Holliday To Uk

[Isan Farang]

I am at present living in Thailand with my thai wife and boy. I plan to take a trip back to the UK. My boy is 8 years old, was born in Thailand,and has a thai and british passport. There are no stamps in either of the passports. I wish to know what the requirements are and which passport he would use, if i was to bring him with me. Expect to be in the uk around 1 month.

Regards

Isan Farang

[dr_Pat_Pong]

I am at present living in Thailand with my thai wife and boy. I plan to take a trip back to the UK. My boy is 8 years old, was born in Thailand,and has a thai and british passport. There are no stamps in either of the passports. I wish to know what the requirements are and which passport he would use, if i was to bring him with me. Expect to be in the uk around 1 month.

Regards

Isan Farang

No stamps in either passport means the child has never left Thailand. Take both passports, and depart BKK on the British passport so there is no need to get a visa. Show both passports on leaving the UK for the return trip.

[Isan Farang]

If he was to exit on a british passport, would this mean he would have to enter on his british passport and get a 30 day visa. Or if he was to show his thai passport to enter there would be no exit stamp. I am confused what happens when he returns.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

If he was to exit on a british passport, would this mean he would have to enter on his british passport and get a 30 day visa. Or if he was to show his thai passport to enter there would be no exit stamp. I am confused what happens when he returns.

He is 8 years of age. There won't be a problem. But if you are concerned, get a visa for the UK in his Thai passport.

[samran]

Don't want to muddy the water with what the Doc has recommended, which is fine, but I wouldn't personally do it for reasons stated below

I'd recommend leaving and re-entering LOS on the Thai PP and entering the leaving the UK on UK PP. You only need to show the airline check-in that he has a British PP so they will let him on the plane. No UK visas will be necessary. Show Thai immigration the Thai PP and get stamped out on that. Will work a treat.

Otherwise, on the way back into LOS, your son may have trouble re-entering Thailand when they cant find the exit stamp in the Thai passport. Thai immigration officers like all the stamps from Thailand to sit side by side in all Thai PP's and are pretty insistent on maintaining the Thai departure/re-entry stamp trail in Thai PP's. Any departure from this doesn't go down well with the average immigration officer at Thai borders (from experience).

Furthermore, on the way back into Thailand immigration will wonder how your son left Thailand in the first place and that inconsistency will probably show up on the immigration database. Immigration officials, the bureaucrats that they are, will get flustered it will just create delays when coming back into Thailand.