What do I need to know about obtaining a Thai ID card as a foreigner?

That pink ID card is as much use as a Mop in a Desert.

Once you have the Yellow Book, the Pink ID card takes half an hour to get, although you will need to take a Thai speaker if you aren't fluent as they do query why you need it (possibly as there isn't any actual requirement for Westerners to have one and/or the relative rarity of it) and they ask you some questions (such as religion) which they input into the Thai national database.

This topic in the Thai Visa Forum has the thai rule under which foreigners CAN get the i/d card.

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@Tod ********

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You first have to get a yellow house book. In order to do that you go to your Amphur and get the hand out they have. There is NO rule that you have had to live here a year OR be married. In fact if your landlord allows you to (and gives you the documentation) you can apply for it even as a renter.

Here's the hand out from the Khlong Toey Amphur in Bangkok as far as what's required to get a yellow house book. I know it's all in thai, :/

Google yellow house book thailand and you can find articles on it too.

That's the first step, once you have that getting the 10 year i/d card for "normal foreigners" is not a problem.

Told this week at my local Municipality office that to qualify for a yellow book you have to be both; a) resident for at least 12 months, b) married. I believe both criteria to be wrong but the lady was adamant!

Look into apply one for my other half too.

you can get a pink id - also without a yellow book

Pink ID card....you need a yellow book to get one