Glitch: Transferring MultiRe-Entry, Old PP to New

[dddave]

Never have seen this technicality mentioned here before.

 

Short version:    If your Multi Re-Entry permit is issued at an airport and not an Immigration office and you need to transfer it to a new passport, it must be done at the airport where the original was issued; not at Immigration.

 

Longer version:  Last March, when I completed renewing my Retirement Extension, the line to renew my multi re-entry permit was several hours long so I elected to get a new one at Survanabhumi Airport when I departed Thailand in April, a 20 minute process.

 

Now back in Thailand. My US passport was nearly full so I replaced it and picked the new one this AM.  I then went to Chang Wattana to transfer the stamps.  About a two hour wait at section L, then 3 different desks.  Things seemed to be completed when the officer said "Problem with Multi Entry...have to go section C-2"

I went to C-2, the Re-Entry permit section...again, a 2 hour line.  I confess I played the age card (over 70) and got an agent.  She explained that the Multi Re-Entry permit can only be transferred, old passport to new,  at the place of issue, not Chang Wattana.  As I said, I have never heard of this before.

Next time I exit Thailand at BKK, I will have to bring both old and new passports and stop at the re-entry section.  I wonder if they will insist on a new (B200) photo.

[ubonjoe]

That is normal procedure. 

You can get the re-entry permit transferred before you go through security at the airport immigration office. It is at one of levels between arrival and departure.

They will not want another photo.

If you don't get it done you can show it in your old passport when you enter the country and be stamped into the country in your new passport.

[elviajero]

You don’t need to have the re-entry permit transferred. Just show both passports entering until the permit expires.

[dddave]

56 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

That is normal procedure. 

You can get the re-entry permit transferred before you go through security at the airport immigration office. It is at one of levels between arrival and departure.

They will not want another photo.

If you don't get it done you can show it in your old passport when you enter the country and be stamped into the country in your new passport.

So, it needs to be done at Immigration, before passing through security and not at the Re-Entry section next to Passport Control?  Good to know.

Does one still need an active international boarding pass, doing it at Immigration office?

[ubonjoe]

24 minutes ago, dddave said:

So, it needs to be done at Immigration, before passing through security and not at the Re-Entry section next to Passport Control?  Good to know.

Does one still need an active international boarding pass, doing it at Immigration office?

Their is an office that can do it prior to security.

No need for the boarding pass.