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Not new but you probably missed it so time to enjoy it now. Victorian comedic fun. I do realize that the terminally literal humorless anti-"woke" obsessives won't like that there's a black lady in this (get over yourselves!).

Pay careful attention to the photo requirements as there are many and quite specific. You need to know so that you can prepare and also oversee the process at the photo place as they will tend to know basic things such as required US size but not necessarily all the details. For example -- background color, no glasses, no big open mouth smiles to be safe don't smile at all, the size of the head in the photo has a range of specs, no shadows, look straight at the camera, and more. No need to dress formally but obviously no wifebeaters. On my first take this time my head was tilted a bit which may or may not have been OK but the photo people didn't know about that rule so got to do a second take with that in mind.

Just did this. 35 days total. Embassy in Bangkok. CM consulate might be different. The trickier part is after the new passport arrived back in Bangkok. The embassy says that Thai Post sends an email with tracking number.when the package is picked up at the embassy. NO they don't. The embassy also doesn't send an email about that. You can get tracking number from the Thai Post site where you bought the envelope. However you'll need to check that everyday until it shows something. Also often you need to search twice as often it shows nothing on first try.

He's a US senator asking a question. He wasn't violent. The maga fascist thugs are. You're in a bubble of lies.

The maga fascists appear to have skipped civics classes.

More fascism theater from the vile anti-democracy, anti-rule of law Trump regime.

This is stupid. Pass phrases are the same thing as codes. The point isn't about the mechanics of launching. It's about WHO we have in charge of launching. Trump is not qualified to manage a gas station.

Trump isn't capable of memorizing phrases if they aren't propaganda slogans.

Rule is rules innit

I can conclude the report of my own passport renewal by mail saga. Short version -- it wasn't fun. Total time from sending from Jomtien and back to me -- 35 days If not including in Thailand transport -- 31 days This is in line with many reports this year. Some dramatically shorter but the majority seems to be about a month. Which is quite good! Also consider higher and lower travel seasons and possibly state department staff cuts which as far as renewals from abroad does NOT seem to have been a problem. Some picks and nits. I think the weakest link in this process is the Thai Post thing. First of all I had trouble actually paying for it online. Secondly I found their web interface which I could get in English quite confusing especially when I started looking at after I knew my new passport was in Bangkok. I knew I had paid for it and sent the confirmation but I wasn't 100 percent sure that the embassy actually had it. Yes I could have contacted them and asked but I hoped if it was missing they would contact me. Well it wasn't missing. Then there's the TRACKING. The Bangkok embassy instructions clearly says that Thai Post will email you the tracking number once it's in their system (to get sent to you). That is not true. There is no such email with tracking number. There is the initial email with payment confirmation and order number. The order number is NOT the tracking number. So when state informs you that they have sent the new passport to the embassy you're then in limbo. You have no idea when it will get there and actually get sent so you can start to track it with the tracking number that is on the Thai Post website by this time (no email). It won't see anything with that tracking number until the package gets entered in their system when Thai Post picks it up at the embassy. BTW -- the embassy does not email to tell you when they sent it. I guess they still believe that Thai Post sends an email, which they don't. So then how to track it. Well after a number of days have gone by you can start checking the tracking number on the Thai Post website showing your order. It will show nothing UNTIL the time that it gets picked up at the embassy. But wait, there's more. Often even after the package is finally in the system, it STILL shows nothing when tracking. You need to track it again and then it will show up if it's there. You may even need to restart your device. So the package is finally coming. You can see that by tracking. In my case contrary to another report Thai Post actually called me to announce it's arrival. I was definitely waiting. Is there more, you ask? Some kind of issue with the new passport? Yes, unfortunately there is. At a later time I will start a new topic about that. I'm passported out at this time!

That reminds me of my very first application for a retirement extension at Jomtien. Yes I looked younger than the required age 50 at the time. The first thing out of the officer's mouth was -- is this a fake passport? OMG. Welcome to Thailand!

It shouldn't be except as stated as they have a rule and if they have a way to check that you "cheated" by looking at a previous application.

For the OP, I hadn't considered the situation where they could look at the photo on a previous application and see it's the same and too old. In that case, I would get a new one.

Irrelevant. Not for a new passport. Also technically you're supposed to get a new passport if your appearance has changed dramatically. More like things like major weight gain or loss rather than normal aging.

Not president now.

I would say no problem. How would they know unless you are aging very rapidly?

Yes there are.

Nobody here has nuclear codes and thinks he's King of America. Next ...

He's morphing very rapidly beyond wannabe at this point. Yes many maga fascists love that. But lots of his suckered voters didn't have a clue what they were going to get. It's hard to have sympathy for them as it was totally obvious to anyone paying any attention.

The most corrupt "president" in American history and it's not even close.

Shambolic as expected.

A columnist in the Washington Post recently said that Trump will probably rename Washington DC to Trump DC.

State inflates the estimates to cover their butts. Unless there is an issue with your application, you can probably bank on early July.

Probably first week of July or last days of June.

Yeah they like online reports quite early. That fairly recently changed. I'm not sure what the exact parameters are now though.