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Could you post a copy of the receipt you got? It's for my album of immigration-related stamps and documents.

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Is immigration's electronic data processing (EDP) really so bad that immigration officials cannot look up the registration of a foreigner's submission of the notification of staying in Thailand longer than 90 days?

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1. In principle, yes, but not all immigrations offices may agree to do it. 2. Where an immigration office agrees to do it, you need to coordinate it with the school where you plan to study, as this school will have to provide you with certain documents to submit with your application for the non-immigrant visa category ED (non-ED visa, for short) The Triple A Language School (AAA) has detailed information about the procedure on the web page https://www.aaathai.school/17541916/at-the-immigration-in-bangkok#:~:text=- Special tourist visa (STV),and apply for visa extension. I don't know when this information was written by this school and if the same procedure still applies today. Presumably, other qualifying schools have similar procedures.

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MENO? What is MENO? https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+MENO%3F&oq=what+is+MENO%3F&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i10i19i512j0i19i512l3j46i19i512j0i19i512l7j0i10i19i22i30j0i19i22i30.3187j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

I have a feeling that the person whose signature needs to be authenticated must be present, with his identification documents, and must sign the document in the presence of the consular official.

Information overload You have overloaded the consulate with information, ie you gave them information that they did not need and as a result they now ask you for additional documents which you may find difficult to provide. You informed the consulate that your wife has a passport with a name that is not the same as the name on her ID card. The consulate did not need to know that your wife has a passport. What document do you now plan to give them to prove that the person on the ID card is the same as the person on the passport?

It is not necessary for the Thai wife being visited to have a passport. The copy of her ID card serves as the necessary identification and proof of her Thai nationality in connection with her husband's application for a non-O visa.

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Thai postal code decoded. From https://en.youbianku.com/thailand From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Thailand The above confirms that the postal code does indeed use digits 1–2 to represent the province and digits 3–4 the district in that province.

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I've found it again! I don't know the original source of the above image, but eons ago it was in a post on ThaiVisa, I saved it on my computer and ten years ago I attached it to a post of mine. It confirms that digits 2–3 represent the province, digits 4–5 the district.

I know that digits 2–5 of the ID card number are the district (amphoe) and I wonder whether digits 2–3 represent the province (changwat) and digits 4–5 the district within that province. Postcodes were introduced in Thailand long after ID cards. Therefore, if there is a relationship between the two, the postcode system copied the ID system, not vice versa. In my case, digits 1–4 of the postcode are identical to digits 2–5 of the ID card. Is there a publicly available list of the province numbers as used in government databases?

That's right. I got that wrong. This makes me wonder now. When a foreigner with a pink card as temporary resident later becomes a permanent resident, does the entire ID numer change or only the first digit?

There is nothing in the pink ID card number to identify the card holders nationality. I am a Swiss national and the sequence 1189 is not in the ID number of my card.

For the pink card we are talkng about in this topic, the first digit of the ID number is always 6. Digits 2–6 identify the district office where the card was issued.

Format of the Thai ID card number: Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-format-of-Thai-national-identification-number_fig7_324219426

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I would not give the original documents to a translation agency for translation, only photocopies. Regarding the cost of translation, you can ask around at other agencies to get an idea of the going price for this service..

Neeranam is right. I now remember reading a post of a member, some years ago, perhaps in the topic Story Of My Thai Citizenship Application, saying that after he acquired Thai nationality his local immigration office willingly adjusted their records to show that he was no longer in Thailand as a Permanent Resident and also took care of getting his Alien Registration Book cancelled. Perhaps that post was even made by Neeranam. The OP, now back in Thailand after the wild goose chase to Laos on which his immigration office sent him, does indeed not have to do anything at all. Although he is now a Thai National, immigration still has him on their books as a Philippine national, but this irregularity is of their own doing because they refused to follow the correct procedure which obviously does exist but of which this particular official does not seem to be aware. Also his local police station continues to have him on record as an alien resident. The Alien Resident Book required him, when he was still a Permanent Resident, to report to the police every five years and get a stamp in the book and if they come looking for him when the next report would have been due he can show them his identity card or, if he wishes to do them a favour, he can can go to the station one of these days and return the book to them.

Good thinking. Make that step 4 in the procedure I outlined.

With a land border, it should have worked this way: 1. Leaving Thailand, give the Philippine passport to Thai immigration. 2. Entering Laos, give the Philippine passport to Laotian immigration. 3. Leaving Laos, give the Philippine passport to Laotian immigration. 4. Entering Thailand, give the Thai passport to Thai immigration. At this point, Thai immigration would have asked him for the passport with the Lotion exit stamp, he should then have explained his situation and insisted on his right under the Thai constitution to be allowed to enter Thailand unconditionally with his Thai passport. I remember reading about a case like this some years ago, an Australian woman with newly acquired Thai nationality, and it took her a long time arguing with Thai immigration until she was stamped in on her Thai passport. All things considered, the best advice still is to swap passports travelling by air using the procedure explained earlier in this topic to avoid all the hassle.

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