Your baby’s Thai birth certificate is only half the paperwork. Making your child a documented US citizen takes an online CRBA application, an embassy interview, and about US$235 for the certificate and a first passport.
If you or your wife just delivered your baby in Thailand, the hospital staff may have helped you with your baby’s Thai birth certificate and accompanying paperwork, but you’ll have to take a few extra steps to get your son or daughter recognized as a US citizen.
To do that, you have to apply for a Consular Report of Birth Abroad certificate, US passport, and US social security number and card.
The social security number comes last, so in this article I’ll focus on applying for your child’s US passport and Consular Report of Birth Abroad certificate.
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