Car licence expired in may ! options?

[007cableguy]

I've just got back from the UK and whilst away my 5 year car licence expired ,i have come back into Thailand on a double entry visa .

what are my options to renew and what i need to take other then a letter from immigration and UK licence ? 

[jackdd]

Afaik double entry (tourist?) visas are not been issued since a while, so probably you have some other kind of visa.

If you have a tourist visa you will only get a 2 year license when you renew it and you might be required to have a medical certificate (can be obtained at most clinics for 100-150THB)

Edited November 22, 2018 by jackdd

[transam]

As it's less than a year you can renew OK but only get a 2 year one as you are not on a long term O-visa..

[007cableguy]

2 hours ago, jackdd said:

Afaik double entry (tourist?) visas are not been issued since a while, so probably you have some other kind of visa.

If you have a tourist visa you will only get a 2 year license when you renew it and you might be required to have a medical certificate (can be obtained at most clinics for 100-150THB)

sorry my mistake its a 60 day tourist visa !

[Langsuan Man]

To be perfectly honest with you after the first 5 year license I have never had to show my visa for the last three renewals 

[Psimbo]

6 minutes ago, Langsuan Man said:

To be perfectly honest with you after the first 5 year license I have never had to show my visa for the last three renewals 

The visa is for the Cert of Residence issued by Immigration. You cannot get a new licence without a CoR.

[Langsuan Man]

1 minute ago, Psimbo said:

The visa is for the Cert of Residence issued by Immigration. You cannot get a new licence without a CoR.

Yes,  you need a COR for the first one but not for subsequent renewals.  The only other time I have needed a COR was to sell and purchase a vehicle 

[Psimbo]

1 minute ago, Langsuan Man said:

Yes,  you need a COR for the first one but not for subsequent renewals.  The only other time I have needed a COR was to sell and purchase a vehicle 

Not where i am, in Phuket. A CoR is required here for all renewals- I'm on my third. I also needed it when there was an anomaly on my licence that needed correcting.

[NotYourBusiness]

I tried to renew my driver license at Sa Kaeo, Aran, and Chiang Wattana. I have retirement extension, and I don't have a house book or lease. Does OP have any kind of house book or lease? Without that, I don't think it will be possible. Furthermore, as Psimbo has already stated, Certificate of Residence is required for renewal. And to get CoR at Chiang Wattana, they absolutely need to see your latest 90 day report. Believe me I waited on every que and believe me I tried, both gently and firmly. Not possible to get CoR without 90 day report. Everyone just shrugs. I don't have a 90 day report because I always cross the border before 90 days.

 

Other posts have mentioned CoR can be gotten at US Embassy for $50. Thanks, I didn't know that, but anyway I am not a US citizen. And I assume that means you need to show a lease? What if you don't have one?

 

I don't know where other posters are applying (and this info would be very helpful when posting). Not possible at SaKaeow or Aran land transport without CoR. And CoR is impossible at Chiang Wattana without 90 report. Furthermore, even with 90 day report, CoR takes one month plus a house visit by immigration for pictures if I understand the process correctly.

 

If anyone has any info to the contrary, it would be helpful to post LOCATION, your visa type, 90 report or not, CoR or not, house book/lease or not. Without this complete info, no one can know anything. I've lived in Thailand 20 years, I allocated, and spent, two weeks trying to get it done, and I could not.

Edited November 22, 2018 by NotYourBusiness

[jackdd]

41 minutes ago, NotYourBusiness said:

I allocated, and spent, two weeks trying to get it done, and I could not. 

Get your CoR + driving license renewal in a province where they don't make such a fuss. Here in Udon (probably a bit far for you, but most likely there are other "easy" provinces near you) it's quite easy, no problem to get a CoR on a tourist visa, but i don't know if it's even needed here at the DLT.

[NotYourBusiness]

Yep, that's exactly what I tried to do. At Aran immigration for CoR, they said absolutely cannot issue it if I didn't live in Aran, which I don't. Please could you elaborate what you are telling the OP to do? Go to a province where he doesn't live and get CoR? I really don't think that will work at all. Are you saying at Udon you can go with no lease, no house book, nothing except passport, and get CoR?

Edited November 22, 2018 by NotYourBusiness

[jackdd]

2 hours ago, NotYourBusiness said:

Yep, that's exactly what I tried to do. At Aran immigration for CoR, they said absolutely cannot issue it if I didn't live in Aran, which I don't.

Of course they won't issue you one if you are not "living" there. But Thai law has no definition of living (regarding us people with a temporary permit to stay Thai law doesn't even use the Thai word for "living", but for "staying"). So you can very well today be "living" in your home, tomorrow you "move" to Aran and are "living" in a hotel there, and the next day you "move" back and are "living" at your old place again.

So you go to your province of choice, go to a hotel, confirm that they will do the TM30 online and that they can print a statement that you are staying with them, then you check in there.

Then you take this statement from the hotel with you to the immigration office there, tell them that you are "living" there now and get your certificate of residence from them, then go to renew your driving license.

 

2 hours ago, NotYourBusiness said:

Are you saying at Udon you can go with no lease, no house book, nothing except passport, and get CoR?

They always want to see some kind of paper, because they really like paper.

In my case here in Udon: My GF is renting the place here with a rental contract in her name.

When i knew that i will need a CoR soon we submitted a TM30 for me after i entered Thailand, they took copies of the rental contract.

A few weeks later we went back to the immigration office to get the CoR for me. We did again present the rental contract (only her name in it) and she told them that i'm staying with her at this place, then they issued me the CoR for this address.

 

So instead of the way explained above, using a hotel, another way to do it: You go to visit a friend in another province, your friend and you go to the immigration office, he submits a TM30 for you and tells them that you are staying with him, and then you request a CoR for yourself. Your friend should bring his ID card plus either blue house book (if he owns the place) or rental contract with his name in it.

 

[NotYourBusiness]

OK thanks, great info. I would be curious if the hotel method works, and where it works. The other method, friend with a blue house book/rental contract in a "friendly" province, wouldn't work for me. I've got friends with blue books, but they are not the type to go with me to immigration, and they all are in Chiang Wattana district, which requires a receipt of 90 report (which I don't have) plus one month for house visit with pictures (in addition to the friend with blue book). As it stands now, it is still impossible for me to get a driver license on one year retirement extension.

Edited November 22, 2018 by NotYourBusiness

[Langsuan Man]

21 hours ago, NotYourBusiness said:

Other posts have mentioned CoR can be gotten at US Embassy for $50. Thanks, I didn't know that, but anyway I am not a US citizen.

Does your Embassy issue CoR ?  The US offer this but other Embassies also offer them 

[NotYourBusiness]

On 11/23/2018 at 8:33 AM, Langsuan Man said:

Does your Embassy issue CoR ?  The US offer this but other Embassies also offer them 

Excellent suggestion and I have emailed the Cambodian embassy to get an answer thanks!

[007cableguy]

Thanks for the replies,I going to Chonburi to register a car so will try there and see if easier then Regents School .


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[007cableguy]

Well had a pleasant experience for a change !,Went to Chonburi city to change my car from Bangkok to Chonburi and get new plates all done in 2 hours ! (Previously it took a couple of weeks to get new plates)
Nipped up stairs to renew my car licence ,copy passport visa,letter from immigration and old licence (No medical letter needed here )
Straight onto doing a couple of eye tests and brake test and line up the 2 poles , Ten minutes in video room then back out to pay and get licence 555 baht and all done in an hour !


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[007cableguy]

Well had a pleasant experience for a change !,Went to Chonburi city to change my car from Bangkok to Chonburi and get new plates all done in 2 hours ! (Previously it took a couple of weeks to get new plates)
Nipped up stairs to renew my car licence ,copy passport visa,letter from immigration and old licence (No medical letter needed here )
Straight onto doing a couple of eye tests and brake test and line up the 2 poles , Ten minutes in video room then back out to pay and get licence 555 baht and all done in an hour !


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[007cableguy]

Well had a pleasant experience for a change !,Went to Chonburi city to change my car from Bangkok to Chonburi and get new plates all done in 2 hours ! (Previously it took a couple of weeks to get new plates)
Nipped up stairs to renew my car licence ,copy passport visa,letter from immigration and old licence (No medical letter needed here )
Straight onto doing a couple of eye tests and brake test and line up the 2 poles , Ten minutes in video room then back out to pay and get licence 555 baht and all done in an hour !


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[007cableguy]

Almost forgot i'm on a 60 day visa and still got 5 and a half years on new licence!!????