Hua Hin Immigration making it difficult to get emergency extension.

[retayl]

My wife and I (both English) visited Hua Hin IO last week and were told to get the 30 day extension we needed the letter from the British Embassy. We now have that letter and visited the IO today. The hoops that you have to jump through to get this extension are incredible. Instruction form being handed out is below. They are clearly making this up as they go along as the map requirement was added by hand as we waited there. They also want a print out of the email received from the Embassy.

We rent a house and the owner lives in Switzerland so despite having a rental agreement we cannot meet the other requirements re: ID & house book.

There appears to be no recognition that this is a worldwide crisis affecting millions of people, all the Immigration Officer repeated was “ must have all forms to send to Head Office”, sadly this is all too believable. After extensive stays for the past 10 years I doubt I’ll be back, Thailand’s tourist industry is killing itself. 

[JimmyTheMook]

That is shocking but shows why Thailand is a nothing country on the world stage and even within Asia other Asians don't regard them as much.

 

[teatime101]

10 minutes ago, retayl said:

30 day extension

What kind of visa are you on?

[NCC1701A]

they can't even make a list without forgetting something.

 

 

[GeorgeCross]

trat immigration also want to interview the house owner!!

 

[cyril sneer]

jesus

[GeorgeCross]

Quote

the Immigration Officer repeated was “ must have all forms to send to Head Office”

 

ties in with the under consideration stamps being posted

 

these requirements are coming down from on high

 

another over zealous bureaucrat ?

[tifino]

 

just tell them:  

 or at least in Quarantine...

 

[William Osborne]

Unbelievable....you would think they would be trying to keep what remaining tourists they have ?? ... as they have zero coming in for next few months.

Wonder what happens if you cant get the owner to go to IO office ?....lock you up when visa expires ? 

Edited April 1, 2020 by William Osborne

[Canuck1966]

Anybody who stays after this virus has cleared up is clearly insane 

 

AND people were talking about amnesties ????

Edited April 1, 2020 by Canuck1966

[Canuck1966]

23 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

they can't even make a list without forgetting something.

 

 

Nah, just an extra spiteful farang hating immi officer

[Canuck1966]

9 minutes ago, William Osborne said:

Unbelievable....you would think they would be trying to keep what remaining tourists they have ?? ... as they have zero coming in for next few months.

Wonder what happens if you cant get the owner to go to IO office ?....lock you up when visa expires ? 

Some lovely photo ops coming up & $$$$$$$$$$$$

They will bring in the armed fellas for such heinous crimes

[WineOh]

what else do you expect?

The have a fetish for paperwork.

I'm sure they dream of forms every night when they go to bed.

[Vigilante]

Maybe they want farangs to evacuate

Liabilities.

 

[Puchaiyank]

You can not make this stuff up!  Reads like an April Fools Joke.

 

Immigration is ruining this country for tourism and retirement.

 

There are plenty of countries with more to offer than Thailand and welcome visitors and retirees...

 

Take your tons of paperwork to the bank and see how much it is worth...before long that is all you will have left as evidence that foreigners once came and supported your economy...

 

 

[darrendsd]

The only plus point in all this rubbish is that they are not asking for proof of booked or cancelled flights as i'm sure I have read they are asking for in other threads

 

Having to take the house owner is a joke

 

Immi officer : Does this person live at the house

House Owner : Yes

 

What more could they possibly ask them than that? If you have a contract and the owners ID etc then that it is all the proof they need

 

Edited April 1, 2020 by darrendsd

[Cake Monster]

11 minutes ago, William Osborne said:

Unbelievable....you would think they would be trying to keep what remaining tourists they have ?? ... as they have zero coming in for next few months.

Wonder what happens if you cant get the owner to go to IO office ?....lock you up when visa expires ? 

The Thai Xenophobia has no boundaries now.

Dirty Farang brought the dreaded Covid19 Virus to Thailand

Well maybe we  did ( or did not ), and as Covid19 is a Global Pandemic, who really knows.

What we did bring to Thailand however, was jobs, and Industry, - and a lot of it.

[Dexlowe]

This brilliant idea from another thread. (I might add that you should wear a mask and cough a lot):

 

"If you have gone to immigration with any Covid-19 symptoms, please tell an immigration officer.  They seem totally unaware what they are forcing people to do."

[Peter Denis]

These 2 sets of requirements (post#1 - HuaHin and post #5 - Trat) for foreigners affected by the CoVid-19 situation are SHOCKING!

I hope a TVF member with 'higher-up' connections can and will bring this to the attention of the highest thai authorities.  

But if it turns out that these are indeed the requirements cooked-up at the highest IO level to enforce on tourists who unwillingly are 'trapped' in the country, then I can only conclude it is a deliberate attempt to destroy Thailand's reputation as a tourist destination. 

No matter how many 'Amazing Thailand' tourist marketing campaigns that will be launched later will repair the damage done and the negative publicity by those that were treated in this appalling way.

[GeorgeCross]

another one from richard barrow reportedly from jomtien

7.2.4 "owner must accompany.."

interesting the note at the top "Foreigners must proof that they have a place to stay for 20days"

maybe they don't want us moving about so will only extend if we can guarantee where we will be?

this is going to be a real mess if more hotels close down ????

 

Edited April 1, 2020 by GeorgeCross

[baansgr]

Yet the Phillipines have given total amnesty till end of June for tourists, no fines nothing...speaks volumes how we are thought of by Thais

[Youlike]

48 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

they can't even make a list without forgetting something.

 

 

That's also at the thai embassies in Europe....even when you check their website and bring all that's listed there they ALWAYS come up with something new so you can go home to get it..no matter how far away you live.

[Youlike]

16 minutes ago, Cake Monster said:

The Thai Xenophobia has no boundaries now.

Dirty Farang brought the dreaded Covid19 Virus to Thailand

Well maybe we  did ( or did not ), and as Covid19 is a Global Pandemic, who really knows.

What we did bring to Thailand however, was jobs, and Industry, - and a lot of it.

Better bring your business to a place like Singapore, they are miles ahead of the Thai. I hope we can move soon.

[baansgr]

55 minutes ago, JimmyTheMook said:

That is shocking but shows why Thailand is a nothing country on the world stage and even within Asia other Asians don't regard them as much.

 

I've always said that..traveling around Asia meeting other Asians and telling them I live in Thailand...some of the remarks made are unprintable...definitely viewed as.....there was a German word they used for Russians in WW2

[dimitriv]

Maybe you can book a cheap hotel for some nights?

 

Stupidity has no boundaries ...

 

 

[ParkerN]

Sad to say I agree, but the principal motivator in the psychology of a Thai is ego. Way down in the porridge that passes for a brain in Thailand, is the awareness that they are a 3rd-world country. Thais know this, and they very much do not like it so an unhealthy proportion of their lives is spent in trying to establish psychological dominance over other people, mainly foreigners, and principally Europeans, anyone in fact who hails from the land which is not a 3rd-world country or whom they suspect of feeling that they are superior to Thais when everybody knows they couldn't possibly be.

So the exercise is not to collect data, the exercise is to oblige the foreigner to jump through hoops, in the process making themselves feel powerful and omnipotent. I've been in this position many times since I arrived in Thailand 16 years ago. Yes it's irritating, yes they should have progressed as people but appear not to have done and no, I don't believe there is an alternative to just sitting down and smiling. A Thai will always support another Thai if in a conflict situation with a foreigner. There will be no help coming from that quarter however ridiculous the situation.

As already noted, sad to say, but imho irrefutable. It gives me no pleasure whatever to say it, but I like many others have fallen victim to the ego games played by many Thais, and I see no alternative explanation

 

Edited April 1, 2020 by ParkerN

[Canuck1966]

37 minutes ago, Liverpoolfan said:

what else do you expect?

The have a fetish for paperwork.

I'm sure they dream of forms every night when they go to bed.

They probably dream of farangs committing suicide

[andy72]

Malaysia the same as Philippines
no penalty for overstay during lockdown and 14 days to report to immigration for extension which brings it to June.

Thailand it appears only recognise this right for chinese tourists

& if memory serves right the first case of covid 19 was not registered in any dirty farang land.

nor was a westerner the first death

 

Edited April 1, 2020 by andy72

[emptypockets]

27 minutes ago, Youlike said:

Better bring your business to a place like Singapore, they are miles ahead of the Thai. I hope we can move soon.

There is a retirement visa in Singapore that a pensioner can access?

Didn't think so.

Edited April 1, 2020 by emptypockets

[emptypockets]

1 hour ago, cyril sneer said:

jesus

Yes?