They did it again ! Pattaya immigration are playing with our nerves.

When you get a covid extention this month, they add a printed paper in your passport asking you to apply for a new extension before March 06 even when your current stamp is valid until March 28...

No way that I allow then to extend from March 06, as they will steal me almost a full month.

Anybody else got this printed paper in passport ?

 

1 minute ago, thaicookingchef said:

They did it again ! Pattaya immigration are playing with our nerves.

When you get a covid extention this month, they add a printed paper in your passport asking you to apply for a new extension before March 06 even when your current stamp is valid until March 28...

No way that I allow then to extend from March 06, as they will steal me almost a full month.

Anybody else got this printed paper in passport ?

 

 

What visa do you have? 

 

non o extended since more than a year with all different covid extensions

 

4 minutes ago, thaicookingchef said:

non o extended since more than a year with all different covid extensions

 

 

I see people with Non O visas get treated differently than those on a tourist visa. 

 

They consider the tourists to be more genuine. 

 

Those with family visas, here to stay with their families, should get extensions based on family. In their view. They don't like giving the Covid extensions to people that have a family based visa. 

46 minutes ago, thaicookingchef said:

No way that I allow then to extend from March 06, as they will steal me almost a full month.

I think immigration is not very interested in what you allow or not. My advice is that you take the advice they have been giving you and apply march 6 at latest. ????

43 minutes ago, thaicookingchef said:

non o extended since more than a year with all different covid extensions

 

 

Good grief!... you really are milking it aren't you?

1 hour ago, thaicookingchef said:

No way that I allow then to extend from March 06, as they will steal me almost a full month.

They may still give you 60 days by starting on the 28th. I think they are wanting it early so that the under consideration period will end so you will have your extension stamp done before the 30th.

Mine is return 10th March for a  21st March expiry date from Jomtien. Strange that yours is longer.

On 2/4/2021 at 9:10 PM, Wongkitlo said:

Mine is return 10th March for a  21st March expiry date from Jomtien. Strange that yours is longer.

 

Hi, do you know why they ask to go early ?

 

On 2/4/2021 at 1:15 PM, ubonjoe said:

They may still give you 60 days by starting on the 28th. I think they are wanting it early so that the under consideration period will end so you will have your extension stamp done before the 30th.

 

I think you are funny to talk as if you just landed in Thailand and knew nothing ????

But deep inside I am sure that you know that they are just trying to make more problems and do not care at all what you need and want or even are supposed to get.

If you go early at Pattaya immigration they ALWAYS stamp you from the day you go and NEVER stamp when your current visa expires. The biggest d.... in this country !

 

 

23 minutes ago, thailandbeachisland said:

But deep inside I am sure that you know that they are just trying to make more problems and do not care at all what you need and want or even are supposed to get.

If you go early at Pattaya immigration they ALWAYS stamp you from the day you go and NEVER stamp when your current visa expires. The biggest d.... in this country !

Note that wrote may in my post.

You can have any opinion you want to but that does not mean it is a fact.

14 hours ago, thailandbeachisland said:

 

Hi, do you know why they ask to go early ?

 

I think as ubonjoe has said. They want to streamline it so your under consideration period ends when your extension starts.

19 hours ago, thailandbeachisland said:

If you go early at Pattaya immigration they ALWAYS stamp you from the day you go and NEVER stamp when your current visa expires. The biggest d.... in this country !

Utter nonsense.

A friend from Jomtien always does his yearly retirement extension three to four weeks early and never looses any time.

I do at our office since years. My next extension date is 8 October. Never changed.

Hundreds of posts over the years here with the same result (also from previous "Covid extensions").

Its generally useful to apply early to avoid last minute surprises.

So your relevance to me is zero.

 

12 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Utter nonsense.

A friend from Jomtien always does his yearly retirement extension three to four weeks early and never looses any time.

I do at our office since years. My next extension date is 8 October. Never changed.

Hundreds of posts over the years here with the same result (also from previous "Covid extensions").

Its generally useful to apply early to avoid last minute surprises.

So your relevance to me is zero.

 

 

All my covid extensions in Pattaya have started from the day when I applied. So you are clearly wrong in this case.

I also checked and many posts about getting extensions in Pattaya from the day people applied and not the last day of previous visa.

what about checking your facts before talking ?

 

 

Edited February 8, 20215 yr by thcosh

3 minutes ago, thcosh said:

what about checking your facts before talking ?

I am citing the facts from my friend.

Maybe someone is wiser about Covid extension.

 

Edited February 8, 20215 yr by KhunBENQ

28 minutes ago, thcosh said:

I also checked and many posts about getting extensions in Pattaya from the day people applied and not the last day of previous visa.

This is what I am talking about, nothing else (Jomtien/Chonburi). Same/similar for me here.

If someone has stamps to show for Covid extension feel free to post.

 

Edited February 8, 20215 yr by KhunBENQ

18 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

This is what I am talking about, nothing else (Jomtien/Chonburi). Same/similar for me here.

If someone has stamps to show for Covid extension feel free to post.

 

He is talking about this. The woman at the Non O counter at Jomtien seems the type who enjoys drowning little babies. She is a real advertisement for getting a retirement visa. At the front counter they had a sign saying all extensions are from a certain date but her 60 days for visiting family began when she felt like it. The covid extension desk at counter 1 are a lot more friendly but they have introduced this new measure. Mine is for an extension ending 20th March.

I applied for the 60-day covid extension on a tourist exempt visa the last week of March, standard four trips to Jomtien, got my passport back this week with a piece of paper stapled inside that says I must apply at Chon Buri immigration before March 17th for another extension. 

 

They gave me 60 days from expiration, not from day of application, same as the last two times I went there. 

 

Are any other provinces doing this early application thing? Could it be a problem for me to apply for another 60 days in a different province either before or after March 17th? I don't mind applying early, but I don't know if I'll be in Chon Buri next month.