I met some undocumented students again this afternoon. They looked happy and hopeful.
As the contents of Article 23 in Nationality act provide the chance to submit and preocess for Thai Natinality, some have proceeded to the application and one of the students was documented as Thai citizen recently.
I got many forwarded mails about the acts and other related information and shared it with the students during the past few weeks. My NGOs friends also worked very actively on the issue.
It is noticeable that the success of being documented mostly based on civil society movement. The NGOs networking, academicians and mass medias play very important roles on implementation of the acts. They keep monitoring and evaluation and send a legal opionion notice to the district offices that ignore the application. Then the Department of Local Administration commands the local officers to work more actively.
The chance to be documented is very meaningfu for the students. I am sure that they are going to play important roles for the development of their communities in the future. I hope they can access to the application process and be recognized as aThai.
