Thai Citizenship For Child Of 2 Legal Aliens?

[ozymandious]

My wife and I are legal aliens in Thailand. (Non Im-B/Work permit and Non Im-O respectively)

I have lived in Thailand for about 4 years now. My Daughter was born 1 year ago @ Bangkok-Phuket Hospital. She has about every conceivable birth certificate and registered certified translation possible in both Thai and English. (Had to get all the done doing the BKK shuffle to get her a US Passport)

Her Original document was a Thai Birth Certificate.

When my child was born some of the hospital staff told me I could apply for Thai citizenship/passport for my daughter because she was born in Thailand.

They also added that I needed to have 3 consecutive 1 year visas to apply. ( I was a couple of months short at the time from the end of my third year)

My Question: Is it possible for my child, born in Thailand with Thai Birth certificate to become a Thai Citizen? What are the Requirements for both her and me?

[GuestHouse]

Both parents non Thai - Then your child takes citizenship from you, no Thai citizenship will be given on account of having been born in Thailand.

[Axel]

My wife and I are legal aliens in Thailand. (Non Im-B/Work permit and Non Im-O respectively)

Non-im-visa specifies it already, non-immigrant, i.e. not legal aliens.

If both (foreign) parents are legal aliens than the child can be Thai.

[Thai-Aust]

Check out these 2 websites regarding acquiring Thai nationality from the Dept of Foreign Affairs. They are in Thai though so you will have to drag someone who is a Thai lawyer to explain this to you. To me it's very confusing. But from what I understand, your child may be eligible for Thai citizenship.

http://www.mfa.go.th/web/206.php (Pay particular attention on clause 7 - 2.)

http://www.mfa.go.th/web/198.php

[ozymandious]

My wife and I are legal aliens in Thailand. (Non Im-B/Work permit and Non Im-O respectively)

Non-im-visa specifies it already, non-immigrant, i.e. not legal aliens.

If both (foreign) parents are legal aliens than the child can be Thai.

Sorry, I guess I meant to stress the fact that we are residing here legally with visas and permits and were not just on holiday here.

[ozymandious]

Check out these 2 websites regarding acquiring Thai nationality from the Dept of Foreign Affairs. They are in Thai though so you will have to drag someone who is a Thai lawyer to explain this to you. To me it's very confusing. But from what I understand, your child may be eligible for Thai citizenship.

http://www.mfa.go.th/web/206.php (Pay particular attention on clause 7 - 2.)

http://www.mfa.go.th/web/198.php

OK, What I gather (or what my friend tells me) I need to have 3 consecutive 1 year visas, Apply for a residency permit and receive it (difficult with a Government quota of only 100 pax a year ) and then I can apply for my daughter’s Thai citizenship.

Not sure if both parents are required to have residency.

I’ll investigate more and report my findings.

[samran]

http://www.thaiembdc.org/index.htm

look under consular services and then consular information and there will be a table there.

The long and the short of it is, unless one of the parents is a PR at birth, then the child can not get Thai nationality at birth in Thailand. In fact, the Thai BC should say at the top right hand corner the nationaity of child.

For info on getting PR, see Camerata's guide to PR posted at the top of the visa's forum, which demystifies the whole process.