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Wonder how they handle passengers with multiple passports

Egates are in the center departure area. Much much faster and nicer experience. And you dont get a stamp. The arrivals egate planned for non-citizens has been postponed to "sometime in the future"..was supposed to start in December 2024.. The news snippet is most likely for arrivals.

I dont unserstand the need to stamp resident permits on passports, just issue a nonCitizen ID card to all long term residents like most of the "first" world. Singapore a decade ago got rid of it and now the visa/rep transfers are a click away from the comfort of your home! There has to be a better way than this amount of unproductive use of time.

So I managed to exhaust the pages of my passport and did the LTR visa transfer to the new passport the other day. Emailed LTR Visa Unit to get the requirements and they send me as below- fairly painless except no special window for LTR holders so had the mandatory 3 hours queuing the window 14/15. Also the new stamps have already taken up 3 pages of the new passport! Please note that no appointment is required to transfer your LTR Visa to a new passport. You may visit us during working hours, any time before 3:30 PM. To complete the visa transfer process, kindly follow these steps: 1. Please visit the Immigration One Stop Service Center for Visa and Work Permit (OSS). You don't need to appear in person; instead, you can authorize a representative or someone you know to bring your passports for the visa transfer. There is no additional fee for this service. 2. Bring the following documents: - Original former and new passports - Transfer stamp to new passport form, download here: https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Transfer-Stamp-to-New-Passport-Form.pdf - Certificate of visa transfer from your embassy (Your passport will require this document, when getting a new passport, please make sure to request for passport transfer certificate as well) - Copies of former and new passports with your photo - Copy of the last arrival stamp in your passport - Copy of the LTR Visa stamp in your passport - Copy of the last extended visa in your passport - Copy of T.M. 6 Card (if applicable) - Notification letter of qualification endorsement addressed to the Immigration Bureau (found within your LTR Visa account under the check status tab) - 1-Year notification card (if applicable) Please ensure that you transfer the visa before your current passport expires. If not, the LTR visa will become invalid and unusable.

"In a similar story, a Laotian man in Chon Buri province returned a gold necklace to a Thai woman, explaining that he had taken it home, mistakenly thinking it was a gift from the gold shop. The Laotian man insisted that he had visited the shop on the same day as the Thai woman to buy a gold necklace and a Buddhist amulet. Her gold necklace was in a package, so he did not realise it was not his and took it home." This is truly a jewel. 555

Suspect it will be a digital TM6 and probably have a "small" fee each time you apply🙂

I have had family done similar, check out of the rooms at 12 and leave bags in my room till latish. I suspect all of the party was supposed to checkout on the same day. Its not the 10m Baht deal gone sour for sure!

The check out for a globalist is at 4pm which is probably what one member was.even as a globalist am 10 minutes after 4PM i get a call..in this case more than 24 hours!? Hotel surely knows more than what is being letting on.

10 million baht seems a ridiculous amount to carry out such an act..can sense the authorities are rushing to shut the case solved.

Seems a rather quick conclusion? Did they interact with the spirits or are there hidden cameras in the room!

Arriving into swampy there is no mad rush that used to be prevalent all thru the year. Things have cooled off for Asean in general with the ridiculous yen and krw.

I suspect it will be done by end of the year for all passports.

There seems to be rush everywhere to get rid of manned immigration...suppose big data is super happy!

As if its not crazy enough in Pattaya..now we have Darwin award aspirants too.

Has this been resolved yet or they simply shuttered the APC and added more personnel? I really don't need anymore stamps especially when am not a tourist here!

Quite normal for Chinese gangs operating on this route, learned hard way- Bkk-colombo on Sri Lankan morning flight. Always always keep your valuables on person!

Poor worksmanship needs such lengthy and nonsensical explanation. Suspect the line could be out of action for a very long time.

All the hotels chains seem to indulge in price fixing..having to pay 5k for what used to a be 2.5k aloft or courtyard and then when you reach the hotel the manager claims its a bit slow this year...

Agreed, what i meant was overstaying and illegally working in Thailand/Malaysia isnt as attractive to Indians as before.

All of them, indian economy/salaries are way better now and working illegally /overstaying is unlikely to happen in Thailand & Malaysia. Infact i know a lot of workers from India in Malaysia who have gone back for better prospects in India during the last few years. The visa exemption isnt done without a reason.

For some of us annual reporting is approaching- my first time doing it- is it online/ similar to the 90day reporting?

Used the LTR to re-enter Thailand first time since issued and the immigration officer said he had never seen this before and chatted with his colleague on what he shud actually stamp on the passport....

Doubt if the PRC are keen to travel as has been hyped in the Thai and Malaysian media. The only PRC travellers I saw this week were going back after being stuck here for 3 years. The economic situation in China is dire along with the fear of death and disease, people are even avoiding subways actively forget about airports and planes.

There is a discussion upthread about it- if you do not have QR payment method, Cash is the Only other option. I paid the 50k in cash.

While I was at the BOI 3 tables were occupied with what appeared to be mainland Chinese talking about investing Millions ( or was it Billions) of baht, while the actual immigration side was full of Japanese waiting to be stamped (Not LTR), LTR window I was the only applicant the time I was there and the only one in the building without a mask...