How can I get my marriage certificate translated and legalized for a Khor 22 in Thailand?

Has anyone replying lost a passport?

I’ve lost mine, currently waiting for a new one. Need to leave and come back soon.

Would a picture of my old passport be sufficient ?

For the sake of clarity, DTV holders do not have a visa stamped or stuck into their passports.

The visa is the document sent with the DTV approval email from the Thai Embassy, which has to be printed out and presented with the passport to the IO upon each entry.

The IO will stamp into the passport an entry stamp allowing 180 day stay in Thailand. This is not a visa.

There is no need to get this entry stamp ‘transferred’ to a new passport. Upon exit from Thailand, simply hand in both old and new passports to the IO and they will stamp out in the new passport. Upon entry back into Thailand simply hand in both old and new passports, and the 180 day stamp with be stamped into the new passport. Job done.

It’s very important to check when getting the 180 stamp that the IO has actually stamped in with 180 days, not visa exempt stamp.

It’s much easier to get the same IO to correct the stamp if it’s wrong, than to sort it out later on.

When I renewed my passport they transferred my visa over to the new one in Thailand at immigration

That is utter nonsense

Not true lol. I think that some workers dont know what they are talking about. Im on a dtv visa and flew in with a new emergency passport to don mueang. They scanned my finger prints and used facial recognition..... literally in less then 5 minutes they stamped me in with no questions I didnt have to show my other passport I didnt even tell them im on a dtv visa because once they scanned my finger prints it already identified my visa. The DTV is linked to your finger print and facial recognition digitally in their database. As long as your passport is valid ..... the passport number doesnt matter cause thats not how they track u. Book your ticket dont re-apply that worker doesnt know what they're talking about.

I have been travelling with my renewed passport and showing my DTV in my old passport. Don't have any issues at all.

What will be the consequences for the embassy issuing incorrect information? 😂 (just kidding)

Just enter with it and bring the old passport.. You'll be fine

maybe the immigration office in Thailand will transfer your DTV to your new passport

Seems like if you ask a 'stupid' question in bureaucratic settings, you get a stupid answer; it's an established trope. They probably laughed to themselves as they were typing out that response to you.

So I do have my DTV Evisa letter and it has my old passport number on it. I have a copy of my Old passport page but not the old passport itself, had to turn it in, and I have my new passport and number, so I should be fine correct? Thank you everyone for the awesome comments.

Thank you everyone with your comments, After speaking with ommigration agencies in bangkok and seeing your comments, it does appear The Thai Embassy in Los Angelas gave me bad information. Of course I had to turn in my old USA passport to renew and get a new one. Of course the issue date and expiration date changed and the passport number changed. I do have a copy of my old passport which I can bring when I land .

so what happens then if i lost my dtv visa passport?

You carry your old passport woth your new one and visa

NO! I got a new passport last year because it expired this Sept, and I wasn't coming back to the US anytime soon, they just told me to travel with both passports and I have come in and out of Thailand with my new and old passport at least 5xs now. So NO you do Not have to pay for a new DTV, that is not true, also this was a question that came up a few months ago and others have done the same, travel with them both, when you arrive in Thailand they are aware if this issue at immigration.🤷🏾‍♀️

The visa is not in the passport, it’s in the system. No transfer is needed.

All these comments about 'you'll be fine, everyone does it, trust me I know' are missing the point, I think.

It's the OP's local embassy in Los Angeles giving him these instructions. He must take them seriously.

How far do you think he will get if he goes there and says, 'look at all my Facebook buddies telling me I don't have to do what you tell me. Now give me my same DTV visa in the new passport.'?

Rejected.

Unless he maybe appeals before the application and gets a higher up to approve it?

Either way, good luck.

No you don't. Just travel with both old and new passports, show them both along with a printout of your DTV

That’s wrong info. Just bring your new passport with your old passport and dtv and you can enter fine.

I’ve done it twice already after i got a new passport

All you have to do is carry both passports! IO at the airport completely understood when I gave them both.

I renewed my us passport just need to carry old and new passport entering thailand with dtv visa

Basically what everyone else is saying. We renewed our daughters passport and she has a DTV. We just carry her old passport and new and have never had issues at immigration.

I changed passports with a student visa, took the new and old to immigration and they transferred all the stamps.

I came in with both passports. No questions asked. Thai people like to bounce here and there. If they're not sure, they never want to admit that they don't know so just throw random answers at you

If you keep your old passport with you then immigration will transfer the visa over to the new passport.

You should have searched the group first… loads of ppl do it with old passport…

Carry both passports, no problem

The people that work at these offices are clueless

We are dealing with 2 departments here. One is the embassy which operates under MFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) who approved the visa and the other is the Immigration Department who enforces the visa. So if your visa is already approved, it should be up to the Immigration department to enforce it with the new and old passport.

I’m sure this is totally incorrect. The visa is not in your old passport, only the 180 stamp. So you enter Thailand and hand in both old and new passports to the immigration officer so that they can see the last 180 stamp in your old passport. They will them stamp your 180 day stamp into your new passport, job done.

I suggest that you had very bad advice from whoever you spoke to in the Thai Consulate on Los Angeles.

If you still have your old passport, you will be fine. You are also linked by biometrics in the Thai immigration system, so they will know that the old passport belonged to you, and your visa.

Getting a new passport from time to time is normal procedure, and does not affect any valid visa you my have

I renewed my passport this year and had no problem when entered through BKK. Just showed IO my DTV visa printed and he didn’t asked anything.

I believe the guy who gave you this information is totally misinformed. Of course I had brought my old passport with me just in case…

Your old passport is not valid anymore as a travel document, but the visa in or connected to it as still valid together with it, so as long as you also bring your old passport you do not need a new visa.

When old passport number is mentioned in new passport you might be able to enter with visa and new passport only.

Passport issuing authority or Immigration can put such a reference in your new passport.

No. Thats not how that works. You just have to bring both passports with you. Thats why if you are unsure of something, you should reach out to this group. Being intelligent isnt knowing all the answers. Its knowing how to find them.

The consulate seemingly has no clue how Immigration works. Your DTV remains valid, it is a .pdf document, which you should print out and keep in a laminated form. Before entering Thailand, you input the DTV visa number into the TDAC online form, and you just travel with both passports and the laminated pdf. You show both passports and the visa pdf, and the entry stamp will go correctly into your new passport. You can get your personal data updated in the Immigration Computer system, they will be able to link your new passport number to the visa.

Maybe the LA consulate are confused. But you just fly in with your current and old passport. Immigration will let you in. Maybe after a little confusion and calling in a supervisor.

Then you go to the local immigration office and they can transfer the visa and all stamps to the new passport.

Only issue is. Local immigration office might want a letter from your embassy that this new passport is yours is the continuation of the old one. Paperwork

There is a difference between the embassy and immigration. Immigration will accept your old passport along with your new one

you have been told total BS by the consulate. The visa itself is a .pdf document which you should print and always keep with you, to show on entry. The visa cannot get transferred at all, unless you were among the very first applicants and received a sticker into your old passport. In this case you just travel with both passports, your visa remains valid, and the entry stamp goes into the new passport

The embassy informed you incorrectly. You need to carry both passports with you, the visa can still be used until it expires.

How about carrying your old passport with you?

I have to do this for my 5 year India Visa.

The Consulate and Immigration are two different entities. Just bring your old and new passport and the IO will solve your problem. Don't worry.

Just take both passports, and then it’s fine. Many many many people do it

You just come with 2 passports and ask io put stamp in the new passport. Easy.

You need to bring your olf passport with you. Make your international driving licence as well.

Please keep us updated! Thank you.

I agree that this makes no sense. BTW, do not take this the wrong way, but Gemini is pretty good at Thai immigration law.

This is similar to my b1b2 in the US. My b1b2 is in my old passport and when I travel for work just carry both passports.

I’d think it’s similar here as you still hold a valid visa.

I have travelled Thailand before with the visa on old passport. And having a new passport issued. You just have to keep the old passport along with the new one. I don’t know about the new passport of USA but in our country when new passport is issued old passport number is mentioned in the new one.

What the person at the Los Angeles office told you is 🗑. The laziness of people who work in government is universal.

your first mistake was contacting the Embassy about a visa they already sold you

You don't need to do any of what you were told

You exit the country with BOTH passports, they will stamp you out on the new one and make a note in it you entered on the old one. Then when you come back in (the first time on the new passport) you present BOTH passports and the PDF print out to the officer at passport control. They will stamp you in on the new one and from then on you only need it and the PDF to get in and out of the country (but I'd make a copy of the data page of the old passport <- the one the DTV was issued on)

Many MANY people have gotten new passports and continue to use their existing DTV that they got on the old passport number.

You have your wires more than crossed

Just bring your old passport with you when you enter Thailand. Show your DTV, new and old passport and ask immigration to update the info in their system. No problem.

You don't have to "reapply" for the DTV. Many people have renewed or replaced their passports and still kept their DTV. Just bring BOTH passports when entering Thailand. The IO will confirm your ID you using biometrics and know it's still you, despite the new passport. And they stamp the NEW passport.

incorrect.

Most people travel with both passports

My passport expires before the visa finished and it's even noted in the visa

Why would you get a DTV , then immediately decide to get a new passport? Doesn’t really make sense Chief either that or ur organizational skills are rubbish