The Process Of Getting Dual Citizenship For Your Child - Part 2

In my previous post, I shared about how to get the Thai Birth Certificate for you child. You can refer to the post here.

Today I will share about how to get the Thai Birth Certificate converted to an English version in order to use it for applying Singapore Citizenship.

After getting the Thai Birth Cert, you have to make your way to The Govenment Complex Commemorating His Majesty The King Chaengwattana located at Chaeng Wattana Road. The location map can be found here.

Once here, look for the magazine store located on Level 1, next to 7-Eleven. Here, they can provide services to translate your Thai version of Birth Cert to an English version. If I don't remember wrongly, it should be less than 200 Bt. You can of course do it at other places but I like the convenience to be able to do everything needed at 1 place.

It will usually take them about 2 hours to complete the translation. So I would recommend that you be there in the morning about 9am so that you can complete the translation before noon.

After getting the translation, proceed to Level 2. This is where they will do a Certify True Copy of your translated English Birth Cert. You would need to make a copy of the Thai Birth Cert and submit together with the translated copy for them to certify the document. Get a form from the booth, fill it up (Can do it in English) and get a queue number.

The cost of certifying the documents should be about 800 Bt and you will have to come back to collect the next day. But if you are in a hurry or don't want to make a 2nd trip, you can pay double the amount and have the Birth Cert certified on the same day. But I think you will have to submit the request before noon in order to get it on the same day.

Once your number is called, proceed to the counter and submit the form and the documents together with the payment and take a seat.

You might be called into the interview room where the officer will ask you questions about yourself and why you need to make a translation of the birth cert.

You can just reply him your reasons and he will usually ask you to wait outside. Nothing much about this.

Wait for your number to be called again and collect the receipt from the counter. Depending on whether you choose the normal or express mode, collect your certified true copy Birth Cert at the appropriate time.

From here, you are already half way in bringing your child back to Singapore and getting his/her citizenship. In the next post, I will continue to share on how to apply for the Thai passport and Singapore Citizenship.