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Petition filed in push for equal citizenship
Bangkok Post
|March 25, 2025
A petition has been submitted to allow LGBTI individuals to obtain Thai citizenship in response to the Marriage Equality Law, according to the Secretariat of the House of Representatives.
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Chatchai Emraja, lawyer and adviser to the Parliamentary Committee to Scrutinise the Act for Amendment to the Civil and Commercial Code, recently filed a petition to revise the Nationality Act of 1965. Under Article 9, only a foreign woman who marries a Thai man can obtain Thai citizenship, which is built on an idea from the Cold War that foreign men could marry and engage in espionage.
"As everybody can now marry regardless of sex, discrimination should be eliminated in the context of granting citizenship.
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