My Thai wife just had a baby this week in Thailand, and I want to apply for an Australian passport for him, so he will have dual passports. ( I am Australian. )

We will be registering his birth at the government office in Chiang Mai next week. The hospital has already sent all our paperwork to this office.

Anyone had any experience with this before ? Would appreciate any advice, links to sites etc.

Information regarding this can be found on The Australian Embassy website.

Information regarding this can be found on The Australian Embassy website.

My experience - US Citizen - registration was done by the Hospital. A visit to the mbassy by all 3; husband, wife, son, with marriage and birth records was required and an Embassy birth record (Certificate) was issued. Once the certificate was in hand, a passport was applied for and received. Some time later, we went to the Thai Passport office with the Thai documents and applied for a Thai passport - received a week later.

hi there

will you be there to do this or will your wife do it?

you will not be there you need to provide a document giving her to permission to do it.

the document is from the thai consulate

OP, I'll be in a similar situation to you in the very near future. I'll be looking to get the baby both Thai & Australian Passports.

In regards to the Australian Passport, I believe the process is -

1) Apply for citizenship by descent for the baby (Form 118)

http://www.citizenship.gov.au/applying/how_to_apply/descent/

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/118.pdf

2) After your baby is an Australian citizen, you can then apply for an Australian passport

https://www.passports.gov.au/Web/Forms/Passport/Overseas/OverseasPassport_0.aspx

https://www.passports.gov.au/web/newppt/applyingu18.aspx

Thanks for all replies. I did look on the Australian Embassy site but could not find what I was looking for.

Thanks for those links secretariat, you saved me a lot of time.

@ secretariat, I have sent you a message.

OP, I'll be in a similar situation to you in the very near future. I'll be looking to get the baby both Thai & Australian Passports.

In regards to the Australian Passport, I believe the process is -

1) Apply for citizenship by descent for the baby (Form 118)

http://www.citizenship.gov.au/applying/how_to_apply/descent/

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/118.pdf

2) After your baby is an Australian citizen, you can then apply for an Australian passport

https://www.passports.gov.au/Web/Forms/Passport/Overseas/OverseasPassport_0.aspx

https://www.passports.gov.au/web/newppt/applyingu18.aspx

Great Post ...

Our recent experience with the citizenship.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/701948-kudos-oz-embassy/?p=7392521

Secretariat seems right.

I'm half way through the process. After doing the application online and a month of emailing and providing many more documents, certifications and modifications, they have said that citizenship was granted. Now we have to go to Bangkok and collect the certificate between 10:30am and 12:00pm (?!), then hopefully do some more document translations and get the passport done on the same day.

I had done the birth certificate translation myself for the citizenship, but the passport application says it needs an authorized translator's stamp.