Need Passport to Get SIM Card?

[ThailandTrip]

I have a flip phone and I am trying to get a sim card to I have a phone to use.

I went to a 7-11 and they told me I need my passport (which I do not have on me).

How can I get a SIM for my phone without my passport?

I don't remember needing one last time I was here.

[swampdonkey]

Go get your passport you should always carry it in case you get knock down by a bus.

Bar girls & motorcycle taxi drivers have been know to be dabbling in the registration of sim cards as a side line

[ThailandTrip]

So there is no way around this?

[swampdonkey]

So there is no way around this?

Sim cards must be registered.

If you do a seach on the forum you will find many topics about it

[thrilled]

If you want A phone,give them your passport.Things change.You should make some photo copies and always carry one on you

[cnx355]

If you want A phone,give them your passport.Things change.You should make some photo copies and always carry one on you

My niece was visiting last month, I went with her to a DTAC shop. She had a photocopy of her passport and the lady at the shop used her mobile phone to scan

the passport and register the sim card. Just normal procedure now.

[beechguy]

So there is no way around this?

No, deal with it.

[TheAppletons]

So there is no way around this?

Go get your passport you should always carry it in case you get knock down by a bus.

Bar girls & motorcycle taxi drivers have been know to be dabbling in the registration of sim cards as a side line

[Ulic]

I just used my Canadian drivers licence, so no, just official government ID.

[TechnikaIII]

Went down to my local top-up shop, .. they are friends, and said "While I'm here I should register the sim" They simply used a mobile phone to photograph the passport pages needed. All done.

[TheSpade]

I used a photocopy of my passport at TrueMove shop in bangkok to set up prepay WiFi through an AirCard / shared dongle.

When setting up a SIM i didn't have my pasdport or a copy so a friend registered it on her ID at 7/11.

You must surely have a Thai friend that can do it?

[rapom]

Got a new 4G sim from Dtac couple of months ago. They accepted my home state drivers license.

[bkkcanuck8]

A few months ago I used my expired (now renewed) passport but only brought a photocopy to the 7/11 which they accepted (a few quizical looks then processed it).

They tie all SIM card registrations to known people - so legal identification of who you are is needed for the registration to take place.

The stated goal of the registration is to prevent the use in terrorism / criminal activity, but that would not stop it anyway since the worst case scenario is to bring a foreign phone in and use it - so it was not registered (just more expensive)..... so one can only assume the goal of this is really to monitor ordinary Thais who may have different political viewpoints (or say the wrong thing about certain people).

[bkkcanuck8]

If your worry is that you are in an overstay status -- you really don't have to be that paranoid..... There are much easier ways to catch all the overstay, one that would get a high number would be just to check the last place you registered to stay on entry and work from there. People don't tend to stray too far from what they know - they could easily round up a couple thousand a day if that was a priority.

[KOZMO]

Go get your passport you should always carry it in case you get knock down by a bus.

Bar girls & motorcycle taxi drivers have been know to be dabbling in the registration of sim cards as a side line

So much for security when a Bar girl, Taxi driver or Joe Blow will register for you !!!!!

[pmarlin]

Go get your passport you should always carry it in case you get knock down by a bus.

Bar girls & motorcycle taxi drivers have been know to be dabbling in the registration of sim cards as a side line

So much for security when a Bar girl, Taxi driver or Joe Blow will register for you !!!!!

Plus being a partner of a crime.

[Maestro]

Removed a troll post about a "certificate of résidence" and the replies to it. This topic is about the requirement of a passport to get a SIM card, not about anything else and certainly not the place to post unfounded rumours.