Family moving to Thailand....

[nss70]

Our family is looking at moving back to Thailand, with the wife and I intending to run something on the lines of a guest house. We obviously need to get our papers in order and would like to do the same for children in case they both decide to follow us out. We are all UK expats currently living in Spain, my wife and I are around 50 and the kids 20 and 16.

After reading through the on line Thai consulate information and the many threads here I'm thinking along the lines of the following.

My wife (Thai with dual citizenship) has just renewed her Thai ID card on our recent visit and will now renew her Thai passport at the consulate. When entering Thailand long term/permanently she should do so with her Thai passport?

My daughter (also dual citizen) has never held a Thai ID card but does have an expired Thai passport. She can renew said passport at the consulate and then apply for an ID card on entering Thailand. OR do the same as for my son below?

My son (falang! ) can apply for both Thai ID card and passport at the consulate because of Thai mother making him an automatic Thai citizen? (He will initially be going to the UK to finish his studies)

For myself (falang), I must initially apply for a non-immigrant visa from the consulate and then apply for for a work permit as spouse of a Thai citizen in Thailand. For this I must show 400K ThB or, as I have read here somewhere, only 40K ThB but could not find the mechanism for this.

Am I heading in the right direction or do I have my facts jumbled?

[wayned]

Yes

Wife should enter on her Thai passport.

Daughter should renew her Thai passport and enter on it.

Your son, will have to get a birth certificate from the Thai Embassy where he was born and apply for a passport there. I dont think that he can get a Thai Id card until her comes to Thailand as he must be registered in a "blue house book", tambian baan. I'm not sure of the procedure but someone will be along to clarify it. He should enter Thailand on his Thai passport.

You should apply for a single entry Non-O visa which will give you 90 days on entry and during the last 30 days of your permission to stay you apply for a 1 year extension since you are married to a Thai. The requirement is either 400k in a bank in your name only seasoned for 2 months OR 40k/month income.

The rule of thumb as far as dual nationality is you always use the passport of the country that you are entering. Thais can enter Thailand on expired passports!

[ubonjoe]

Most of your post appears correct or has been corrected by the previous post.

I do have questions about your son. Does he have a Thai birth certificate you obtained on his birth here or by registering his birth at a Thai embassy? If not that will have to be done prior to him getting a Thai passport. At most embassies this can be done in one trip to the embassy.

Another point to remember is that it can take as much as 2 months to get the passport when renewing a Thai passport through an embassy If this becomes a problem they could travel to and enter Thailand on a expired Thai passport or one with only a short period of time remaining.

Once you are here and have the non immigrant O visa or an extension of stay you can apply for a work permit after you have set up your company or business. You cannot apply for the work permit prior to that.

[nss70]

Many thanks for the replies, which, thankfully, confirm my research.

The Q regarding my son, he has only a UK birth certificate as he was born in the UK. I will, therefore, need to apply for a Thai BC and then passport for him.