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you need to do it right away. Your embassy should have given you a letter addressed to Immigration asking them to move your extension to your new passport (required by immigration). If I remember correctly you are supposed to do by law within 2 weeks. Your old passport is no longer valid. Regardless, the letter from your embassy has a date on it. Immigration does not like 'stale' (docs with not recent dates on it) documents. If you wait, they may or may not give you a hard time, its up to the immigration officer. Why create issues with immigration???????

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the issuance of 2 passports by your home country is your home county's prerogative. The acceptance of both - or only one  - by a visiting country is the visiting country's prerogative. You use of 2 in this instance is skirting thai law, whether that was your intention or not. They are within their rights to demand your usage of only one. 

DO NOT give them your passport. they can cancel your visa without it. If my memory serves me correctly you have 2 weeks to get your immigration status changed or leave the country. Go yourself to immigration if necessary but don't give them your  ex employer your passport.

more info. What country are you from? First time getting extension or what?

They want you to get a real tourist visa. Why not get a real 60 day or 6 month tourist visa and avoid all the hassle??????????? You're playing russian roulette with your next visit.

Room 7 is for express service. if you want the residency certificate for free go upstairs to the imm office there. free but it takes 2 visits and about 3 weeks. if you get frustrated with the program, maybe you shouldn't live here.

I would make sure she goes to immigration. The Police and Immigration never interact unless there's a problem. Saying Mai pen rai doesn't update the immigration records.

What could go wrong??? Why wait?? you've been undoubtedly earmarked in the system now so get a retirement visa now! Why wait??? Fix your visa status on this trip asap.

you are required to go to immigration when you get a new passport to transfer your visa to the new passport from your old passport. If I remember, it must be reported within 2 or 4 weeks of the issuance of the new passport. You can't just show up at the airport with a clean passport and leave the country. You'll raise all kind of red flags with immigration at the airport if you try it; be pulled over, maybe fined, etc.

No, actually 2 months is normal for a check to clear from Thailand to another country. The check has to be physically processed; processed at the depositing bank then sent from the depositing bank to Bangkok where it is additionally processed, then physically sent overseas to the correspondence bank then sent to the overseas local bank then the process is reversed, all with paperwork. But I don't understand why the poster didn't do a wire transfer which is 24 hours.

Mine was loose also, so I removed it. I keep it in the back of my plastic cover for my passport with my passport. So if anyone asks, I have. The only country that it will matter to is Cambodia and perhaps your country of origin. You still have your entrance and exit stamp for Cambodia showing the entrance and exit out of the country so the visa is secondary. What would matter if the pages were damaged or not. Thailand wants to see your visa for Thailand and your entrance and exit stamps for Thailand. 

Part of the confusion is that if you 'home ' address is a service apartment or other accommodation that has several foreigners staying, they report on a regular basis. If you are staying in a private home with no regular reporting, then the owner has to report it. The onus is on the owner of the property as they can be fined. In practice, most of the larger offices with many foreigners do not do; smaller offices will periodically enforce as they are following the rules more rigorously. 

the overstay fine is 500 baht a day. so if they let you work it off at 200 baht a day in jail, you may be spending more time there than you realize....

Normally a work permit is given for a specific work location. You are supposed to keep the work permit at the work location, not at home, not on you. They can extend the work permit to other locations if your the business you are working for is setup to have official business offices in other provinces. 

Not so unusual. I've heard of Iranians with American passports several years ago that have been told they had to return to the US for the issuance of a new passport, and they could not renew through the US embassy...

I have heard from many Italians that the Italian embassy is strict on whatever doc is needed for the issuance of any doc for any reason from the consulate. This is an Italian only requirement. All embassies set their own rules for what they issue.

Chiang Mai immigration required it 6 months ago. Free of charge at US consulate for US citizens...

MOVE!!!

born here - Thai citizen. May have to register the birth at a government office. Don't need a visa. You can get American citizenship for the baby by registering at the American embassy. Your baby has dual citizenship.

and what country has a good working number for imm info?

Sounds like BS. SOunds like the law firm is setting you up for billing every three months. You should go to another 1 or 2 other law firms and take your business elsewhere.

What your 'agent' is saying makes no sense. Maybe he will now suggest that he can clear it all up for a few baht more. I would go directly to Immigration and ask them directly - or go ask another agent.