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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Validity of Thai passport to 10 years?
Reader question: Validity of Thai passport to 10 years?
Dear readers,
A while ago I read somewhere that the Thai passport, which was always valid for 5 years, is now also valid for 10 years. On telephone inquiry at the Thai consulate in Munich, the lady could not tell me anything about the possibility of this new 10-year valid passport.
Have any of you experienced or heard anything new about this particular passport?
I am very grateful for any answers, as long as it is not a suspicion.
Regards,
John
john,
Thailand, Viet Nam,…. have had a passport with a validity of 10 years for a very long time, this is nothing new.
The time from here with us, valid for 5 years, has also been changed to 7 years as several years.
Hugo,
Dear Hugo, I am not concerned about Vietnam, but only about the new Thai passport, which I fear your response is completely incorrect.
After my telephone contact with the Thai general consulate in Munich, I also received an answer to my e-mail from the Thai consulate in Berlin yesterday.
At both consulates they have now assured me that there is talk that this new passport is in the planning, but that both consulates have not yet received any further information, when this will actually become reality.
Unfortunately, for the time being, a Thai passport is only valid for 5 years, and has never been 7 years as you write.
If you have a different opinion in view of these clear facts, I would like to know the source of your information.
With Vr.gr. John
I would like to thank the editors of Thailandblog nl. for the quick posting of my above question.
Because I had already received a response to my question from the Thai consulate in Munich and later in Berlin, I was very interested whether more readers had read about this new passport, or perhaps when applying at an immigration office in Thailand, together with their Thai partner had already made an experience.
Unfortunately, I only received the above incorrect information from Hugo, in which he apparently fancifully had to claim that a Thai passport has had a validity of 10 years for several years, and that this had also changed from 5 years to 7 years.
Unfortunately, to this day he has failed to tell me the source of this statement, so that I do not understand the sense of such an incorrect response to a question.
As of September (this year), the Nation says,
see the link
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30392596
In April 2018 there was already an article in the Bangkok Post in which the report of 10 years was written and then it was written that it would be February 2019. Can give the link but doesn't add much I think because it's old information but google it: validity passport Thailand
Is this story in The Nation correct, that the passport will be available from September, and I have also read the article in the Bangkok post that the passport was in planning.
Hence my question to the two Thai consulates, who still know nothing, and my subsequent question to the readers of Thailand blog.
Ger-Korat in any case, thank you very much for your answer.
Dear John,
In January 2020, we extended my partner's Thai passport at the embassy in The Hague. That has been extended by five years until January 2025.
Dear Peter, by renewing the passport, do you mean that she could keep her previous passport, and it was only extended for 5 years??
As far as I know, a Thai must apply for a completely new passport after the expiry of the 5-year validity of a passport.
The fact that this new passport is only valid for 5 years, and that when you receive your new passport, you automatically get your old, then invalid passport back, has always been the case until now.
It was in my question above, if anyone already knew something more about the new 10-year passport, which has already been transferred since 2018, that it would already become a reality in September this year.
That a Thai passport with a validity of 10 years, given the Thai media, would finally come on the market, many Thai woook would greet my Thai partner very much.
I would therefore like to hear from you, whether you have renewed your partner's passport, or whether, as I suspect, you have applied for a completely new passport?
I would like to thank you in advance for any answer to this question.
Gr.John