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When my child was born I got her a Thai passport (mother is Thai) followed by a UK passport a couple of months later.

5 years on, these are about to expire.

I was told that I needed to get a Thai passport before the UK one as she could not get a Thai passport if she already had one from another country. Do I need to avoid mentioning that she now has a UK passport when I apply for a new Thai passport?

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There should be no problem. I know many Thais who have two passports which, as far as I believe is illegal. But if it good enough for Thaksin!

Seriously, children are allowed to have two nationalities until the age of 21 at which time they are supposed to choose which nationality to keep. So getting both passports is no problem. But I have never known this law be enforced. TIT.

Chris

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My understanding is the same as lor. You can keep 2 passports until a certain age (I heard 15, but it may be 21). At this point the Thais say your daughter must renounce her British nationality in order to keep her Thai one. So she/you tell the Thais this is what you have done. Except the Brits have no such divisive rule so you get to keep you Brit passport anyway. Just another little quirk here in LoS!

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