HexTree

2 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

5 hours ago, WideWheels said:

Yeah I realised I had applied for STV instead of TV but I've done a new one and it is now still asking for irrelevant information like:

 

A confirmation letter from employer, School, Self-assessment, Pension statement

Identity of the person inviting you to stay e.g. Thai ID card, Passport 

That appears to be the requirements for a Multiple Entry Tourist Visa (METV).

The site does actually ask for those for Single Entry Tourist Visa, and doesn't let you proceed until you upload something. I ran into that too.

Aircon avoids me having a stuffy nose, because fan tends to move dust about.

Just try at another office. Until all the offices in the country are asking for it (which doesn't appear to be the case yet) you have options.

1 hour ago, RedArmy said:

I did advise to avoid KP immigration earlier in this thread a few days ago.

As I understand it, people on volunteer visas have been having issues getting COVID extensions nationwide, it's not necessarily a problem specific to KP. I suggested KP because OP, like me, is on a tourist visa, not a volunteer visa.

6 minutes ago, Daithi85 said:

how many weeks before your visa expires can u apply in koh phangan?

I think around 1-2 weeks? I saw people who were coming longer in advance getting turned away, but I don't know where the cut-off is.

Should note also that in KP you must have the TM30 receipt of notification with you; either the paper receipt or a screenshot of the online TM30 entry given by your landlord.

1 hour ago, RedArmy said:

Bad advice !!!

 

KP does not have an airport so cannot fly there - Can fly to Samui & take the ferry - And if travelling via this route, why not just apply at Samui Immigration ??

 

Also - Had a report on here a few weeks ago of problems with KP Immigration issuing Covid Extensions.

Yes, I didn't say you have to fly directly to the island, you can just fly to Samui and take the boat from there, which is fast and straightforward.

As for why not Samui, because Samui is more busy usually, and the staff there are quite confrontational (the short haired lady who does the initial document check likes to argue a lot). I don't see much reason to pick Samui over Phangan personally. Don't see how any of that was bad advice, if you wanted the office that was just absolutely fastest to get to then clearly the answer is neither Samui nor Phangan, but your local office.

Do you have a link to the report of problems? The only problems I normally saw at Phangan were with people trying to apply too long before their expiration, or wanting the 60 days when they hadn't done the 30 day regular extension first.

17 minutes ago, Daithi85 said:

Are there any  immigration offices that are known to be more covid extension friendly? 

Don't know about recent weeks, but from my numerous experiences, Koh Phangan was always spot on. Extensions granted no questions asked, no long queues, no 'under consideration' stamps. If I were to have difficulty elsewhere I would happily fly there and back just to do the extension.

16 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

I take it the parents were unaware of how to perform CPR, tsk tsk. Very sad. ????

Is there any reason to assume they didn't try CPR? The article doesn't exactly mention.

On 2/13/2022 at 9:22 AM, Guderian said:

Just find a photo of a negative ATK test, download it onto your phone, then if anyone asks for it tell them it was your negative test result from two days ago, lol.

I'm above resorting to lying and trickery, I would quite happily walk and give some other establishment my business. Taking the test isn't an issue, it's the principle of being asked for it.

This has always been the case. They don't actually 'watch' it, that would take man-hours, but their AI does. A few years back I got a file flagged for copyright or something, and immediately had my Google account suspended (that means all accounts - Youtube, Gmail, Drive), and they refused to look into the case or tell me what the problem was. Had to get a mate who worked at Google to pull some strings and get it looked over and revoked, as it was apparently a false positive.

It has been straightforward so far, but it varies between offices, and nobody can say for sure whether things will change in terms of strictness towards the end of the month. Your best move really is to go 1-2 weeks before your expiration, get your extension, and then you'll have peace of mind to book your airbnb.

56 minutes ago, bert bloggs said:

Why go to immigration on a monday,always busy

The COVID extension deadline is tomorrow. They pretty much have to go today, tomorrow will be worse.

14 hours ago, wadman said:

I have my "visa under consideration" already.  When I go to get my actual visa stamp (covid extension), do I have to stand in that loooooong line?  Or can I hand it off to the people on the right-hand side (outside the office), where people come to collect their passports?

You can just go to the right-hand side. I queued for hours with my own 'under consideration' stamp, only to be told to go back out and head to that desk.

18 minutes ago, Annika DM said:

Sorry, just saw that you said tix box no 2? I thought it was better to tick box no 1 "due to the ongoing pandemic"?

You tick all that apply. I always tick box 1, and the 'other' box at the bottom, and write something about it not being safe to travel. I don't personally tick the embassy box, because since I didn't actually ask the embassy it's technically lying (even though I know what they'll probably say). Either way, nobody really cares which boxes you tick.

1 hour ago, stuarty said:

Hi.  I have read on another forum that the FIRST 60 day covid extension would start from the date of approval, and only subsequent extensions would begin at the end of the previous 60 days.

All extensions should be starting from the current expiry date. The other forum might be referring to back in 2020 when some offices were going by date of approval, which resulted in people intentionally coming as late as possible, but that shouldn't be the case now.

I arrived in Samui 29th. I just showed them the paperwork for my ATK test, and that was fine. Most other passengers were showing a QR code for their vaccines; the officers just glanced at them, no scanning or anything, so realistically for all they knew the QR code could have been a McDonalds advert or something, lol.

After getting the boat (Raja) to Phangan, nothing. Just got off the boat and left the pier.

2 hours ago, aussiexpat said:

A Covid extension is supposed to be because you can't get home, not because you can't do a border run lol

The Covid extension has always allowed you to put other reasons beyond just not getting home. If you check the form, one such tickable box is "pandemic is ongoing", which I always tick. And I add more in the 'Other' field.

4 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Yes, I do.  Do you understand the meaning of the words "in" and "at"?

'In the premises of the shop' is just another way of saying 'at the shop'. Apologies for not using the the EXACT phrasing of the article, I didn't recall it from memory, and I didn't really expect posters to obsess to this extent over insignificant details. Either way, what I said was grammatically correct, and the meaning was clear from the context.

1 minute ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You're HexTree, yes?...

"...the foreigner was drinking with friends in the premises of the shop.

That's what I said, yes. Do you understand what the word premises means?

1 minute ago, Liverpool Lou said:

you've been posting that he was drinking "in the shop"

Again, I never once said "in the shop", I don't know why you keep claiming that.

1 minute ago, scubascuba3 said:

new system? anyway subsequent 90 days should be 5 mins max

Yup, new system. Last week. Whenever I clicked the dropdown boxes to select a country or whatever, the busy loading symbol would appear and a few seconds later I'd be booted back to the homepage. But it's an improvement at least, could never get the old system to work.

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

or do it online in 5 minutes

Took me over an hour on multiple browsers, it kept timing out in the midst of filling the form so I had to use a script to quickly autofill most of the fields before hitting the timeout. ????

You also use have to use this line to collect your 'Under Consideration' visa. I found out the hard way.