, Visa-Free-Wise If Possible

[thaitang]

My wife and I are tentatively planning a return visit to Canada for Xmas this year with our daughter who will be 11 months at the time. The daughter has already received her Canadian certificate of birth, proving her Canadian citizenship, so I am wondering the best way to travel with her.

1) because daughter was born in Thai and has never yet left the country, she must therefore leave Thai with a Thai passport that gets exit stamp

2) in order to enter Canada daughter could use Canadian passport, except, if she exits on Thai passport and wants to re-enter Thai on Thai passport, she must get the entry/exit stamp from another country, and so must then have a Canadian visa and enter/exit Canada with Thai passport instead.

And because I do not have much knowledge of immigration procedures, I was wondering if it is possible to enter Canada showing a Canadian passport and get an entry stamp in Thai passport also, which I think seems highly unlikely since it would require understanding and co-operation from an immigration official that is not my experience when returning to Canada from Thai.

I cannot see how things can be tried the other way around, that is, leaving Thai on Canadian passport, since daughter was born in Thai and thus would have no entry stamp showing entry into Thai in her Canadian passport, applied for from Canadian embassy in BKK

So it seems to me then that I will have to apply for a Canadian visa for my daughter in her Thai visa in order to return home with me for a visit, returning again afterward with me to Thai. Does that sound about right, or I hope I just do not see or understand some very obvious solution.

I guess my ultimate goal would be to save the $60 or so bucks for a Canadian visa, and spend that money on a Canadian passport instead. Otherwise the wife and I will apply for her Thai passport getting just the Canadian visa with no need for a Canadian passport at this time.

[7by7]

The procedure for dual nationals is very simple; my wife and daughter, dual Thai/British, and thousands of other dual nationals follow it without any problems.

On leaving Thailand:

• Show Canadian passport to airline at check in so they know she doesn't need a visa for Canada.
  
• Show Thai passport to Thai immigration..
  

On arrival in Canada

• Show Canadian passport to Canadian immigration.
  

On leaving Canada

• Show Thai passport to airline at check in so they know she doesn't need a visa for Thailand
  
• Show Canadian passport to Canadian immigration.
  

On arrival in Thailand

• Show Thai passport to Thai immigration.
  

That her Canadian passport wont have a Thai exit stamp in it is of no concern to Canadian immigration; all they'll be interested in is whether she can enter Canada or not; which she can as a Canadian citizen.

Likewise, that her Thai passport will not have Canadian entry and exit stamps in it will be of no concern to Thai immigration for the same reason.