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1 minute ago, DannyCarlton said:

No, I have a family here and have lived here for several years. I'm here on a retirement visa, not a tourist visa.

Still this is not your country. You are not a citizen. So I advise you to return to your country which has advised you to return according to your own words. Go back home until all this situation is cleared up. Everybody have their own personal circumstances and yours are not more important for me than mine. Vice versa is also true.

7 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

Return to your own country and re plan your migration for when this is all over.

Have you returned to your country already?

8 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

I think it's more likely those applying for extensions playing games.

 

Extensions are for tourist visas. Why would you want to come for a holiday in Thailand at this time? If you are a tourist you should be returning to your home country asap.

 

Still possible to obtain flights to all major countries.

Travelling at these times is dangerous. My country embassy has advised me to stay where I am. 

2 minutes ago, audaciousnomad said:

And in the meantime waive all fees, yes? ????

Total visa amnesty for a period of emergency. You want people to stay home or not? Yesterday at immigration office I felt like there is no Covid19 at all. Business as usual. That’s an idiocy.

Sincerely hope they will shut down all those disease spreading immigration offices starting 26.03. All immigration workers should be assured that they will be allowed to continue playing their visa games right after the Covid epidemic is taken under full control.

2 minutes ago, ColtenSloan said:

Not all of them hehe 

I went for a 30 day extension this morning, arrived at immigration at about 10:30am I was out before 11:00am 

 

About 15 people for various things in the immigration office. 

Where was that office? I witnessed not less than 300 people at the immigration in Jomtien yesterday. 

7 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said:

Were you  given an explanation for refusal?

They ask for the embassy letter which my embassy refuses to to supply me with. 

3 minutes ago, Ventenio said:

So then, what happens once you're refused an extension?

 

what are your options?

I got 7 day extension for 1900 baht. Now my options:

1. to leave the country if possible

2. hope for the change of policy by immigration and reapply for another extension in 7 days. Or be granted an automatic extension with everybody else (the best but unlikely scenario).

3. an overstay for not more than 90 days. Quite risky in the current unpredictable situation.

Just now, HashBrownHarry said:

In every single immigration office in thailand, you've checked?

Read the thread in Visa section. Almost without exclusions. Me myself was refused an extension yesterday after spending an hour in the crowd of hundreds of farangs. I pray God I was not infected. 

Anutin was right. Those never showering Italians made a deadly monster of our cute asian baby-virus.

In times like these the goal of the government should have been to make life of people (let's assume that farangs are still the human beings in the eyes of the Thais) easier. Visa amnesty for one month and for everybody would prevent thousands of people moving around the country and gathering in big groups at the immigration offices. Thus preventing the spread of the virus.

 Now look what we have in practice. Not only they (the immigration) provoked the panic amongst farangs about their status and made them come to the immigration in droves. They also made the process even harder and more complicated. Now all those poor farangs have to make another trip to their embassies in Bangkok to get the ORIGINAL letters. And somebody interprets this madness as a step towards farangs in this situation? Really? Are you kidding me?

5 minutes ago, vermin on arrival said:

What I meant by this was will the punitive measures such as potential trip to IDC and travel ban if arrested be voided as the tourism minister proposed. I have no desire to overstay, but will not just jump on a plane to anywhere right now for a variety of reasons. I don't think this measure was only for people stuck in an airport although individual IOs can interpret things how they want. Certainly I am not using this to hang about in a bar and have every intent and reasonable cause to apply for an emergency extension.

The bars are closed for some time already. As well as many other public places. Because it is dangerous out there. These days the mass gatherings are reserved for the farangs only at the immigration offices across the country. 

Since the Coronavirus is on the rise in Thailand I predict a general visa amnesty in a week time. Immigration offices will be definitely closed very soon after several of their workers will contract a virus. Never saw the same amount of visitors as today at Jomtien immigration. Should not it be the opposite? Enough idiocy.

24 minutes ago, elviajero said:

No it’s not!

 

Getting attested and locked up in the IDC is the last thing anyone should plan for; that doesn’t want COVID-19.

Come on. Chances to get arrested are slim especially now when people stay 95%+ of time at home.

My advise to everybody on overstay is to change the phone number registered with the immigration and, preferably, to change your old mobile device too. Theoretically, they could track down people using the mobile phone’s location. Also, change apartment while you have a valid visa in case the current address is also registered at the immigration. With these precautions everybody should be fine. 

21 minutes ago, bangkokboy888 said:

Result: DENIED and given seven days extension. ????
 

came in on visa exempt stamp. And extended one time already. Came with original poster letter and also generic USA embassy from other poster. 
 

immigration official insisted the letter need my name and that I need to pay the embassy money to crate it. 
 

I showed her the unavailable appointment slots printed out from USA embassy website. She said it was not her business. I told her I could not get an appointment and and there are no walk ins. Fell on dear ears. 
 

there was a young American girl with the same letter and email correspondence from embassy (I didn’t have email correspondence) and she was denied too. Perhaps because they seem to have an argument (I could hear them from the sitting area) the young American girl did not get even seven days. 
 

as I was waiting for my passport and extra seven days an elderly gentlemen also came in with the same letter. 
 

the immigration officer repeated her story and insisted we all needed this letter. This was in the “K” section the section for visa exempt arrival extensions. 
 

I saw two other people with the letter get rejected. Not looking good. 
 

at least seven days puts me past Malaysia lock down? What are my options for visa runs on April 5?

 

what a headache.  

Same story here at Jomtien immigration today. Was on tourist visa, extended it for 30 days on 19.02. Waited in the long line with hundreds of people. Refused extension - letter from embassy needed (to be honest - did not expect anything else from these awful people). Got 7 days extension only - for 1900 baht. Let’s hope Thailand gets totally shut down during this week so they will have no choice but to extend my stay.