Will try and keep this brief.......
I am waiting for answers to this question from the Thai Embassy in London and the support page on the Thailand Pass website, but as I hold my breath I thought I would ask for opinion on here.
Flights are booked, Quarantine hotel booked and vaccinations done for adults, children all under 12. I believe that only NON Thai nationals need to provide the Covid cover and this is where the confusion lies for me, or where we could come unstuck ( I will organise normal travel insurance as my private healthcare has sufficient Covid cover).
1 of the children's Thai passports have run out ( they hold Thai and UK passports) and the embassy in the UK has been unable to renew "due to Covid", so they will have to travel on their UK passport with the plan to renew in Thailand.
It is not clear on the Thailand Pass website if they will be accepted as "Thai" for the application and for the travel ( for travel they will be UK nationals as that is the valid passport). Even when you do the application as a Thai national in English still offers the option to add insurance details but I thought that Thai nationals would not require Covid insurance?
The "reasoned" part of me would suggest that they can apply as Thai nationals ( using their expired passport as evidence) so from a Thailand Pass position they are a Thai national entering Thailand ( and do not require Covid insurance), but from the flight and entry into Thailand they will have to use their UK passport.
But........ having lived in Thailand for 20 years all reason goes out of the window, so I expect that this will not be seen in the same way..... "your passport has run out so you are not Thai until you get a new passport" is what I would expect the answer to be, and "you are entering Thailand on a non Thai passport so you are not Thai and need Covid insurance" is what I would be expecting to hear.
Of course it would be sensible to have the Covid insurance anyway in case anyone tests positive on entry but it would be good to get a better idea of how we stand in this area of "grey" which is so often the case in Thailand.
Maybe I have answered my own questions already and the safest option would be to apply for all children as UK nationals, travel on UK passports ( we are staying less than 30 days) and get insurance for everyone but to add a further shade of grey we did this once and were questioned at length as to why Thai nationals were entering Thailand on UK passports.....
If anyone has already faced a similar situation or has any further thoughts it would be appreciated.
Thanks