Pakaty

I did my first successful online 90 day notification 3 months ago.  I am trying to do my another now but I am getting the "contact my local immigration office" message after filling out the first page.  Is there something I am forgetting to do?  My next report date is Jan. 22 so I'm in the right time frame.

Update: I just read some previous posts and saw the tip about not filling in non-stared fields and that did the trick so now I'm pending.  What a piece crap web page they made.

2 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

That will not happen at the majority of immigration offices. Very few offices will do a new 90 day report when you apply for an extension.

An extension application is not considered  a 90 day report unless it is the first one.

I just checked my passport to make sure I was not mistaken.

I did my extension May 11 it was due June 9.  I'm not sure of the exact date they put for me to report when I got the extension but I know that the date I did my next 90 day report was on Aug. 11.  I calculate that to be 91 days.

Sorry for the misinformation.  I just assumed all the offices did that.  This is in Phuket by the way.

Would I be correct in saying that almodeller could apply for his extensiion on Dec. 28-29 rather than doing his 90 day report?

I believe he still has a 1 week grace period after his Dec. 30 report date.

29 minutes ago, MickTurator said:

Which office is that?

Never happened to me and I have been on yearly extensions for over 20 years

Phuket office I just assumed it was the same every where.

1 hour ago, almodeller said:

Thanks gents but the reason I asked was to reduce the number of visits to immigration, I do not like the postal way .the online way is flaky so visits to immigration  are really the only way

You have to do your report in Dec.

You have to do your extension in Jan.

When you get your extension they will give you a new 90 day report date from the date of your extention.

22 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

Be sure you have everything correct.

Just do the required entries shown with a * beside them.

Sometimes that message will come up when the system cannot access the database where the records are kept. 

Success!

I entered only the fields with an * and got to the second page.

Trying to submit the second page I got server errors 3 times then I realized my VPN was connected to another country.  I switched to Thailand and it went through.  So I am now...PENDING

Thanks for your advice Joe...Always a wealth of information.

6 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Your nationality is shown as American on the drop down menu. Just start typing it and you will see this.

 

Darn, tried that and still got the "contact your local immigration office".

Thanks for that though.

Its odd that on the first page where you enter you details for nationality that for USA the only option to select is "UNITED STATES MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS".

Usually that is separate from United States.

What could be my problem?

I had another failed attempt to report online today.  Again, I got the "contact you local immigration office" (Phuket) after entering my details on the first page.  My report date is Nov. 06 and I think today is the first day I should be able to report online.  I'm quite sure I will get the same results the rest of this week.   I have never been successful.

I got a new extension in May.

I reported in person in Aug. after another failed online attempt.

Passport is 3 years old and I've been in and out of the country twice since.  Returning most recently in Feb. this year.

From what I have read in this thread it seems like I should be able to do this.

My friend's 90 day report is due today May 30 but he is leaving the country on June 05. He thinks he needs to make the report. I told him I don't think you need to with the 7 day grace period but I'm not 100% sure. So I'm asking here.

I do not believe Phuket now are able to do 'converstions'

That would be a shame. It was a lot easier than having to go to another country for a visa.

I was able to convert a tourist visa to a 90 day Non-O visa at Phuket Immingration. They said I had to wait until it had 30 days left and then I could apply for the retirement extension.

Recently ?

Not really, that was 3 years ago.

I was able to convert a tourist visa to a 90 day Non-O visa at Phuket Immingration. They said I had to wait until it had 30 days left and then I could apply for the retirement extension.

In Phuket they rely heavily on foreign volunteers. Some of the volunteers are really great. Sometime the office is overwhelmed other times not. But, it sounds like here in Phuket it's a breeze compared to Chiang Mai. Now I have never been to immigration in Chiang Mai but I have read many posts about it, including many of yours NancyL. You seem to have worked very hard to be of assistance to expats there.

Why not move to Phuket. I'm sure you would be very welcome here. Even at the immigration office

Cheers

Do those foreign volunteers have the correct "volunteering" visa or are they on retirement visas while working?

I don't know, but if I had to guess I would say no working visa. TIT

Or they could just stop giving Visa Agents 'free' access at any time.

Went to Promanada one morning (around 11am), looked at the huge queue, thought 'forget it'.

Walked into the G4 office and asked how long do I need to wait to get a retirement extension, they said around 15 minutes.

Yeah, It irks me when I see the visa agents just walk in all smiles and jokes and get serviced on the spot.

Yes they do and in my experience in Phuket the Swede was abusive and wrong. Later a Thai official came and explained everything. All was ok.

If it's the same guy I'm thinking of I had a problem with him last year as well.

Dark hair, heavy set?

In Phuket they rely heavily on foreign volunteers. Some of the volunteers are really great. Sometime the office is overwhelmed other times not. But, it sounds like here in Phuket it's a breeze compared to Chiang Mai. Now I have never been to immigration in Chiang Mai but I have read many posts about it, including many of yours NancyL. You seem to have worked very hard to be of assistance to expats there.

Why not move to Phuket. I'm sure you would be very welcome here. Even at the immigration office

Cheers

Well its been a year now and I still have not had a successful online report. Am I the only one?

I can't because I have a very old entry to the country, Plus I have gotten a new passport since then, Was told by immigration to do a border hop to get a new entry if I wanted to report online.

I have heard/read here old entries can be a problem. Mine was March 2015.

Well its been a year now and I still have not had a successful online report. Am I the only one?

I had my 90-day report successfully processed online on Monday this week.

On Monday, Tuesday and now Wednesday I have tried to do the same for my wife but consistently get a message to contact my local Immigration Office (Phuket).

Has anyone else had this problem?

Does the Immigration website not allow processing of more than one report every three months from the same PC. It hardly seems likely.

Cheers!

Hi Tap, I'm in Phuket and I get the same message. I have not yet had a successful online report. My next one is due Mar. 12 or near there. I'll try again and am hoping for a successful report but not banking on it.

I stand corrected

"enter before 15 January 2016"

I say do it by the 14th!

Wow That web page is a severe test of patience. Once I was finally able to get past all the bugs and hiccoughs and input my data on the first page all it does is return a blank page. 2 or 3 hours trying yesterday and 2 more today. I give up. The IE Tab worked a lot better than the User Agent Overrider though. I'm gonna have to go to immigration.

On a positive note, I was 12 days late last time and they waived the B2000 fine with a warning not to do it again . I promised that I would do it online and not waste their time again. Oh well, at least I won't be late.

I started messing with the MX Thai TV and got it to work.

If you would like to try it's very easy to install onto Kodi.

Go to http://www.thaisatellite.tv/repo/plugin.video.mxthai/

Download the last file. "plugin.video.mxthai-1.1.3.zip"

In Kodi go to "System" then "add-ons" and select "install from zip file"

Navigate to where you saved the .zip file and select it and it will install.

Now go back to the main Kodi welcome screen and select Video add-ons you will see MX Thai in your list. Select it and pick what channel you want to watch.

The SuperRepo repository for Kodi has 3 video add-ons for Thai TV. IPTVxtra PSI-TH, IPTVxtra Thai and IPTVxtra Thai Lite & HD. Between them you can view most any Thai TV channel.

If your internet IP address is not in Thailand you may need a VPN connected to a Thai server.

The MX repository found in the Community Portal has/had a good Thai TV viewer but has not worked for me for awhile.

Did my 1-year renewal in Phuket again (this is renewal #12). Letter from US Embassy all that was needed. Had copies of my bankbook every page but they just gave back without even looking. Something new though, a required copy of credit card, discussed that a bit but had to go downstairs and get copy. Credit card copy was barely legible, name was "Preferred Member", front only but it satisfied the lads. Filed docs in the PM, got photo made, and receipt with spamed item to pick up ppt next day at 1030. Did that, all very smooth.

That's interesting about having to give a copy of a credit card. I did mine last week in Phuket and had heard some people have been asked for that. I took a copy of mine (with the first 12 digits covered) and they did not ask for it. I wonder why they ask for it from some and not others. I also had statements from 3 banks and they only took a statement from 1 even though the the 1 bank alone did not match my declared income.