I am slowly recovering from food borne disease and my extension of stay for marriage pickup date was today.

 

So yesterday I asked the wife if should could try to call Immigration to check if my file had actually come back, and if she could bring my passport for stamps without me to enter the stamps. The answer was a friendly yes, yes. The whole extension of stay process, last year and this year has been like 60 to 90 minutes to prepare the file and another hour to enter stamps and 90 days report. BTW Buriram reset the 90 days counter to the day the give you the final stamp. All this happens in a good humoured atmosphere in and office that has a growing workload.

 

This is the bad news, we are near the border and local business are more and more hire cambodian workers. One of my wife's friends, a cute sey girl, runs a waste processing business, employs about 50 staff, the majority of which are cambodians, she has become something like a permanent fixture at Buriram IO.

 

So, lets hope its things don't take a turn for the worse there and that Buriram IO can keep up the good work with well deserved additional staff.

 

32 minutes ago, KiChakayan said:

So, lets hope its things don't take a turn for the worse there and that Buriram IO can keep up the good work with well deserved additional staff.

Good work??? They do under the table extensions there for 40,000 Baht. I'd sack the lot of them. The growing workload is due to them not doing 90 day reporting online. Nothing more, nothing less. Flip Flops through the door means money. Online reporting brings nothing.

Edited March 6, 20188 yr by Rally123

38 minutes ago, Rally123 said:

Good work??? They do under the table extensions there for 40,000 Baht. I'd sack the lot of them. The growing workload is due to them not doing 90 day reporting online. Nothing more, nothing less. Flip Flops through the door means money. Online reporting brings nothing.

The lack of online 90 days report isn't a Buriram I.O issue, it affects all offices under Korat.

 

So, you have paid 40000 ??? And why on earth would someone need an under the table extension?

Edited March 6, 20188 yr by KiChakayan

5 minutes ago, KiChakayan said:

The lack of online 90 days report isn't a Buriram I.O issue, it affects all offices under Korat.

Not all of them. Just Surin and Buriram as far as I know.

1 hour ago, KiChakayan said:

So, you have paid 40000 ??? And why on earth would someone need an under the table extension?

I certainly have not, and never will pay for an extension that isn't legit. But I know some who have. The reason why some expats pay for an 'under the table' extension is because they do not have the financial requirements to obtain a genuine extension. That therefore shows how hypocritical immigration officers are when harassing genuine expats who make a genuine mistake when visiting their office.

Edited March 6, 20188 yr by Rally123

1 hour ago, Rally123 said:

I certainly have not, and never will pay for an extension that isn't legit. But I know some who have. The reason why some expats pay for an 'under the table' extension is because they do not have the financial requirements to obtain a genuine extension. That therefore shows how hypocritical immigration officers are when harassing genuine expats who make a genuine mistake when visiting their office.

Again, not my experience. I had been a bit sloppy when I prepared my first extension application. There were three problems: the photos, no transaction at the date of the bank letter, and my marriage under my Australian nationality (My visa being in my French passport). They did everything they could to spare us another trip. For the photos they went through my wife's facebook and told us which one to get printed across the road. For the bank we were lucky as we could get a new letter matching a new entry in my book, across the road too. For the Australian nationality I had had the foresight to bring my Australian passport, of which they just took an extra copy. Later at home they phoned at home; the Kap Choeng bank had missed to copy one page of my book, he was quite happy when my wife told him we could either fax or or email it "now".

 

But it is probably true that we must must be extremely thorough when we do our paperwork. 

 

And I don't think we should repeat rumours when it comes to corruption issues. I wouldn't even talk about cases where I may be directly involved, it is one of those things, like sex, you may have, or not, but you don't talk about and don't want to hear about. If you are Thai.

From your post above it appears you didn't use the Buriram office but Kap Choeng

 

 

17 minutes ago, KiChakayan said:

And I don't think we should repeat rumours when it comes to corruption issues

These are not rumours. 

11 minutes ago, Rally123 said:

From your post above it appears you didn't use the Buriram office but Kap Choeng

There was no Buriram office 3 years ago.. The transfer occurred in October 2015.

11 minutes ago, KiChakayan said:

There was no Buriram office 3 years ago.. The transfer occurred in October 2015.

I'm sorry, I'm lost.

39 minutes ago, Rally123 said:

I'm sorry, I'm lost.

Ok, my bad.

I my OP I was referring to this year's (my third) extension, which I got from Buriram.

My first extension (2015), the sloppy one, I got from Kap Choeng, which later that year got split, the other half becoming the Buriram Office, mostly staffed by new officers to be true.

Several baiting and bickering posts have been removed. Time to end it.

It is remarkable that just giving an objective, factual, positive appreciation of an Immigration office can degenerate in a shouting match... 

I have always found Buriram Immigration to be pleasant and efficient although we only do TM30's and 28's.