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My wife is Thai, but is a US citizen and travels on a US passport.

She has told me that she has heard that it is possible to be a dual US/Thai citizen. Is this possible or is it just part of the rumor mill ?
Does anyone know someone who has dual citizenship?

This obviously has significant implications when it comes to purchasing property.

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As far as I know Thailand does not recognize dual nationality. The way around this would be only to travel in and out of Thailand on her Thai passport and everywhere else on the US one.
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My wife is a British Citizen and also a Thai citizen.She holds passports for both counties but don,t know about US.
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Mr. HansMartin

Many Thai Stars and the Thai High Society had done this before.
Months before the birth of the expected Child Husband and Wife travel to the US and settle themself at a Wife or Husbands relative who happens to live there in the States for a long Time. When the Baby is born it will automaticly get an American Citizenship. If the parents are clever enough after birth they apply for an American Passport or some kind of US Idnetification. which is likely to be awarded. Three to six Months after the childs birth parents return with their chilld to Thailand which they apply again for a Thai Paasport or some kind of Identification that they are Thai!
Officially Thailand does not recognise dual citizenship but their has not been a control machanism for authorities to check or investigate if some one has another Citizenship other than Thai.
In Germany Foreigners who are born in Germany and parents are Foreign can apply and are allowed to have for dual citizenship until your 23rd Birthday unitl then they give you the time to decide which nationality you want to belong to. unitl your 23rd Birthday ithey will give you the cchance of an relaxed naturlisation process which is a bit easier to become a German citizen.
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When I checked this question with the Thai Embassy in London several months ago, they advised that it was possible to hold dual nationality in Thailand until your 21st birthday, at which time you have to decide which nationality you wish to retain.

My wife also holds a British and Thai passport, and travels on her British passport. When we move to Thailand, the advice given by Buksida is about the best there is.
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In Germany Foreigners who are born in Germany and parents are Foreign can apply and are allowed to have for dual citizenship until your 23rd Birthday unitl then they give you the time to decide which nationality you want to belong to.
I wouldn’t have thought it would take 23 years to decide you don’t want to be German!
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STEVE G wrote:
In Germany Foreigners who are born in Germany and parents are Foreign can apply and are allowed to have for dual citizenship until your 23rd Birthday unitl then they give you the time to decide which nationality you want to belong to.
I wouldn’t have thought it would take 23 years to decide you don’t want to be German!

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The understudy wrote:Mr. HansMartin

Officially Thailand does not recognise dual citizenship but their has not been a control machanism for authorities to check or investigate if some one has another Citizenship other than Thai.
Not true
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they knew when he travelled in with his Austrian passport that he was also thai.
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can some kind person adopt me think i would like to be thai??

bit like the old record i think im turning chineese!!!!!

i relay thikn so :mrgreen:
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I think that the main reason for confusion on the dual nationality issue is that whilst it is not recognized by Thai law, a lot of other countries do allow it, so there is nothing to stop a Thai national applying for nationality in another country and retaining their Thai nationality. What you can’t do is apply for Thai nationality as a foreigner and retain your original nationality.
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My wife now has both a British passport and a Thai passport.

The addition of the British passport has simplified travelling for us considerably, she now enters and leaves the UK on her British passport and arrives and leaves Thailand on her Thai passport.

We had encountered various problems in travelling between the UK and Thailand before she got her British passport, one of which was sorted out by two very helpful British Embassy officials who were at Don Muang airport at the time.
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bozzman101 wrote:can some kind person adopt me think i would like to be thai??

bit like the old record i think im turning chineese!!!!!

i relay thikn so :mrgreen:
Completely off topic, the record was "Turning Japanese", not Chinese! :mrgreen: :offtopic:
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I think the point in the OP is that the wife is a US Citizen of Thai decent. She now wishes to apply for a Thai Citizenship without surrendering her US Citizenship.

Most of the posters have commented on successfully completing the opposite i.e. A Thai Citizen has applied successfully for Citizenship in a different Country (and retained her Thai Citizenship)

Not sure if I reclarifed the OP or just confused it further!

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Mny of us are in the same situation as Jimbo.
I have never heard of anyone having problems at either end using the two passport technique.
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What constitutes proof of Thai citizenship?

My wife has a US passport, and a new picture Thai ID card. She got that 2 years ago after being out of Thailand since she was 13 which was more than a few years ago. It wasn't that easy to get. She couldn't get it in BKK, but did in the village where she came from.

We are not concerned about travelling in and out of Thailand, but are interested in Thai citizenship as it applies to property purchases. Is a Thai ID adequate for this purpose?
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