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1 hour ago, DogNo1 said:

Help.  I can't find the place to register my email and receive a password to complete the 90-day online report. I have clicked on online services on the page but that just brings up the instructions screen again.   Could someone please tell me how to report online starting at the immigration.go.th page.  Thanks.

OK, use this link.

https://tm47.immigration.go.th/tm47/#/login 

And, it's really easier using it with a phone, more than other devices, I've found. And if you have trouble with a browser, try another.

Follow the instructions to register, copy and paste the password from the email you'll receive to confirm the registration process.

When you log in you'll want submit a new report. (Also later, you can change the password to a preferred one at log in time, by hitting the 'forget password'. They'll send an email and from there you can set your new password.)

6 hours ago, marin said:

Mine cleared last night. Woke up to approved. Load off my shoulders.

Submitted on the 12th and approved on the 19th, with the office being closed three days (Thur., Fri. and Mon.)....not bad, considering.

7 hours ago, Gandtee said:

I'm due on the 30th April. I applied on the 18th and got no reply. No indication it's been received.? When to go into panic mode?????

Have you checked the status at the website? If your online submission was indeed received a check of its status on the website will show whether it's PENDING or APPROVED. If there is no listing for it, then it was somehow not successfully submitted.

By the way, I'll add that you might want to go ahead and give the 90-day online reporting system a shot. I believe there has been at least one report of someone having successfully done online a  'first 90 day report following a change in passport'. 

You could submit it, with the new passport and 'stay until date'. See what happens. Will it be received for consideration? Will you get a rejection or approval after x number of days? You could try to submit one today, as early as possible. I would try it, can't do any harm.

7 hours ago, DogNo1 said:

 

Today I had thought of getting my 90-day queue number before I did my extension of stay but my planning was poor.   I just didn't expect the 90-day station to be that crowded.

That would have been an ideal way to have done it, and now you know.

I hear you, about being tired, just forget it, do it later. You've got plenty of days.

And for the re-entry permit you can make an appointment online, and maybe there will be a time slot for you that you prefer. That will shorten considerably the time needed for that. And pickup the number for the 90-day report first thing when you get in the office, that'll help.

4 hours ago, DogNo1 said:

I headed over to the 90-day report section at 1430.  I was given a queue number of 534 with 314 people waiting ahead of me.  Each person was taking 4-5 minutes so I could see that I wouldn’t be able to report today.

At CW if you get a number you'll be handled that day. (You are not turned away and told to come back another day.)

Yes, it was a jammed-up turnout today after the Songkran holidays, and from 2:30 could have taken 2-3 more hours of waiting. Wouldn't have to spend all of it in the office waiting. Could go downstairs, have some food, relax at a coffee shop, kill some of that time. If one is already out there, maybe getting it done then and there beats making a return trip? That's a calculation for one to make.

Later in the afternoon the pace of the numbers being called tends to pick up.

On 4/17/2023 at 12:17 PM, kimothai said:

I was told at immigration a long time ago your re-entry permit is tied to the extension you used to apply for the re-entry permit. Once you update/renew the extension the re-entry permit is no longer valid. 

I received an extension (one-year, retirement) at CW several years back, about 30 days ahead of the one I had expiring. I asked about this type of situation, whether the existing re-entry permit stamp in my passport, showing validity for the next 30 days, could be used for a trip out-and-back completed within that time frame.

No was the answer. If I wanted to take a trip, I'd need a 'fresh' re-entry permit. Why chance it? Get a new re-entry permit, issue solved.

On 4/6/2023 at 6:49 AM, soisanuk said:

Why is it many posters with information on Immigration issues never state the Immigration Office where it occurred?   Although the overall rules are supposed to apply to all, each Immigration Office has their own policies.  From reports I have seen, it appears

This, yes!

Anyway, a good rule of thumb for those with extensions using the 'banked' method, update the bankbook showing an account balance in accordance with the requirement three months after the date of the extension.   

And update the bankbook two months prior to the date of the next extension application which shows a balance amount that meets the requirement.

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I don't know what was going on there, and whether they were also doing some other kind of applications in the B section, but for the first 15 minutes or so I was waiting there, the 2 or 3 working officers (mostly the civilian young woman types as opposed to the uniformed police types) spent the entire time with the same single applicant each. I had no idea what they were doing and why things were taking so long for what ought to be a simple piece of business.

Same thoughts I had when I got an RC at CW. It completed a 'trifecta' of sorts on the day; extension, re-entry permit and residence certificate in one go. Appointments for the first two were smooth (except for a 50-minute wait for freshly-stamped passport to be returned after the desk session.)

But the certificate process was...well, it took two hours from first getting a number to the finish. (Tip for next time: Pickup that number for the service before doing the appointed extension.)

Four desks at the B counter. But functions other than certificates have to be taking place there. There was one person being served who ended up being in front of the desk for more than an hour! The queue moved so slow, I left to go downstairs for a bite.

There were about 25 numbers ahead of me when I started. Finally, when my number was called, I bounded in, handed over my copies and passport (the clerk didn't even look at the passport), confirmed the mailing address, and paid the 200 baht. I don't think it took even three minutes, maybe closer to two, and I was done.

What else is being handled at those desks? It can't take that  long just to process requests for residence certificates.

1 hour ago, Dart12 said:

I have one last land border run allowed which would take me to almost august.  

then I need to figure out a way to stay another 2 months ish.  

I don't qualify for retirement yet... and education, etc is overpriced for that short term.

Wish it was as easy as places like the philipines, but hey...part of the fun I guess, right?

Yep, I get it. Got to be judicious with the border runs. And it's a tougher row to hoe here than it is for the PI, no doubt.

Part of the fun...'yeah'.

Keep us posted how it turns out for you.

1 hour ago, Dart12 said:

US Embassy.
 

Land border Cambodia.

Jomtien immigration.

"Are we clear?"

"Yes, crystal."

Got it now. Ordinarily, it is residents here who are acquiring new passports and then subsequently having current extension permits transferred to the new passport. And I assumed an air entry by you, visa-exempt, and as a shorter-term visitor getting a new passport here then applying for a 30-day extension of your stay. But you came in by land, with an entry stamp from a border post.

I'd suggest as soon as you have the new passport go apply for the extension at Jomtiem. You won't lose any days applying early. Again, I can't see how they'd tell someone to return to a border post for an entry stamp transfer to a new passport. I don't even know if that's possible. That's really would be lot.  But you never know. And if a wrench is thrown your way, then you some time.

Ordinarily, in cases like this the traveler just uses both passports on departure from the country. No problem, easy. But as you are seeking a 30-day extension with the new passport, before exiting, this is little different. 

The letter will be included in the envelope returning your passports. The Jomtiem office has likely had similar cases as yours before. Haven't read any reports of someone instructed to return to a land border for an entry stamp transfer to a new passport. With both passports and the letter Jomtien should either transfer it to the new passport or make some kind of note of it along with the extension in the new one, and in that case--maybe most cases with an in-country acquired passport--you would use both passports when you do exit.

18 hours ago, Dart12 said:

I am awaiting a new passport from the embassy now.  I'm currently on 45 visa exempt.  

Are you saying I'll need to travel to the border to get re-stamped/ stamp transferred in order to get my next 30 day stamp at immigration?

Excuse me, I didn't read this carefully. I assumed you entered 45-days visa exempt by air. (Even though you did not say that.) And the border thing you were referencing was for an out-and-back bounce, not that Imm would direct you to get that entry stamp transferred there. (Because I was still incorrectly assuming a by air entry.) But it was at a land border that you entered. Got it, finally.

The new passport is coming to you by mail, could anywhere in the country. My response is based on what I would expect Bangkok immigration to do in this case, but other offices may not act that way 

If you don't mind, from which land border did you enter, and which immigration office are you planning to use to apply for the 30-day extension?

1 hour ago, Dart12 said:

Yes, that's pretty much it....

so I will need to email the Embassy and make a special request for that letter to be mailed back to me along with my passports?

this correct?

As the fellas above have noted, the U.S. and some others automatically provide the letter. At least one embassy (Australia?) puts a stamp in the passport for this purpose. 

Regarding the above, it's also possible immigration will just put the extension stamp in the new passport, leaving your entry stamp in the expired one. And then when you do exit the country have both passports ready to present at the immigration booth upon departure.

But I just don't see any situation where you would be refused a 30-day extension because you've got a new passport, and be told to do an exit-and-return to get an additional 30 days. (Think the 45-day visa-exempt stay is supposed to end on March 31, after which it would return to the standard 30 days. Assuming....)

5 hours ago, Dart12 said:

I am awaiting a new passport from the embassy now.  I'm currently on 45 visa exempt.  

Are you saying I'll need to travel to the border to get re-stamped/ stamp transferred in order to get my next 30 day stamp at immigration?

OK, let's get clear here. You entered visa-exempt, a 45-day stay. And while here you have applied for a new passport, from either your embassy or passport-issuing agency. And you desire to get a 30-day extension, at or near the end of your 45 days. 

So we're talking about an entry stamp here. If that is correct, just take both passports with you at the time of applying for the extension. Your entry stamp and any other pertinent info should be transferred from the old one to the new one, and then you should be able to proceed with the 30-day extension application.

At least that's how I believe it would go. But it's a good idea to contact the immigration office you will apply for the 30 day extension with and confirm that.

Having a letter from your embassy, or passport-issuing agency, for Thai immigration, which requests the entry stamp transfer should be needed. Your new passport itself might have a stamp placed in it for Thai immigration for that purpose, in lieu of the letter.

23 minutes ago, JimmyJ said:

Will they only xfer stamps at the airport if departing on an internatonal flight, or will they do it if I a flying domestically also?

Only international. There is no mechanism for stamps to be transferred to a new passport at the airport for a domestic flight. You're not going through immigration.

1 hour ago, Pinot said:

How quickly do you need to have the stamp transferred? I get a new passport in October and a apply for a yearly AO Visa in November. Can I just wait for the new one? Carry the old one with the new one?

 

You will acquire the new passport next October, correct? Then you can proceed with the stamps and info transfer to the new passport in November at the time of your yearly extension. (Believe that's what you mean, an extension, not a 'Yearly AO visa'.)

That's the best way to do it in that scenario. 

By the way, what you have is a 45-day, visa-exempt entry.

Yep. 'Admitted untill.....', can fly out, exit, on that date.

11 hours ago, edwardandtubs said:

I usually sign in black ink and have never had a problem.

Same same, have always signed, filled out, everything at CW in black ink and never had a problem. 

18 minutes ago, MeaMaximaCulpa said:

Yeah, just thought about that. I also use BBL, and can get current balance without any transaction. If you use other banks that may not be the case.

Yes, it may not be the same for other banks, how they handle the entries for bankbook updates. But nice that the way Bangkok Bank does it eliminates the need for those small transactions. 

6 hours ago, SergeD said:

In Bangkok Bank if you place your bank book in updating machine without any transaction it will just print actual amount on your account and actual date anyway. So you don’t need to make any additional transaction to verify your balance.

Ditto, my experience with Bangkok Bank. Never have needed to do the 'transaction shuffle',  just the bankbook update only on the day of extension. Bank letters acquired a day or two in advance, no problem. This is for CW in Bangkok.

1 hour ago, MJCM said:

So you are saying if on a extension of stay (retirement/ marriage) it’s different?

Well, just saying that if you are on an extension and are going to be returning, who's to say that a skipped 90-day report won't be noticed at some point? Either at the time you'd have to do the next one, or even at extension renewal time, if one was going to extend.

Others say no problem, but I would just do it. 

Just wondering...are you on a visa-exempt entry, or tourist visa? If so, yes, you could skip doing it. 

No, no can do.

You can't apply for an extension if you are not in-country. At some point in the process you will have to present yourself at the immigration office

Plus the new stamp has to be put in the passport.

Unless there is some 'one-off, special consideration understanding', it's not possible.