RE ENTRY PERMIT POSSIBLE AT SWAMPY BEFORE AIRSIDE?

[RubbaJohnny]

Dear Fellow Travellers , if that doesn't sound too subversive!

I hope toarrive Swampy domestic on a  weekend around 530pm be handy to get re entry done early as international flight check in is a dawn

is it possible without an international exit ticket for that day please, before going airside. I recall many years ago doing it in a little room airside I think, can show them my actual booking if needed.

If it is a long schlepp out to immigration HQ office in Thung Hong Song

 

Laksi/Chaeng Wattana? North Bangkok which case  may as well do here on a day round trip?

What are their Office hours and location , departures Hall, and in Covid era is an appointment required please?

Any recent experience most welcome.

 

Happy and safe new year to all and let's hope travel may resume closer to "normal" in 2022/2565

 

 

 

 

 

[ubonjoe]

You cannot get a re-entry permit without being checked in for a international flight. The re-entry permit desk is located in immigration zone 2 after security.

The re-entry permit desk is open 24 hours a day.

Unless your extension was issued by Chaeng Wattana immigration you would not be be able to apply for a re-entry permit there.

[RubbaJohnny]

So I will need to fly back up country to the office that issued the extension?

The reason I ask I will have to take the covid fit to fly tests which if positive negates need for a re entry permit altogether.

I've pre booked test to do this in Bangkok 2 days prior.

Or is there certain to be time between check in and boarding?

Ay my age it takes me a long tome to get from Immigration to the gate , any chance my flight will leave without me if I have checked in (no baggage).

[clivebaxter]

17 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

You cannot get a re-entry permit without being checked in for a international flight. The re-entry permit desk is located in immigration zone 2 after security.

The re-entry permit desk is open 24 hours a day.

Unless your extension was issued by Chaeng Wattana immigration you would not be be able to apply for a re-entry permit there.

Thanks for mentioning that, I have never seen that info before about your extension having to be from CW Bangkok, seems odd as the airport is in Samut Prakan

[ubonjoe]

The desk at the airport does them for everybody. It does not matter where you applied for your extension.

 

You can check in for you flight well ahead of your flights departure.

You should have plenty of time to get the re-entry permit before boarding your flight.

Just pay a 200 baht service fee and they do everything for you (Photo, copies and form).

[RubbaJohnny]

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Ok thanks Joe, appreciated 

 

[DrJack54]

6 hours ago, RubbaJohnny said:

 

Never understand why folk use the reentry (hold your hand) service at BKK. Do it yourself beforehand.

Download the TM8 and attach photo and fill out.

Not difficult. 

Your process will be quick with paperwork in place. 

1000 baht single or 3800 multiple. 

 

Edited January 1, 2022 by DrJack54

[DrJoy]

On 1/1/2022 at 4:39 PM, ubonjoe said:

 

Unless your extension was issued by Chaeng Wattana immigration you would not be be able to apply for a re-entry permit there.

Joe can you share the source of this info, please?

[Maestro]

1 hour ago, DrJoy said:

Joe can you share the source of this info, please?

 

The OP was pondering the idea of getting the re-entry permit at the Chaeng Wattana immigration office in Bangkok.

On 1/1/2022 at 10:32 AM, RubbaJohnny said:

Laksi/Chaeng Wattana? North Bangkok which case  may as well do here on a day round trip?

 

Ubonjoe replied:

On 1/1/2022 at 10:39 AM, ubonjoe said:

Unless your extension was issued by Chaeng Wattana immigration you would not be be able to apply for a re-entry permit there.

 

There have been a number of posts from members whose applications for the re-entry permit were denied by an immigration office that was not the office that had issued the extension of stay. An exception is usually made when the applicant for the re-entry permit changed residence following receipt of the extension to an address in the area of the office where he applies for the re-entry permit, with the requisite notification of change of address at the time he changed residence.

 

[DrJack54]

1 hour ago, DrJoy said:

Joe can you share the source of this info, please?

I'm also interested in your question.

I always obtain my reentry permit at airport. 

I deal with CW for annual extensions. 

When I obtained a new passport and went to CW to transfer visa info and extension stamp, that was fine, however would not transfer my reentry permit as it was issued at DMK.

No problem I just traveled with both passports every month for several months.

I'm surprised to learn that unless your extension was obtained at CW, they will not provide reentry permit. Weird. 

[Maestro]

The official source regarding the competent immigration office for the issuance of the re-entry permit is most probably the Ministerial Regulation, of which I do not have a copy, mentioned in the last paragraph of Section 39 of the Immigration Act.

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In requesting permission for the re-entry, the alien shall submit an application in the form and with payment of fees in accordance with the rate and criteria as prescribed in the Ministerial Regulations.

 

[Maestro]

13 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

When I obtained a new passport and went to CW to transfer visa info and extension stamp, that was fine, however would not transfer my reentry permit as it was issued at DMK.

No problem I just traveled with both passports every month for several months.

 

As far as I know, immigration offices never transfer a re-entry permit from an old passport to a new passport, thus making it necessary for the traveller to carry both passports for the duration of the validity of the re-entry permit. The same is true for visas, which are another type of permit to enter Thailand.

 

[DrJack54]

8 minutes ago, Maestro said:

As far as I know, immigration offices never transfer a re-entry permit from an old passport to a new passport

Think your wrong.

Reentry permits can be transferred where they were issued. Visas cannot be transfered true. The visa information is noted in first pages of new pp.

My personal experience of dealing with reentry permit desk at CW backs this up.

In any event traveling with both passports is a minor inconvenience. 

They transfer extension stamp along with reentry permit. 

Edited January 2, 2022 by DrJack54

[Maestro]

In March 2021, you related your personal experience with these words:

 

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...based on my experience, when I obtained new passport CW where I obtain my annual extensions happy to transfer visa info etc but would not transfer my reentry permit...

Source: https://aseannow.com/topic/1208510-transfer-re-entry-permit-to-new-passport/?do=findComment&comment=16302086

 

[DrJack54]

9 hours ago, Maestro said:

In March 2021, you related your personal experience with these words:

 

Source: https://aseannow.com/topic/1208510-transfer-re-entry-permit-to-new-passport/?do=findComment&comment=16302086

 

That was only part of my quote.

 

At CW the counter for reentry permits pointed out that my reentry permit could not be transferred at CW and that I would need to go to DMK where the stamp was done.

In the same thread in fact next post it was confirmed that reentry permits can be transferred no issue..

Edited January 3, 2022 by DrJack54

[DrJoy]

16 hours ago, Maestro said:

In March 2021, you related your personal experience with these words:

 

Source: https://aseannow.com/topic/1208510-transfer-re-entry-permit-to-new-passport/?do=findComment&comment=16302086

 

Nonthaburi Immigration transferred my Re entry to new PP (Free)

[Maestro]

Thanks. Good to know that immigration offices do in fact transfer re-entry permits.