Address confirmation document nowadays

[chado]

I heard there has been a crackdown on getting a documention for your address confirmation from immigration  for 500 baht, if you're a tourist. Meaning, you'll have to bring with you some additional documents from an owner of a condo where you're staying, or from a hotel. Something like that.

 

Is that the case? Or can a tourist still easily get an address confirmation document for 500 baht officially, in 1 day, as before, with no effort?

[ubonjoe]

I assume you are asking about getting a certificate of residency to get a driver's license and etc.

What is required depends upon which office you are applying at. 

[chado]

 

7 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

I assume you are asking about getting a certificate of residency to get a driver's license and etc.

What is required depends upon which office you are applying at. 

Yes

Which office -- do you mean a city it's in?

[ubonjoe]

22 minutes ago, chado said:

 

Yes

Which office -- do you mean a city it's in?

Yes or the province.

[chado]

In general. Where is it easy, where has it become hard?

[merijn]

13 hours ago, chado said:

In general. Where is it easy, where has it become hard?

You have to apply for the Proof of Residence in the city or province where you address registration is done.

You can't hop around for the easiest location to get a Proof of Residence certificate.

[Lamkyong]

500 bht wow saw you coming        i thought this document was supplied for free

[chado]

3 hours ago, merijn said:

You have to apply for the Proof of Residence in the city or province where you address registration is done.

You can't hop around for the easiest location to get a Proof of Residence certificate.

I very well can.

[Goanna]

Just yesterday, I went to Sisaket immigration with wifes house book and id copies, passport photos, and visa in passport, to get a letter of residency to renew my license. 

The bugger there just datestamped a previous acknowledgement note stapled in my passport, and signed it. Assured me that that is all I need. 

 

Well it bloody wasn't. After rrooting around at land transport office for half an hour, I was given 2 copies of a letter, which I heard need to be signed by our local orbortor. 

Well it bloody wasn't.  My wife didn't understant either. So back home 90km, and today I had a look at the letters, and work out that I had to go back to immigration with the bloody things. So tomorrow, 180km round trip for another game of human ping pong. Jai yen yen.

[CNX69]

Ask your local immigration office about Current Proof of Residency requirements. 

 

It looks like requirements change as soon as new immigration boss arrives. 

[flexomike]

3 hours ago, Goanna said:

Just yesterday, I went to Sisaket immigration with wifes house book and id copies, passport photos, and visa in passport, to get a letter of residency to renew my license. 

The bugger there just datestamped a previous acknowledgement note stapled in my passport, and signed it. Assured me that that is all I need. 

 

Well it bloody wasn't. After rrooting around at land transport office for half an hour, I was given 2 copies of a letter, which I heard need to be signed by our local orbortor. 

Well it bloody wasn't.  My wife didn't understant either. So back home 90km, and today I had a look at the letters, and work out that I had to go back to immigration with the bloody things. So tomorrow, 180km round trip for another game of human ping pong. Jai yen yen.

This is why you should get a yellow book, don't have to put up with all the bs at immigration

 

[wgdanson]

6 hours ago, chado said:

I very well can.

It'll cost you more than 500 in fuel.

[wgdanson]

1 hour ago, flexomike said:

This is why you should get a yellow book, don't have to put up with all the bs at immigration

 

Or move to Phitsanulok.

[Satcommlee]

500 Baht or come back in 28 days and it will be ready..

[GordonP]

1 hour ago, wgdanson said:

Or move to Phitsanulok.

 

2 hours ago, flexomike said:

This is why you should get a yellow book, don't have to put up with all the bs at immigration

 

Chonburi Transport Office, no longer accept Yellow Book.

[jackdd]

Last year i got one in Udon Thani for 500THB with a visa exempt, the guy who gave it to me back then is still there so it should be no problem

[Goanna]

Been down the yellow book road. The amphur people here hadn't done one before, and kept putting up roadblocks stil I gave up. Another guy here has the same problem.

[chado]

On 5/17/2018 at 9:05 AM, Lamkyong said:

500 bht wow saw you coming        i thought this document was supplied for free

it's been 500 baht for thousands of years already

[ubonjoe]

12 minutes ago, chado said:

it's been 500 baht for thousands of years already

That depends upon where you  request it. Some are free. In Bangkok it is 200 baht but you have to be making 90 day reports to them to get it.

[gkroo]

Just for the info of Nonthaburi residents I received a residency certificate from Nonthaburi Immigration this morning.

I had all the documents but also needed to provide 2 photos,total time to process was approx 20 mins and cost THB 1,000 !!! of which I questioned but was advised that this is the official charge rate at this immigration office so plse be warned when this is requested.

[Jonah Tenner]

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

That depends upon where you  request it. Some are free. In Bangkok it is 200 baht but you have to be making 90 day reports to them to get it.

Jomtien 300 Baht for each...

[Lamkyong]

2 hours ago, chado said:

it's been 500 baht for thousands of years already

sorry not correct          

[OJAS]

19 hours ago, flexomike said:

This is why you should get a yellow book, don't have to put up with all the bs at immigration

 

Can be easier said than done and entail a lot of bs in its own right if my unsuccessful attempt to obtain one several years ago is anything to go by. Our amphur insisted on my wife and me going on a wild goose-chase to Bangkok to obtain (1) proof of address from my Embassy, (2) certified Thai translation of (1), and, finally, (3) MFA endorsement of (2) - a process which took 2 whole days, the second of which was entirely spent faffing about at the MFA until we managed to come up with a certified translation which met their pernickity standards. However, when we returned to the amphur offices the following day, an eagle-eyed official there spotted that the Thai transliteration of my surname did not exactly match my wife's as stated in her ID card and refused point blank to issue me with a yellow book! At that point I simply gave up trying to obtain this hallowed book as a bad job.

[chado]

6 hours ago, Lamkyong said:

sorry not correct          

Sorry for what? Ok, you've been forgiven :)

[Lamkyong]

6 minutes ago, chado said:

Sorry for what? Ok, you've been forgiven :)

not sorry     still not correct

[KiwiKiwi]

On 5/17/2018 at 3:16 PM, Goanna said:

Just yesterday, I went to Sisaket immigration with wifes house book and id copies, passport photos, and visa in passport, to get a letter of residency to renew my license. 

The bugger there just datestamped a previous acknowledgement note stapled in my passport, and signed it. Assured me that that is all I need. 

 

Well it bloody wasn't. After rrooting around at land transport office for half an hour, I was given 2 copies of a letter, which I heard need to be signed by our local orbortor. 

Well it bloody wasn't.  My wife didn't understant either. So back home 90km, and today I had a look at the letters, and work out that I had to go back to immigration with the bloody things. So tomorrow, 180km round trip for another game of human ping pong. Jai yen yen.

Welcome to Thailand. If you can't take a joke, shouldn't have joined...

 

Seriously though, this is the fabled Thai incompetence in all of it's dubious glory. Mucking foreigners about is a rich source of self-esteem for them, sometimes I'm pretty sure they just make it up as they go along, Thais will never admit to not knowing something, they'll just hand you some BS and watch you walk away. Face is everything in Thailand.

[tebee]

On 5/17/2018 at 3:16 PM, Goanna said:

Just yesterday, I went to Sisaket immigration with wifes house book and id copies, passport photos, and visa in passport, to get a letter of residency to renew my license. 

The bugger there just datestamped a previous acknowledgement note stapled in my passport, and signed it. Assured me that that is all I need. 

 

Well it bloody wasn't. After rrooting around at land transport office for half an hour, I was given 2 copies of a letter, which I heard need to be signed by our local orbortor. 

Well it bloody wasn't.  My wife didn't understant either. So back home 90km, and today I had a look at the letters, and work out that I had to go back to immigration with the bloody things. So tomorrow, 180km round trip for another game of human ping pong. Jai yen yen.

We did it the other way round, got given a letter by Sisaket land transport office to take to immigration - they then stamped that and we took it back. 

[chado]

6 hours ago, KiwiKiwi said:

Thais will never admit to not knowing something, they'll just hand you some BS and watch you walk away. Face is everything in Thailand.

If you ask a thai about a route to somewhere he's unaware about, you'll tell you how to get there. The fact that a place may be in the opposite direction and you'll waste your time and effort doesn't matter to him.

[KiwiKiwi]

32 minutes ago, chado said:

If you ask a thai about a route to somewhere he's unaware about, you'll tell you how to get there. The fact that a place may be in the opposite direction and you'll waste your time and effort doesn't matter to him.

Indeed. Face. He'll rely on the fact that he'll never see you again anyway so why worry? The face demands of the moment will outweigh all else. I first came across this in the Emporium some years ago. I followed directions from 3 people, none of which were useful. In the end I went elsewhere but the Thai management won't worry about that - face outweighs all, they understand that and know it's too hard to correct, so they just accept it and leave it alone.

 

Something else about Thailand; the staff run the managers not the other way around. If the staff don't like the manager, the manager will go.

 

It's like through the looking glass sometimes.