uberfarang

19 minutes ago, BritTim said:

Were you trying for a 30-day extension of a tourist entry (of either 60-day entry with a visa or 30-day entry visa exempt); or were you trying for a 60-day extension of any entry type based on Thai wife or other family member? The new office is only for the 30-day extensions of tourist entries.

extension of tourist visa (60 days and already extended 30 days) 

I just spent the past 4 hours waiting at that new office to be turned away one meter from the counter... they told me they only process 30 days tourist visa here but mine is 60 days and must be done at CW counter J.

I thought all tourist visas were 60 days (single entry), and 30 days was visa on arrival, so what are they processing here? I'm now on my way (again) to CW. 

18 minutes ago, sanemax said:

You must have gotton there a bit later then 1 PM , I got there after that and still got seen, as did quite a few others, you must have got there gone 2 PM , because they started refusing people about 2-3 PM .

   None of the photocopies needs to be in colour, but I just colour photocopied my Embassy letter to make it look more official, dont know whether it made any difference or not or whether they would have rejected a B&W one

my bad, I didn't realize this thread was about Chiang Mai office, I went to the new temporary Bangkok office.

Seems like the requirements change every time and there is more nitpicking every day, do they also need the photocopies to be color ones? They didn't ask for proof of housing? proof of cancelled flight?

I was there yesterday (got turned away because the queue was already full for the day at 1pm) and there didn't seem to be a copy shop anywhere around so better be prepared.