NL Embassy: You can apply for a certificate of life or have it stamped without an appointment
November 28 2022
Photo: Facebook NL embassy
Dutch benefits agencies such as the ABP and the Social Insurance Bank can ask for a certificate of life (attestation de vita). From now on you can visit the Dutch embassy in Bangkok without an appointment.
Opening hours: Monday to Thursday from 08:30 to 11:00 and from 13:30 to 15:00. Friday from 08:30 to 12:00. The embassy is closed on public holidays and anniversaries.
Read more at: https://www.nederlandwereldwijd.nl/verklaring/in-leven-zijn/thailand
Please note: for all other consular services you can only contact the embassy after you have made an appointment online. For more information see: https://www.nederlandwereldwijd.nl/afspraak-maken/thailand
Source: Facebook NL embassy
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Great decision! Does this also apply to Thai people living in Thailand with a Dutch AOW benefit or pension from the Netherlands?
I read this story two weeks ago on the website Netherlands worldwide.
I have already experienced it now.
Take into account waiting time, in my case 40 minutes. Other than that it ran smoothly.
That website also states what you need to have with you in terms of evidence, in addition to your passport, of course.
In Pattaya, this is still possible at the Austrian Consulate, free of charge and without an appointment, which is still accepted by the SVB and ABP and others.
Seems unlikely to me that the signature of Austrian Consulate is accepted nowadays as there is now an SSO in Pattaya. On the Sukhomvit, a long way past Bangkok hospital Pattaya. Published on this blog over a year ago. And it's true, I was there two months ago.
Dear Maryse,
The fact that the SSO is now also in Pattaya has nothing to do with this. Even when the SSO used to be in Laem Chabang, you could only go to the SSO for a statement for the SVB. The SSO does not and did not issue a stamp for a statement for your pension fund.
Then and now you can still go to the Austrian Consulate for a statement for your pension fund.
My experience is different though. I read on the site 2 weeks ago that you can come by without an appointment for this document, but then you will still be rejected by security, they refer you to a QR code on the window of their booth, which you should have scanned and had you received other information. So tasty in Thai. An embassy with hardworking employees who don't update its website and a security that doesn't allow your obv and QR code. Do you then have to argue that you have to travel 6 hours for this document, that it is not my fault that the embassy is too bad to put this on their site and that you can eventually enter anyway. The arrogance alone. Service is -0