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Reader question: We want to get married, how does my Thai girlfriend get a birth certificate?
Dear readers,
My Thai girlfriend has been living in Belgium for 5 years, we went to inquire at the town hall which documents we need to get married in Belgium.
Apparently only a birth certificate and that's just something she doesn't have, she only has a birth certificate. Where can she get it, only in her hometown or in Bangkok?
With kind regards,
Hugo
Had the same experience with my wife. She had to go to the Amphur in her hometown (Nakhon Sawan) and it also had no records. She was ordered to go to her former school there and - unbelievable - they had an accounting that she had gone through the school there. With this certificate to her former schoolmaster - was still alive - who signed the certificate of school attendance and was born there. Back to the Amphur and there she got an official letter of birth in Nakhon Sawan with the names of her parents, were registered in Nakhon Sawan or accounting school, don't remember exactly. This letter is recognized as a birth certificate. You will no longer receive an original birth certificate, it will only be issued once at birth. For use in the Netherlands I had to have it translated, then to Laksi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs for stamp and then to Embassy for another stamp and only then ready for use. Good luck.
Dear Hugo,
I know from experience that is also considered valid: the statement of two witnesses. If possible: the wives who helped bring your future into the world, and another person present at birth. As mentioned in the previous response: have this document legalized by the various authorities. However, you will need other documents to marry your future in Belgium. You will have to provide proof that she is not yet married as well as proof of property she owns. If you strictly follow everything you will not experience any significant problems, but try not to make side jumps because that can only lead to problems.
with regards, lung addie (also a Belgian)
We got married at the end of March and had the same problem, no birth certificate. My wife then went to Amphur with the village head (Isaan he) and an aunt who was present at the birth to declare that she was born on such and such a date at that place. It was no problem, the statement was made immediately, but according to me it is only possible in the Amphur of birth.
And as reported by Theo, have it translated and legalized in Bangkok.
Until 1995, I believe Thailand did not have a civil registry like in NL, people received a birth certificate to keep for themselves, most people lose it, and according to my wife, there is not a single body in Thailand that ever asks for it, people has the ID card. It is the foreign authorities that ask for it when marrying a Thai, I would say a valid passport or ID card should also suffice.
Here too: no more birth certificate. She was born in a hospital in a big city. Registered and raised in a small village. For the birth certificate, she then went to the municipality with her mother and some witnesses (teacher from her primary school, a police officer and -??-) to make a statement. The statement that she has been registered in her village since her birth was sufficient. for the Dutch authorities.
Although I always sometimes doubt what would be correct: should the certificate mention the place of actual birth or the place of birth registered and where the child has lived from, say, day 1?
After all, it cannot be deduced from the statement that she was actually born in a city hospital.
Fortunately, I have never had any questions about why Pappoort calls a different place (the province, as I understand it, which in our case has the same name as the provincial capital where she was born in the hospital) than the place in the alternative birth declaration.
However, nowhere in the Netherlands is the option to indicate “she was born in the hospital of provincial town A, in the province of the same name. This province of birth is stated in the passport as “place of birth”. She has been registered as a resident of village B since birth, this is evident from the statement we have provided which replaces the lost birth certificate.”