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1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

That is the reason you had to leave the country. Immigration can only change entries to the country. They cannot cancel a valid extension of stay to change your permit to stay to one year.

What they have normally told people to do is fly out and back to get the sticker done on entry at Suvarnabhumi airport.

i haven't done the airport fixing stamp process, the process seems much simpler at the airport, than CW, its something that in the past i wasn't aware of, and this time i am, the CW process can be held up, as that section near to the 90 day reporting, to fix the stamps can be really slow, or in that day's case, the whole team had to leave the section for a meeting, which made everyone wait an extra 2 hours

15 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

They must of been a reason they could not of changed your permit to stay stamp to one year. Were you on a extension of stay or a visa entry.

Many others have got the one year stamp as soon as they did the sticker.

it must have changed over the time, the extension was on the previous year visa stamp, which was expiring, and the last extension was a week from expiring, as the new visa stamp was placed in the same passport at CW, i had to activate the new visa, by leaving, then coming back in, with the new extension activated from the new visa stamp

11 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

I wrote this.

Note I wrote both permanent residency and a work permit. Those with permanent residency and no work permit were not allowed to enter the country.

I didnt see that in my original reply, that just shows how this kind of regime can restrict many, long term visa types with this corona virus

'When immigration at a office put the PE visa sticker in a person's passport they change the current entry stamp to one year from the day the visa was issued. When done at an airport they do a one year entry as soon as the sticker is done.'

My experience 3.5 years ago, was a little different, after they placed the visa stamp at CW, i was told to activate the new visa by having to leave, then come back in to the country, if that has changed thats good

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

When immigration at a office put the PE visa sticker in a person's passport they change the current entry stamp to one year from the day the visa was issued. When done at an airport they do a one year entry as soon as the sticker is done.

 

Only those with with permanent residency and a work permit were able to enter the country. Several people I am aware of with permanent residency and no work permit are still stuck outside the country and faced losing their residency due to not being able to enter before their re-entry permit expired. They no longer have to worry about their residency since a exemption is in the recent ministerial order.

Yes, that was my point also, that many long term visa types were/are stopped from entering, apart from permanent residency and work permits, that under this kind of regime, many people are being affected from entering, elite visas too

11 hours ago, JimGant said:

Interesting. I was under the impression you could do all this without ever leaving the country.

 

Presumably, besides the visa, you would receive a one year permission of stay stamp. And, like annual renewal of extensions, you could do this with 30 days (45 days in CM) remaining on your then current extension of stay.

the conversion of any visa, is immigration, Elite have to abide to that, if i have a 5 year visa attached to my passport, immigration requests, the visa to be activated by leaving the country, then enter the country, the visa is now activated, once i have the visa activated, i can renew by extending the visa, without having to exit the country

On 4/17/2020 at 2:21 PM, richard_smith237 said:

One updated bit of info on the Thai Elite Visa. 

 

There was uncertainty amongst many (myself included) regarding whether or not The Thai Elite Visa was considered a ‘resident visa’.

 

The statement below from Thai Elite makes it clear that the Thai Elite Visa is a long term tourist visa and nothing more. 

 

[Thailand Elite Visa is a special type of tourist Visa and is not counted as a permanent residence. Therefore, if you do not have a work permit, you may be refused to enter the kingdom of Thailand until April 30st, 2020 according to the decree.]

 

 

A permanent residency is different at immigration, what you re-printed is because of the corona virus, only permanent residents, work permits were allowed to enter temporarily, all other visas, marriage, retirement, elite, were not allowed, i dont get the negativity on the visa class, when most long term visas are similar in that, you can stay but legally you are unable to work

54 minutes ago, Snig27 said:

It's like a stuck record – new numbers are announced and the TV medical committee announce they are all fake then go back to their fifth Chang of the day. 

If you have some solid data people, not just barroom expert theory, please post it.

booze ban alert, when these control freak chinese communist puppets, re-open the booze, i am sure you be having de-caf, non-fat, no foam latte, like a real tough guy 

16 hours ago, aledale said:

Hello, elite visa sent me a document that i can go only in that particular day. I got really mad. I paid and I'm not free to go when I want.

Anyway, is it compulsory to go with that document in that day? I'm in pattaya .

Thanks

You must of contacted Elite, and whether for extension, or the visa stamp, they made an appointment with immigration for you, maybe you had an elite rep. booked to meet with you, for your appointment with immigration, i am only guessing, from your post

2 hours ago, GAZZPA said:

Im not wound up, the comment to me was right. If I dont like the xenopobia, poor service, terrible road safety, comstant digs at "farang", government feeding the whole bad attitude towards foreigners, second class citizen despite my decent contribution to society,, etc, etc,, then I could just leave. Well thats what me and my family did, never to return,. Anyway this thread is about the lockdown, so I hope it goes smoothly this time and you all stay safe. Good luck everyone.

 

There has been a huge uptick in racism from top down from this regime, here in Bangkok, from last year, going to a bank cashier ( bangkok bank) to withdrawal,

easy go with passport, they check passport id, sometimes copy the Id,  give cash to customer, not anymore

go in now, they give you a form to fill in, saying you haven’t got the plague, aids, Wuhan virus, give phone number, go to cashier, cashier gets copy of passport Id, then thinks they are immigration, and checks visa, sometimes getting it wrong, copy’s visa page and Id then give money to customer

Thai walks in, copy of id, gets money, that’s it

that’s racism, Han Chinese style, exactly what’s going on in China and now here

2 hours ago, Pilotman said:

You have an option, you can leave and never return?  

troll alert, there has been a huge uptick in racism towards foreigners, since the gangster regime got their way, last year even more so, and now with the Wuhan virus, it’s blaming all non-Han Chinese time

Don’t worry pro-Beijing trolls, the communist control freak party of China has got your backs, in the next coming war, free societies vs communism

31 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:

When the white man showed up in Africa the white man had the bible and the black man had the land.

Wasn't long before the white man had the land and the black man had the bible!????

You are completely wrong about the Chinese financing the creation of Bangkok, this is a lie, the families at that time with great power, created the ‘Ascension Council’ a group of families connected to the Safavid empire going back centuries, the chinese became powerful, and started to emigrate to Siam/Thailand in huge numbers 150 years ago, onwards, Thonburi, then Bangkok were created well before the Chinese became influential, these are facts 

part of the $60 billion Wuhan virus help fund for local economy, was for the millions, even 10’s millions who have no jobs, less income because of the forced shutdown of the economy, all their communist Han Chinese business creeps are doing ok, many people are using the banks or the large franchise supermarkets, so giving 20 million 5000 a month is affordable, it’s $3 billion a month, $60 billion more than covers it

49 minutes ago, Redline said:

That’s pretty amazing because even A week ago I read that the strain in Italy was basically the same as in China.

good information-I will research more ????

That’s right the publicly known patient zero in Italy was a tourist from Wuhan, China, same publicly known patient zero in Thailand was a tourist from Wuhan, China, all the arrows point back to virus origin Wuhan, China, if there is one strain, two strains, or three strains, they all came from Wuhan 

3 hours ago, tonray said:

Would not work because Songkran (this year not withstanding) is a cultural event where many students are taken back to the provinces to visit relatives, pay respects to elders, etc etc. It would be like banning Red and Green Fanta bottles on the sidewalk or making Pla Ra illegal

Many of the parents around this way, have children at these international schools, and April time many have 2-3 weeks holiday, apart from family mart and 7-11, most other places in Bangkok shut down during the Songkran week

16 hours ago, gk10002000 said:

The army is not accountable to the people.  That is rarely a good thing for the people or the country in the long run

yes an army of gangsters 

Iran is opening up now, people going back to work, not 100% back to work, Italy is working out the details to open its country too, If Italy and Iran can do it in April, then the ongoing control by the men in green has other meanings

9 hours ago, JAG said:

Interesting to note that the category with by far the greatest "success rate" was employers!

 

By my (shaky) mathematics it works out, overall, as a 7% success rate.

 

Oh dear - it would be very interesting to know exactly what the criteria applied were; apart of course, as posted here already, who you are or who you know! 

 

Fat chance of that of course.

If the rate you worked it out is 7%, then that is just shocking, during a shutdown of an economy, little work for many weeks, paying 7%, monsters at work

they probably used isoc to assess the anger around, and maybe thought they could get away with distributing a lot less to those in need, as people are just still in a state of passive aggression, without the aggression erupting 

I noticed on the stock exchange this last two weeks, one of the biggest movers was CRC, central department stores and retail, that should be a slow mover, as very little retail is open until the earliest May, they are just using this as an excuse for more wealth distribution for themselves

9 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

If there is one certainty to all of this, it is that the army does not have an ethical or benevolent bone, in it's entire body. So, is this really about the "people". if they are really making this so difficult? 

That’s right, they have no human rights bones in their bodies, they announce $60 billion in helping the local economy, then claim mass testing isn’t worth it, and too expensive