METV in passport issued in Thailand

[RaduAlex]

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has had their passport renewed in Thailand at their embassy, and then got an METV back home. Trouble is, I picked up my passport today, and it says "Thailand" as residence, because I'm no longer registered in my home country. Even though I have a Thai partner, I cannot apply for an Immigrant "0" because the life partnership law here has not been ratified (and I'm not 50) yet. Any advice?

[Crossy]

Don't worry, it's not the passport's place of issue that determines whether you can get a visa, you should have no problems whatever. When British embassies were actually issuing passports I had them from all over the world (I used to fill a passport in zero time), never a comment on the place of issue.

 

None of my passports have a "residence" field on the data page, what's your nationality?

 

[ubonjoe]

Your passport proves your nationality.

A Thai embassy or consulate do not care about where you are living if you have a passport for the country where they are located.

[RaduAlex]

Thanks for the replies, I've confirmed with the Thai embassy in my country (Germany) that they do issue METVs regardless of where the passport was issued / what residence is given there. Until 2017, residence for unregistered citizens was simply given as "no residence in Germany". Since then, once you apply for a new passport, you're automatically assigned residence in the country where you apply (I was told). Not sure if that's all EU passports but it would make sense. So I should be fine on reentry. But I will do the obligatory 90-day exit/reentry at a land border, not an airport.

[Tanoshi]

The METV only allows multiple entries of 60 days, but you can extend for another 30 days at Immigration.

Edited September 24, 2019 by Tanoshi