dell commented : In March this year I had to replace my damaged British Passport just before renewing my annual non "O" status. I didn't have to send the damaged one back to the UK and when my new passport arrived i went for my annual visit to immigration. With my old and new passport They updated the necessary information into my new passport and completed my "O" status at the same time with no problems at all. Looks like your Embassy made an error. Normally passports are not the property of the Embassy as you purchased it and it should have been returned. Hope it ends well for you

godders commented : You no longer get your old UK passport back with the new one.

IsanEmmet commented : As a Brit with just the UK basic old age pension it is difficult to stay because of the pension income level they insist on, double that I receive from my country. Getting any visa at all on this income is expensive due more to travel and hotel costs than the actual visa price (from rural Buriram). As my own home Government seems to think that 20,000 baht a month is adequate then why does the Thai government want double that, or is it just easy feeding on us farangs, as usual.

johncat1 commented : This is the reason I wanted my Thai/English daughter born in the UK Now she is back living in Thailand and has dual nationality quite easily. I have just renewed her UK Passport to maintain her British status. But she has lived on Thai documents here for the past 8 years. I believe at the age of 18 they have to choose just one nationality, they cannot have dual Nationality. Thai law not UK law

bew commented : (As a final humiliation the 'sucessful' foreigner has to renounce his original citizenship at the time he receives Thai citizenship) =This is a process in many countries that all naturalised citizens need to renounce their original nationalities. I do agree with all of you here that getting Thai nationality are much more difficult than getting citizenship of the US, the UK, European countries, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and other developped countries. If I want to become naturalised in abovementioned countries, the process is much shorter. As long as every Thai government gives priority to population control, I won't see any chance for Thailand to streamline and facilitate the naturalisation process.

Anonymous commented : Hi guys, I was born in the UK 24 years ago to a thai mother and english father. What are my chances of obtaining a Thai passport from the embassy here in London? Any advice would be very helpful.

Captain Flasheart commented : Bump, I thought 'd post how I got mine. Born in 0xford UK, 1990. Mother is Thai. Just went to the Thai embassy in London with my mother and father, with all my documents, birth certificate etc, and all my mum's documents, like her ID passport etc. A bit of paper work, a small fee, 1 photo later, and I had 2 passports. Dual Thai Brit, easy as. Now I'm 18 technically I have to choose a citizenship. I declared myself as Thai, and said I gave up my British passport. Reall, I still have my British passport. Britain doesn't mind you having two passports. In fact getting my ID card when I was 15 turned out to be harder, going to Khon Kaen 3 times in one week from Bangkok.