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Those were the days when the embassy in Bangkok had passport blanks in stock and printed the necessary personal details on their premises. Safety concerns and the addition of electronic features put an end to that.

I suspect that the British Passport Office did not quote you 11 weeks, but up to 11 weeks.

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@techhasse Because you are on a retirement extension, your father can change his retirement extension to a dependent extension under clause 2.20 of Police Order 327/2557, wich does not require any proof of finances. Source: Police Order 327_2557 (2014) - extension criteria & conditions en - Siam Translation.pdf

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Unfortunately, the OP does not seem to know nor describe precisely what he has in his passport but he has made some valiant efforts designed to help us guess what i might be (see below) and I hope that your advice and that of other posters help him to decide how to proceed. ...I have a 90 day checkin, then 1 year university... ...it appears to be some kind of 90 days + 1 year visa... ...update...It is not a "90 day check in" so apologies for that bad wording...It is some sort of 90 day period before I must go to Chiang Mai immigration to get a 12 month university ED visa...it seems no one knows what this 90 day period is about. Some ED visas seem to have them though. Maybe it is a "preliminary test period" or something like that.

Thank you for this clarification. Lesson learnt: "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw" I had the illusion that you wrote something which — in this topic — you did not write.

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This is not about something of crucial importance, but the more I see it the more it annoys me. Every time a numbered or bulleted list is created in a post by clicking on the corresponding symbol at the top of the text entry field, the font size gets much smaller and the font colour a much lighter shade of grey, not only when I post, but also in the posts of other members. This is not new; I believe it started with a software upgrade or change a year or two ago. AseanNow one two three alpha bravo charlie I know little to nothing about program coding, but when I look at this post in Source mode I see nothing to indicate a change in character format.

@Hal65 Do you know where your old passport is right now and in what state it is, ie physically invalidated (holes punched in it or a corner cut off) or not? Can you find out by calling the embassy?

There you have it, @Hal65, you should have flown to Bangkok to submit your application for your new passport personally and request to be allowed to hold on to your old passport until the new one arrives. In some civilised countries, apparently including the USA, using this approach will do the trick. Of course, you could also have included this request with the passport application you mailed to the US embassy, but since "they found it" only two weeks after you mailed it, it might have taken at least another two weeks until you got the old passport back, by which time your current permission to stay might already have expired.

In some civilised countries but apparently not in the USA, when you apply for a new passport at a passport office or embassy, you are allowed to hold on to the old passport and it is not invalidated until the new one arrives, which means that you can continue to use the old passport and, where nessary abroad, get extensions of stay stamped in it.

@Hal65 On 18 April you posted, apparently from Pattaya, in the topic Can I fly on a new passport without moving my old visa? On 30 April you posted, (from Pattaya or Chiang Mai?) in the topic Central Festival immigration questions On 18 July you posted, from Chiang Mai, in the present topic Passport stuck at embassy as checkin nears You have given no dates but some approximations, in chronological order as follows: On or before 27 June, you got what you refer to as "a 90 day checkin" stamped into your passport, presumably at the Chiang Mai immigration office. On or before 27 June, you sent (mailed) your passport to the US embassy in Bangkok, presumably from Chiang Mai, apparently with an application for a new passport. on 27 July, your current permission to stay will expire.

The only way to know for sure "what this 90 day period is about" is for you to post a photo of it here or, alternatively, type the full text of it. Can you do that?

With "1 year university ED visa", do mean to say that you have a one-year extension of stay in the passport you sent to the embassy?

@Hal65 Is the US embassy holding on to your old passport all the time until your new passport arrives?

The first thing you need to do is organise a place where you will live with your wife. Next, you get a non-O visa and a one-year extension from the local immigration office for the reason of living with your wife at that address. Next, you drop by the local district office and inquire about their procedure for getting the yellow household registration book for your address. Not all district offices handle it the same way. Take your wife along to help with translation.

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I got that wrong. It is the non-immigrant visa issued to existing PR holders permitting them to re-enter Thailand that confused me.

There is no quota for Permanent Residence (PR). PR holders are non-quota immigrants.

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I would write to the embassy and ask them to correct their error.