Retirement extension Phuket today - really fast and smooth

[phuketcouple]

- Arrival immigration 1 pm
- Got a number after 5 minutes
- Wait 10 minutes for processing by IO
- All documents accepted without any correction or questions, 800K method
- After 5 minutes fingerprint and photo
- THB 1,900 receipt
- Finished immigration visit 1:30 pm
- 2 pm at home
- Passport ready for pickup tomorrow 1 pm

New after 10 consecutive retirement extensions: After fingerprint and photo, the lady asked me if I had a photo of me in front of my house. I had one, gave it and everything ok.

 

 

[xvend]

So if you meet the requirements for your extension, there is no issue. Who would of thought?

[phuketcouple]

Oh sorry, I did not know that positive experiences with immigration are not so welcome here.

 

[DrJack54]

Just now, phuketcouple said:

Oh sorry, I did not know that positive experiences with immigration are not so welcome here.

 

Thanks for report. Any mention of tm30

[phuketcouple]

10 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Thanks for report. Any mention of tm30

Not really.
I have had residence slip in my passport since 2015. After my last entry NOV 2019, I was at HKT Immigration after about 3 days to report back to Phuket. The old date of 2018 was simply crossed out and the current one was red-stamped in.

Edited February 4, 2020 by phuketcouple

[RandG]

Wife and I have done a few annual retirement extensions in Phuket.  Always been processed quickly and without issue. 

[pipbcn]

are you talking about an retirement extension of an originally O or OA? 

[Brunolem]

I did mine yesterday in Sisaket and I must say that it went even smoother than you, since after 30 minutes of processing, I was able to go back home WITH my passport duly stamped!

 

As an aside, I was asked, for the first time, to sign a form acknowledging the sanctions incurred for overstaying...

[Thingamabob]

Always been smooth as far as I am concerned, since 1982.

[phuketcouple]

2 hours ago, pipbcn said:

are you talking about an retirement extension of an originally O or OA? 

My retirement extensions are based since 2009 on NON-O Visa.

[sniggie]

I'm pleased to read of the OP's trouble-free visa extension experience but why was he expecting anything else? For someone happy to deposit 800K baht then virtually nothing has changed. Let's see how they handle someone who is using the 65K baht per month income method and one of the transfers isn't shown as an international transfer before we start dishing out plaudits.