Leaving Thailand with a dual citizen child

[4evermaat]

For the OP, why not do a smaller test. Visit a border country, like Malaysia for a few days for holiday. Before hand you can get the child's Thai passport if you want. You can do this via air, train, or bus/minibus. Then you can know for certain that you will not have any issues when making a longer trip.

Based on what others have reported, the Thai passport may not be an absolute requirement with the BC in hand, but I would imagine it'll be easier, especially down the road to renew.

[Sammy5]

I would just like to update you all on my situation. I am now in my home country with my daughter. Thank you all for the advice. For anyone else interested, I left Thailand with my daughter from Bangkok airport. She left on an Australian passport as she does not have a Thai passport. At check in the airline called immigration because they thought she could not leave Thailand on a blank Australian passport as she got the passport while she was in Thailand, however after an hour or two of stuffing around immigration said this was fine. They only asked to see her birth certificate. Interestingly, they did not ask to see a letter of consent from my husband. The only hiccup I had was to do with my visa which I had to pay for a 13 day overstay because I misunderstood the visa extension process!

 Thank you all for your advice. It was so helpful and supportive.

[Mario2008]

Good to see you went prepared with the birth certificate.

Immigation is mostly concerned with child trafficking. They actually have no powers to stop you if you take the child out of the coutry while having legal parental powers in Thailand as Thai law does not have child abduction laws. The other parent would need to have sole parental powers for immigration/police to stop you.

[David48]

To good a thread to be archived ...

[Patsycat]

I like threads like this with happy endings. Good luck and i hope your daughter grows up happy and healthy. Surrounded with love.

I guess your husband is ranting and raving and calling you all the names under the sun. Let him, you are in a better place now.

There is no excuse for violence, whether physical or emotional when there are kids involved. Or even without kids involved.

Good luck.