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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.

Oh dear. I see that the Thai embassy in Belgium gave you a postdated visa issue date to match your intended flight date. This is highly irregular.

Your e-visa issued on 11 July is valid for travel to Thailand from 11 July until the date shown on the line "Visa must be used by", regardless of the flight date shown on the ticket you submitted with the visa application.

If you are doing this in Pattaya, the OP will probably be happy if you let him know the name and details of your agent. If you are not doing this in Pattaya, please say so.

If you get the visa stamp in your passport and subsequently your e-visa arrives before you travel to Thailand, use the stamped visa in your passport to enter the country. Don't show or mention the e-visa to the immigration official as this would be information overload and could confuse him. He may not have been trained to deal with such situation and his reaction would be unpredictable.

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Removed an off-topic post and the replies to it. Reminder: The title of this topic is Executor of expat will duties. Replies with information what others wrote in their will and how much they paid a lawyer to draft it, etc are far off topic.

In the situation you describe, all airlines have the right, but not the obligation, to deny a boarding pass.

Being the sons of a Thai national, they acquired Thai nationality by birth. What they need now is documentary evidence of their Thai nationality. If they were born in the USA, the mother should get the Thai birth certificate for them from the Thai embassy or consulate. Then the boys should travel with the the US passport with the suggested non-O visa to Thailand and subsequently 1. either get free one year extensions at the local immigration office fot the reason of being a Thai national, or 2. get entered in the grand-mother's house registration book, then get the Thai ID card at the district office, then get the the Thai passport at the passport office. It would probably be too late now to get the Thai passport in the USA for travel on 31 July, it the mother should choose that route for them.

Isan Lawyers and Siam Legal come to my mind and a web search shows me that both have a branch office in Pattaya. Does anyone know if they offer this service and for what fee?

From the opening post of this topic I understand that chilly07 is wheelchair-bound, so we should perhaps not be impatient. The sad fact seems to be that so-called visa agents in Pattaya do not want to assist with uncomplicated applications for a retirement extension with monthly income, and I have been wracking my brain to figure out how we might help him. It isn't just footwork that he will have to do himself, but wheelchair travel. Perpaps a law firm, using their standard hourly tariff plus travel expenses, would do it. I remember that Sunbelt used to do it in Bangkok and hopefully someone knows of a law firm in Pattaya offering this "hand-holding" service for an application where all requirements including the finances are met. Does anyone have an idea?

I'm going to add a question mark to the topic title. That should fix it.

That's how also I see it. @chilly07, can you confirm that it was not an immigration official who told you that the monthly income route is currently not available?