TerraplaneGuy

That is terrible! How can there be such a long wait? Used to be so easy to just walk in .... and why doesn't the online queue work, any idea?

I mean can you use Line for appointments specifically for the retirement extension. (For some reason I’m not able to edit my earlier comment.)

Did they say you can make the appointment using Line rather than showing up in person to make it? Because people have said recently you have to go in person for that (therefore 3 visits total: One to book appointment, one to submit documents including bank stuff, and one to pick up your passport with your new extension stamp). If you can use Line for the first step, it’s only two visits needed, like last year.

The bank letter is good for 7 days. The statement can be from the day before but you have to update your bank book the day of application with a fresh transaction that day. . You can make a transaction by phone in the morning or go to an ATM and withdraw something. Then use the update machine if they have one that works. Or wait for the bank to open and have staff update.

Did she know you had been outside the province because she checked her system and it showed a TM30 registered outside? Is that why she rejected your old one?

I will!

Is the Samui Form TM7 the same now as it was last year? I have an extra from then that would save me having to pick up one now if there’s been no changes.

I see, well I still I wonder why the old one still worked given the more recent BKK filings

So I guess when you went to Samui Imm they didn’t check your old TM30 that you brought in the system to see if it was still current. Or maybe they did but realized that your BKK stats were temporary so didn’t matter. Any idea how this works?

Interesting. Do you mean that after returning from BKK you used the TM30 you filed before you went to BKK? Did you stay in a hotel there and do you know if they filed one? If so I wonder why it didn’t eclipse your old filing.

I don’t know how long this particular feature has been online but it appears to work. I booked a date and time and I quickly got back an email from Surat Thani Immigration Samui Office confirming the appointment. Whether it will be honored when I arrive remains to be seen but it does look functional.

No but I’m going to try. Why wouldn’t it work? They offer the online appointments specifically for “retirement purpose” among other purposes. Not to actually apply online or upload anything, just to book an appointment.

So interesting. The online booking system appears to be working fine. Are they not aware of it? Or do they just ignore it? What if you arrive, not having come earlier to book, but having an online appointment confirmed by Surat Thani Immigration?

It’s really hard to understand how this is supposed to work. “About a month” doesn’t seem accurate enough to be a real rule. Is 40 days ok? 20? And what if you’re traveling off island in the preceding month? It seems far-fetched even for these jokers to insist that people come TWICE in person for an extension, first to create an appointment, then for their application. I’m wondering if it’s more a “suggestion” than a rule? Can it be that they would refuse to extend a stay even if you go two weeks ahead of your expiry, with all the right paper, just because you hadn’t made this new extra visit, weeks before?