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My wife (Thai citizen) and I went to my home (UK) in 2022 for a holiday. I queued up in the non UK citizens line with her, We got to the front and the UK immigration dude was really cool, He said that next time we should queue in the UK citizens queue as I am a UK citizen and my wife would be allowed to use that queue as well as long as she was with me. We went to Thailand in November 22. We walked into the non Thai lane but there was a Thai immigration person there and my wife spoke to him and he opened the barrier and let us through the Thai citizen side. We are going to Thailand next month, Wife and son (Thai citizens) and me (UK citizen). Does anyone know that as a family, Are we allowed to use the Thai citizen lane please?

Hi All, Does anyone know if the Thai immigration line at Suvarnabhumi is manned or do they have computerized gates now? Thanks,

I have nearly completed the process - maybe this will help someone else in the future. The birth cert was acquired via post from the Thai Consulate in Washington DC. The consulate a bit slow but very helpful, They wanted quite a lot of information from us, The difficult info to get was certification of the hospital my son was born in and his birth weight. For the Thai passports, we had to apply online and then attend appointments in person. We stayed a couple of days in the Normandy hotel, Its a great location and not too bad value for Washington and a short walk to the consulate. My wife's Thai passport was expiring so we arranged appointments at 10:30 for wife and 11:00 for son. We only had to pay the $31 postage once and they will put both passports in the same envelope. No Tabien Baan was needed for my son but he will not be able to renew his passport until he has his name in a Tabien Baan. Thanks for everyone for the comments/help.

Thanks. I think number 1 is going to be an issue - asking a US (well actually any) hospital to provide something outside a very stringent set of services they provide is aways going to be challenging.

The Thai embassy website says that I need to apply for, "A Thai Birth certificate" - https://thaiembdc.org/thai-birth-certificate-english-thai/ I want a Thai passport for my son and according to the Thai government, I need a Thai birth certificate for him to get the passport. Their rules I guess.

Thanks @asiaexpat I've read all the instructions on the Thai consulate website, could you please help me out with a couple of questions? 1. My son has a North Carolina birth cert which does not mention his birth weight. Did you have this issue, Did you need to get his birth weight certified? 2. Did you add your children to a Tabien Baan or did you do it later? 3. Did you manage to apply for the passport at the same time as the birth cert please? Thanks,

Hello All, I am trying to wrap my head around the process to get a Thai birth certificate/passport for my son from the Thai embassy in Washington DC. Background is that I am British, My wife is a Thai National (born in Phitsanulok) and we live in (and my son was born in) North Carolina. Has anyone been through the process of obtaining a Thai birth cert for a child born outside Thailand? Thanks,

Hmm, I thought Armagh was in the U.K.

I've been walking around the house singing this for the last week, Missus has no clue what I am on about.

Hi All, I've pretty limited experience on Bangkok. I like the Kiwi bar on soi 8, The beer garden on soi 7, The bars at the front of queens park on soi 22 and The Game on Siukhumvit abd thats it really. I am married to a Phitsanulok girl and we are heading to Thailand (from our home in North Carolina) in mid November. We were planning to spend some time at mother in laws near Phitsanulok and then head to Hua Hin and either Phuket or Pattaya for Christmas and then back to Phitsanulok for New Year. There's always a great family bash for New Year that I really enjoy. Plans have changed a little as some of my relatives (Ireland) are going to Bangkok for the first time for a few days in early December. I am 49, missus is 39 and relatives are in their sixties. I have booked us into the Maitria on Sukhumvit 18, Stayed there before and love that hotel. My last time staying in bangkok was 2018 and doing some googling last night, It looks like The Kiwi bar is closed permanently and the queens park beer bar complex is gone. I imagine there has been a lot of changes in BKK. I am planning to take my relatives to Chatuchak market one day, Soi Cowboy one evening, maybe go somewhere on the boat on the canals but then I am out of ideas. Can anyone make some suggestions of places to go please? Can anyone recommend some places to eat on Sukhumvit, maybe pub grub and restaurants please? Thai and European are both good. Are there any good beer bar complexes left where we can play pool and just have some fun? Thanks,

Yep, they’re the ones that come with it.

Hello, My (Thai) wife's Mini Cooper SE gets delivered here in North Carolina on Wednesday. She got the Chilli red one with white roof and white mirror caps. I'd like to replace or get the mirror caps painted with the Thai flag. Does anyone know where I could buy some of these when we are over in Thailand or know of anyone who could paint the white ones please? Thanks,

Hello everyone, I am a dual UK/Irish citizen living in North Carolina, USA married to a fantastic girl from Phitsanulok. My wife is a Thai citizen and we are both Green card holders. My wife is 39 and was diagnosed with a Sarcoma in her leg 2 weeks ago and a CT scan on Monday is showing a Ground Glass nodule in her right upper lung. About 50% of people who have CT lung scans tend to show GGNs, They are not a diagnosis of cancer but are an area which warrants further investigation. We think that the Sarcoma has been fully removed but are waiting the results from an MRI on her knee. I am an engineer at a large tech company and we have a rather fantastic health insurance package. My wife is getting the best care available at the Levine cancer institute in Charlotte as well as everything is being peer reviewed at another Sarcoma center of excellence down in Texas. My mother in law is about 67 and was widowed last year. She has a nice little house outside Phitsanulok but no real material assets and has never been outside Thailand. I want my wife to be cared for and hopefully cured here in the USA but I want to be in a position to bring her mother here for maybe 6 months if need be. I want this so my wife can continue to be cared for here and spend some time with her mother if things get really bad. I am pretty sure that the doctors would be happy to provide evidence of my wife's illness. We are in a pretty good position financially and can easily evidence that we are in a position to support mother in law. I am a bit clued in on USA visas but very much from an employment perspective (I came to the USA on an L1B and my wife on an L2 before we both did AOS onto our EB Green cards inside the USA). Can anyone help me out with a few questions please? 1. How likely am I going to be able to get mother in law a visa to come to the USA? 2. Am I looking at a B1/B2 or is there another group of visas for this type of situation? 3. Does anyone know a good visa agent of lawyer in Thailand who may be able to help? 4. Do we need to show flight bookings when applying for a USA visa? Thanks,

Return to the LHR there were no checks whatsoever.

Cleared immigration in Dublin with no issue. A few question and wanted to see green card and that was it.

We’ve just boarded the flight at Heathrow bound for Dublin. No one even looked at the missus’ passport or visa

Belfast is a great call actually. We could try for the 0630 flight to Dublin and if they won’t board us, we could take the 0730 to Belfast and take the bus from there.

@PmbkkThanks for the reply. We're flying to Dublin and driving to Kilkenny for my uncle's 80th Birthday party. So all, Republic of Ireland, Eire, the 26 counties, Free state, Whatever people want to call it. We're heading to the UK on May 17th so don't have time to try for an Irish visa. I guess we'll give the UK one a go and see what happens. Not the end of the world either way, If we can't get to Ireland, We will go and visit some friends in Nottingham and spend a few days in the Lake district. We live in a small town called Denver, NC which is on the shores of Lake Norman about 25 miles north of Charlotte. We love it here and we have some fantastic bars and breweries. I'm 48 and have not been id'd in many, many years. Missus is 38 and looks young but as we are usually together, she doesn't get id'd either (much to her dismay).

@ThaIrish Sean Thanks for the advice and sharing your experience. We're travelling on BA on staff travel so although we would like to make it to Ireland, we are very flexible. Reading the below I think we will be OK but I think I will take the website info with me in case I hit a "computer says no" scenario in Heathrow. The BA website pointed us here -> https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/IE-Ireland-(Rep.)-passport-visa-health-travel-document-requirements.htm and the summary is - Summary Conditional, You will need to hold travel documents as detailed below. Type: Critical Visa Visa required. Visa Exemptions: Nationals of Thailand with a short stay visa issued by the United Kingdom if they have first entered the United Kingdom and been granted a stay of 180 days in the United Kingdom. They are visa exempt for a maximum stay of 90 days in Ireland (Rep.) or until the end of the period of stay granted in the United Kingdom, whichever is shorter. Passengers arriving in the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland, and traveling to Ireland (Rep.), the visa waiver programme will apply and only a visa issued by the United Kingdom will be required. The visit to Ireland (Rep.) must be within the stay granted within the United Kingdom. Passengers are permitted to travel to a third country before traveling to Ireland (Rep.) if the visa issued by United Kingdom is still valid. Furthermore, re-entry into Ireland (Rep.) from a third country is permitted if the visa issued by the United Kingdom is still valid and period of the stay granted in the United Kingdom is still valid. Passengers with a long term visa must visit Ireland (Rep.) within a period of the current stay granted in the United Kingdom. Passengers arriving first in Ireland (Rep.) and traveling to the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland, and then returning to Ireland (Rep.) will require separate visas issued by Ireland (Rep.) and the United Kingdom. However the visa issued by the United Kingdom will be accepted under the visa waiver programme for the return journey to Ireland (Rep.). Not applicable to short stay visas issued for the purpose of transit, marriage or to enter into a civil partnership.

Hi All, I have UK/Ireland dual citizenship and live in North Carolina with my Thai wife. We both have LPR (Green cards in the USA) and wife has a valid from May 8th UK short term visitor visa in her passport. We are going to the UK mid may to visit my family and wife want to see London, It will be her first visit to Europe. There is also a family function in Ireland midway through our trip and we have flights booked LHR-DUB-LHR. We plan to use her UK visitor visa to enter Ireland under the short stay visa waiver program. Our itinerary is ATL-LHR-DUB-LHR-ATL and She can answer yes to these 3 questions - Do you have an eligible UK short stay visa? and Does your visit to Ireland end before your permission to stay in UK ends (this is granted by an UK immigration official when you pass through UK immigration)? and Was your passport issued by one of the countries listed in the list below? I really do not need any hiccups or hassles with this trip. Has anyone got any experience of using this process? Have I missed anything? Do wife need to complete the Irish preclearance process please? Thanks,