Electronic Passport Application Documents
The Royal Thai Consulate-General, Los Angeles may issue a passport for Thai citizens who reside in the following thirteen (13) states:
1. Alaska 2.Arizona 3.California 4.Colorado 5.Hawaii 6.Idaho 7.Montana
8. Nevada 9.New Mexico 10.Oregon 11.Utah 12.Washington 13.Wyoming
as well as all of the unincorporated territories of the United States in the Pacific such as Guam and Saipan.
Issuance of passports for individuals who have reached the age of majority. (20 years old of age).
Please prepare the following documents
- Valid Thai national ID card.
- Current Thai passport.
- In case the passport is lost, a police report should be filed.
- Stamps with a total value of $31.55 (at current prices) for the Priority Express Mail.
- Payable by a money order/cashier’s check to the Royal Thai Consulate-General, Los Angeles.
- Passport valid for 5 years, the fee is 37.00 USD
- Passport valid for 10 years, the fee is 55.00 USD
Process
- Prepare the above documents.
- Fill in an E-Passport application form [click here]
- Upload the relevant documents online.
- The Royal Thai Consulate-General will check information online.
- The Royal Thai Consulate-General will send a confirmation email once the documents are complete.
- After receiving a confirmation email saying “Application approval", please prepare the documents in the picture above.
- The applicants must come and proceed by themselves since the biometric data, including fingerprints, photographs, and iris prints, of the applicants, will be recorded.
- Please arrive for the appointment at the time and date assigned.
- Please arrive at the Royal Thai Consulate-General 15 minutes before the scheduled time.
- Please refrain from wearing colored contact lenses on the day of the appointment.
- The Royal Thai Consulate-General will prepare
8.1 A returned envelope.
8.2 Envelopes are available at the Royal Thai Consulate-General.
- Please clearly write your returned address and attach prepared stamps.
- The Royal Thai Consulate-General, Los Angeles, is not responsible for any mail lost in transit
- The biometric data collection and fee payment will be conducted by the staff.
- The processing time for returning the passport by mail is 4 – 6 weeks.
- Name-surname in the new passport will be according to the civil registration database in Thailand.
Whenever the passport name needs to be changed after marriage or divorce, information in the civil registration must be updated first.
- When applying for a passport in a foreign country for the first time, where the applicant's name is on the civil registration database, but he/she has not yet been registered in the household registration, the applicant can only apply for a general passport with a five-year validity. The applicant, at the age of majority, has completed the civil registration process in person at the Department of Provincial Administration or authorized another person to act on their behalf may apply for a 10-year general passport.
For more information
Please contact LINE ID @thaiconsulate.la
SS/KS 6/14/23