CharlesSwann

Presumably the membership fee for aisle shopping is to encourage people to buy from the agents as Amway relies on the agents, and the agents need the sales to keep them at it.

Usually get their L.O.C. Multi-purpose Cleaner through an agent - that stuff is worth seeking out.

49 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

90 day address reporting has nothing to do with your allowed stay - it is a report to immigration after you stay in country 90 days and every 90 days thereafter.  If you depart/return on a re-entry permit you are stamped in until the same date your stay allowed prior to exit.  But for 90 day address reporting the period starts again as you have just returned (this has nothing to do with your allowed stay).  What is said on this forum is exactly what I have written above and is correct.

The confusion in this thread (I think) is whether a new 90 day period starts, or whether the previous 90 day period resumes, on coming in after a re-entry permit.

Just for absolute unambiguous clarification, when you say "the period starts again", you do mean that a new 90 day period starts, from day one, after coming back in on a re-entry permit? That at least is how I've always understood it - Chaeng Wattana have told me quite clearly that this is the case - and I have never had any problem.

The ambiguity is that some people might think you mean "the period re-starts again".

Edit: sorry, corrected my garbled negatives.

1 hour ago, lopburi3 said:

And if using taxi service there is none available at door late in day and it is a long walk to main road if you are not aware of public transport.  

Call me masochist but I always walk down to Chaeng Wattana from the main road and always enjoy it. Twelve minutes of calm before the storm. For me, stress=people. Burn a few calories to boot.

1 hour ago, partington said:

The only problem with this is if you want to get a re-entry permit on the same day.

 

It happened to me once that I arrived after lunch, there was a long wait, and I got my extension too late to appply for the re-entry permit. So another entire trip to CW was needed.

Good point. I've never tried getting a re-entry permit at the same time. Last time I renewed though, I'm sure there would have been time in the afternoon to get a re-entry as well - they don't take long, right? (as I recall).

The problem with staying all afternoon at CW though is that you then have to get out during the rush hour, which is a bit of a mare.

1 hour ago, Koratjohn77 said:

Doesn't it take like 30 days to get your passport with the extension stamp back if you do it yourself?  I've been using an agent for 4 years and I always have my passport with the extension done within two days and I've never had a problem with reporting or anything at all.  How long does the entire process take if you do it yourself till you actually get your passport back with the extension stamp?  

 

I heard that you have to wait for a home visit from immigration and all kinds of hoops you have to jump through.  With the agent I never have to do anything except go to immigration for 5 minutes a year and of course report every 90 days which is easy.  Other than that they do it all for me.  I'm considering doing it myself next year or maybe the year after but I don't know.  Is it really as difficult as I've heard to do it yourself?  

Is that what the agent told you? You've been duped.
 

You just turn up with your passport and photo and the relevant photocopies. Pick up and fill in the form at the first desk (or prepare one earlier to save time), get a ticket from the second desk, wait around (never less than 90 minutes in my experience). When your number is shown someone checks your documents are all in order (takes a minute or two) and you sit back down.  After another wait you will be called by number (listen out) to an adjacent desk who processes the stuff and takes the payment. You then wait again a short while (maybe 10-15 minutes) and they will call you by name to give you your passport all done and dusted.

The only hassle is the bank thing. They want photocopies of your bank book(s) showing the current date, and a same-day letter from the bank, so you have to deposit/withdraw something from the account, update the book in the machine, then get the photocopes made. Fortunately at Chaeng Wattana the bank and the photocopy shops are close by, so there's no problem other than 15 minutes hassle.

I never go first thing in the morning - seems like a neurotic strategy - you have to get up at an unearthly hour, fight your way there in the rush hour, and it's the busiest time of the day when you get there - there's a long queue even to get your ticket - and you are lucky to get done by lunchtime. I always go in the afternoon when it is quieter and gets done much quicker, within a couple of hours, as I did a couple of weeks ago.

Waste of money to use an agent.