kurtmartens

Hi all. Not sure were to post this question - moderators can move it it need be. My kids are dual citizens - US / Thailand. Right now I am on assignment outside of Thailand (for the next 4 months). My wife and I noticed that their Thai passports are expired - they are home in Thailand, I am in the US. For her to renew them in Thailand, I have to sign a consent form either at the Thai Consulate in NYC or via mail with the Thai Embassy in DC - of course the Embassy doesn't make this easy as they want my passport not just notarized but actually apostilled by the State Department in DC. Getting State to do this will take weeks and then mailing it to me back to the Embassy, getting them to mail be the stamped consent form and sending that back to Thailand ... I'll be home by then! Question, even though their Thai passports are expired, their US passports are fine. Can they leave Thailand with an expired Thai passport and valid US passport since they will be traveling to the US on their US passports. Or will Thai immigration at the airport kick up a fuss? Which I imagine is the case.

Nope. Arrived 2 (?) weeks ago in Boston. Had that book and the A4 page from McCormick. They looked at the A4 page in Bangkok when I was checking in for the international flight with JAL and when I was in Japan I signed the CDC declaration and that was that. Customs / Immigration at Logan stamped me home and didn't ask for anything else.

Pfizer has always been acceptable to the UK. I think the issue was Thailand being a red list country - which I think Thailand just came off of?

Are they doing the 2nd shots at the Promenade? I had my 2nd at McCormick, because they were doing the 1st jabs at the mall.

Not looking to argue, just curious where you are getting this information? Considering the info in the WHO vaccine booklet is the same as the Thai certificate (including the hospital stamp since the hospital is who fills it out) from the hospital here and frankly the certificate is much easier to fake. Of course I have the original certificate from the hospital as well.

time to move ....

Why would a hospital want to use masks with valves in them? That negates the whole purpose. (We have already had this debate that masks with valves are not intended for health care and are primarily for industrial use.) It also negates the liquid repellent coating that most hospitals want.

Totally agree. And while I am not a UN fan (having worked for them), I think the WHO vaccine book is the closest we have to universal.

What is the inside of the book like? It is similar to the WHO book? Or is it just for the covid vaccines?

It is a UN document, so any country that is a member of the UN technically needs to accept it. It is in English and French because as I said earlier it was developed originally for use with yellow fever vaccines in Africa and French is the predominant language in those countries other than English.

WOW! That just looks old and well travelled! LOL

What?? Pfizer has always been an accepted vaccine for the UK. The issue is that Thailand is still listed as a red country even though they now have the Pfizer vaccine, so the UK still requires 10 days of quarantine. Which I personally think is silly, but I'm not from the UK so ... https://www.gov.uk/guidance/red-list-of-countries-and-territories The purpose of the WHO vaccine passport is that is should be internationally recognized as valid as it is issued by the WHO (UN).

The WHO vaccine passport has been around for years. It is yellow (which is sometimes it is referred as a yellow vaccine passport) and sometimes has the country emblem that you live in or got it in on the front and sometimes just the WHO information. It must be in French and English. And was originally created (I believe) as proof of yellow fever vaccinations for traveling to Africa. https://www.who.int/ihr/IVC200_06_26.pdf I had one originally for yellow fever, but lost it with all the traveling I've done. I simply bought a new one online and when it got here had the hospital stamp my Covid vaccines in it. They were happy to do so, and I wasn't the only Farang with one. I don't know why the Thai CDC told my wife you can only put yellow fever vaccines in it, it has pages in it clearly marked for any other vaccines. Miscommunication or misunderstanding, I don't know.

Great! I have been looking for a podiatrist for years here. ???? (I just looked him up, he is affiliated with Bangkok Hospital in Chiangmai. And did a Foot/Ankle specialty at Univ of Iowa. So his English should be good as well.)

Interesting. When my wife called they told her I would need to show proof of traveling and it would take a week, etc. Rather than be "that Farang", I ended up just ordering a yellow vaccine passport from the WHO and having McCormick stamp the inside with my 2 Pfizer shots. (My wife also asked the guys at the Thai CDC is they would accept the WHO yellow vaccine passport and they told her you can only put yellow fever vaccine information in it, which is of course not the case. But, I've learned not to have these arguments.) I assume you managed in getting the Thai vaccine passport? Which is the same as the WHO vaccine passport?