Thai passport

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Thai passport
The front cover of a contemporary Thai biometric passport.
Date first issued	August 2005 (biometric booklet)
Issued by	Thailand
Type of document	Passport
Purpose	Identification
Eligibility requirements	Thai citizenship
Expiration	5 years

The Thai passport is the passport issued to citizens and nationals of Thailand by the Passport Division of the Department of Consular Affairs within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Thai biometric passports have been issued since August 2005.

Physical appearance

The ordinary Thai passport cover is dark red with the Emblem of Thailand emblazoned in the centre. The official passport has a blue cover, the diplomatic passport a red cover and the temporary passport a green cover. All types have the word "หนังสือเดินทาง ประเทศไทย" (English translation: หนังสือเดินทาง nangseu derntaang - Passport; ประเทศไทย prathet thai - Thailand) above the national emblem and the words THAILAND - PASSPORT below it. The biometric symbol is at the bottom of e-passports. The passport contains 50 pages.

Types of Thai passport

Certificate of Identity (C.I.) - Issued for a Thai citizen who has had a passport stolen, lost or damaged for emergency return to Thailand. (C.I. valid for 10 Days and expires when the holder enters to Thailand.)
Travel Document for Alien (Yellow cover) - Issued for Non-Thai citizens who hold a certificate of Permanent Residence in Thailand for traveling abroad. The holder of this travel document must apply for a Re-entry permit before leaving Thailand. A Travel Document for alien will not be issued to and person who holds a valid passport from their former nationality.
Temporary passport (Dark Green cover) - Issued while waiting to get a new passport while abroad and when needed to travel to other countries. (Valid for 1 year and must to returned when the new passport is received.)
Hajj Passport - Issued for Thai Muslims for a hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. (Valid for 2 years.)
Ordinary passport (Maroon cover) - Issued for ordinary travel, such as vacations and business trips.
Official passport (Dark Blue cover) - Issued to individuals representing the Thai government or a government officer on official business.
Diplomatic passport (Red cover) - Issued to members of the Thai royal family, top ranking government officials, and diplomatic couriers.

Cost of Thai passport

Ordinary passport is 1,000 Thai Baht.
Official passport is 1,000 Thai Baht which can be claimed back upon submission of the receipt.
Diplomatic passport is free of charge.
Hajj passport is 400 Thai Baht.
Travel Document for Alien is 500 Thai Baht.
Temporary passport is 296 Thai Baht.

Identity information page

The data page of the latest version of the Thai biometric passport

Thai passport includes the following data:

Photograph of the holder (digital image printed on page)
Type/รหัส ('P' for ordinary / 'O' for official / 'D' for diplomatic)
Country code/ประเทศ ('THA' for Thailand)
Passport number/หนังสือเดินทางเลขที่
Surname/นามสกุล
Title Name/คำนำหน้าชื่อ ชื่อ (MR./MS./MRS. holder's name)
Name in Thai/ชื่อภาษาไทย (name in ethnic script - title, name and Surname in Thai)
Nationality/สัญชาติ ('THAI')
Personal No./เลขประจำตัวประชาชน (same as Thai National Identification Card)
Place of birth/สถานที่เกิด (only the city or town is listed)
Date of birth/วันเกิด (in DD-MMM-YYYY format, such as 14-DEC-1989)
Sex/เพศ ('M' or 'F')
Date of issue/วันที่ออก (in DD-MMM-YYYY)
Date of expiry/วันที่หมดอายุ (in DD-MMM-YYYY, five years from date of issue)
Authority/ออกให้โดย (MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS / ROYAL THAI EMBASSY / ROYAL THAI CONSULATE GENERAL)
Height/ส่วนสูง (in metres)
Signature of bearer/ลายมือชื่อผู้ถือหนังสือเดินทาง (hand-written signature or finger print)
Machine Readable Zone starting with P<THA

Note

The request note inside a Thai passport states:

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand hereby requests all whom it may concern to permit the citizen/national of Kingdom of Thailand named herein to pass freely without delay or hindrance and to give all lawful aid and protection. This passport is valid for all countries and area.

This is stated in English only. All other information is printed in Thai and in English.

Thai Passport Holders Living as Permanent Residents Abroad

For some countries, Thai nationals may enter as tourists without an advance visa provided they can produce official documentation of lawful permanent residence abroad. In particular, Thai permanent residents of the United States or Canada can show their green card or Canadian Immigration Identification record together with their Thai passport in order to gain entry to many countries in Central America and the Caribbean. Notable examples are Mexico and Jamaica. (Note that in many cases US or Canadian permanent residence will allow a traveler to gain entry as a tourist regardless of their nationality).

Sources

Passports

Africa

Central

Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo, Republic of the Equatorial Guinea Gabon

ECCAS	Angola Congo, Democratic Republic of the São Tomé and Príncipe

Eastern

Northern

Southern

Western

Ghana Mauritania Saint Helena¹

ECOWAS	Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Côte d'Ivoire Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo

Americas

Caribbean

Anguilla¹ British Virgin Islands¹ Cayman Islands¹ Cuba Dominican Republic Montserrat¹ Turks and Caicos Islands¹

CARICOM	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Dominica Grenada Haiti Jamaica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago

Central

Costa Rica Panama

CARICOM	Belize

Central America-4	El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua

Northern

South

Chile Falkland Islands¹ Paraguay

Andean	Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Peru

CARICOM	Guyana Suriname

Mercosur	Argentina Brazil Uruguay Venezuela

Asia

Central & North	Afghanistan Kazakhstan³ Kyrgyzstan Russia³ Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

East	China Hong Kong SAR Japan Korea, North Korea, South Macao SAR Mongolia Taiwan

South	Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka

Southeast	Brunei Burma Cambodia East Timor Indonesia Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam

West	Armenia⁴ Azerbaijan³ Bahrain Cyprus⁴ Egypt³ Georgia³ Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Nagorno-Karabakh⁴ ⁵ Northern Cyprus⁴ ⁵ Oman Palestinian Authority Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria Turkey³ United Arab Emirates Yemen

Europe

Non-European Union

Abkhazia⁵ Albania Andorra Armenia⁴ Azerbaijan³ Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Georgia³ Iceland² Kazakhstan³ Kosovo⁵ Liechtenstein² Macedonia Malta, Sovereign Military Order of Moldova Monaco² Montenegro Nagorno-Karabakh⁴ ⁵ Northern Cyprus⁴ ⁵ Norway² Russia³ San Marino² Serbia South Ossetia⁵ Switzerland² Transnistria⁵ Turkey³ Ukraine Vatican City²

British non-EU	British National (Overseas) British Overseas citizen British protected person

European Union

Oceania

Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia, Federated States of Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Pitcairn Islands¹ Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

International organizations
Defunct passports
Passport types

International organizations	European Union laissez-passer International Committee of the Red Cross Interpol United Nations laissez-passer

Defunct	British Indian Empire¹ Czechoslovakia East Germany Korean Empire League of Nations refugee Mandatory Palestine Rhodesia Soviet Union³ UNMIK Travel Document Yugoslavia

Types	Biometric Camouflage Diplomatic Fake Hajj Horse Internal International Machine-readable Pet Travel document alien refugee stateless person World

¹ British Overseas Territories. ² Open border with Schengen Area. ³ Transcontinental country. ⁴ Entirely in Southwest Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe. ⁵ Partially recognized.

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