Thai Police Clearance for Adelaide

Yes. NAATI accreditation is national, not state-based. Translations certified by a NAATI practitioner working from Thailand are accepted across South Australia exactly as if produced in Adelaide. Every stamp carries a practitioner number verifiable on the NAATI Practitioner Directory.

Online lodgement via ImmiAccount accepts the NAATI Digital Stamp PDF (QR-verifiable). If you lodge in person at 40 Currie St, Adelaide, or the receiving body insists on a wet stamp, we ship originals to Adelaide by DHL/FedEx Express in about 4 business days.

No. The whole process runs over email and LINE: send document photos for review, confirm the passport spelling of names, receive the certified translation. If a fresh Thai civil-registry original is needed, our representative can obtain it on your behalf.

Typically 4 business days by DHL/FedEx Express from Bangkok, with tracking. Allow extra time around Thai and Australian public holidays.

We reply between 09:00 and 22:00 Bangkok time, which covers morning to evening in ACDT/ACST. Reach us any time on LINE @NAATI or ilc@thainotary.co.th, or call 080-5578887 during business hours.

South Australia is home to a sizeable Thai community (ABS 2021 Census). The most requested documents are birth certificates, house registrations, marriage and divorce records, name-change certificates, police clearance certificates and academic transcripts — mainly for partner visas, student visas and citizenship applications.

Always the spelling in your current Thai passport. If you have changed your name or older documents use a different romanisation, send the name-change certificate too so officers in Adelaide can link the whole document chain to one person.

The NAATI translation itself does not expire, but receiving bodies often require certain originals — police clearance or a single-status certificate, for example — to be issued within 3–6 months of lodgement. Always check the current requirement of the receiving authority.