What are the options for relocating to Thailand as a refugee and obtaining long-term residency or citizenship?

@Maii ****

not easy, people’s application pending from 2 years

@Sk *********

that's a good solution..

@KJ *******

read his posts. If you think he is qualified to teach English, then you should teach astrophysics in Mandarin Chinese.

@Frank *********

lots of cracks in the story as it progressed and reply comments by the OP, the numbers for me don’t add up, as the saying goes there is something rotten in Denmark… no offence at all to our Danish brethren.

@Lena ******

Lena , I can see your empathy , & under normal circumstances I would agree ! However this man has ""made his bed & now should lay in it,""! !!!! Think Abt it !? 1/ his name is not Iranian 2/ he is a refugee given a chance with more perks than you can think of for 8 years ,3/ he now denounces the country that hosted him 4/ he has not contributed apart his bs 5/ how has he traveled to Thailand before with our a passport? So many other negatives !!!

@Mally ******

Risible.

I think you have gotten yourself in a bad place. Try somewhere different..

@Peter *******

He already speaks: Farsi, German and as you see on his typing: English. Thai is the second most simplest language on the planet, after Japanese. You should give it a try. /facepalm

@Henrik ****

He can't. As he has no passport.

@Henrik ****

going to be hard to leave Germany if he is a refugee and has no passport from Germany and if he can’t live in Iran it is safe to say he no longer has a current Iranian passport… so there is NO 60 day visa on arrival in Thailand situation applying here.

@Von *****

Because a German Passport is nearly impossible to get?

- He is a refugee.

- That does not entitle him for a passport.

For a passport you need citizenship. He he does not get that either. To get citizenship, he needs to speak German, on a high level. Has to work, and except for "refugee status" he needs "permanent residency status" first. Being marries to a German might help, but not much.

Why do you not have a Thai citizenship? Oh? Same problem!

So, the only thing which could work, is: he gets a Persian passport from the Persian embassy in Germany. So at least he can travel. Which is unlikely, as the Persian government hates refugees that fled the country.

So, he could try to migrate to France. He could get - perhaps - a French citizenship over a course of 5 years. Which again requires to be close to fluent in French.

There is perhaps one or two countries in the world that gives you "freed citizenship", just because you are a refugee. And Germany is definitely not one of them. If we grant Asylum, then that is first of all only for the time you are in danger. You get an ID card, but no passport.

I do not know the exact rules, as they got changed just recently. But: you have to be about 10 years in Germany, and fulfill a sh***load of requirements to achieve it. And then it still takes several years until it is granted.

What you think why it is so hard to get citizenship in Thailand? Oh mistaken already. It is not hard. It is 1oo times more easy than getting one in Germany! (* I am German *)

I do not know a single Thai who has German citizenship. They all only have "permanent residency status" - hence: a Thai Passport and a German ID card.

@Von *****

harsh …. But true I’m afraid

@Transitvan *****

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