Report on retirement extension renewal at Khon Kaen office. (Success!)

[lungbing]

We arrived at Khon Kaen immigration office at bus station #3 at 12.45 having been to my Kasikorn bank in the morning for the letter and year's statement.
 An IO sat just inside the door and gave a curory check to my papers  before handing over my ticket number 018. The place was empty.  Number 017 was already showing so when the officers started work at 1pm
I was first up. 
She checked my forms then a quick look at the bank statements but by no means all transfers.  Then checked the closing balance in the full bank book agreed with the opening balance in the new bank book.  Then she stopped, picked up all the paperwork and went to the back.  She came back and asked where my money comes from.  Now my feeling is that so long as more than 65,000 is transferred every month, where it comes from is none of their business. But I have lived here a long time and had with me copies of the yearly
statements from my government and private pensions.  She was happy with this.

Then she pointed out my TM30 was out of date.  What???  It was dated Nov. 2018 and I have not left the country since that date.  To keep her happy I collected a form and when I was sent out to copy the receipt for my 1900 baht fee my wife and I updated the TM30, there's a little window near the xerox.  Back in.
The IO stapled all three receipts, the 1,900 baht, the TM30 receipt I signed and the TM30 my wife signed all in my passport to join the 90 day and landing form already there.  I asked the IO when they were moving to the new office. "Next year", she said. Then wais all round and we were back home for 2pm.

My advice is to take everything with you but offer the minimum and see what else they ask for.

[PeachCH]

Why all this fuss with documents, visiting immigration, waiting... Hand over your passeport to an immigration agent and your visa / extension is done. ????????

But congratulations to your visa extension ????

[OJAS]

Presumably the absence of any reference to the mandatory health insurance requirement means that your original non-immigrant visa was of the "O" variety?

 

[hotandsticky]

You can throw the TM6 away.

 

 

COYR!

[ubonjoe]

19 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

You can throw the TM6 away.

I would not suggest doing that. Immigration will still want one if you entered the country prior to July 1st.

[foreverlomsak]

13 hours ago, lungbing said:

My advice is to take everything with you but offer the minimum and see what else they ask for.

my previous experience shows you'll still be missing something, don't understand TM30 being out of date and having to copy 1,900 B receipt, did she keep the original.

[foreverlomsak]

23 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

You can throw the TM6 away.

The newspaper reports indicated that this was only a temporary suspension for people arriving by air, if arriving by land they are still required.

[lungbing]

I qualify under their rules, so why would I need an agent?

 

Sorry, yes, non-immigrant 'O', retirement.

 

I try not to throw any paperwork away and there's a filing cabinet in our bedroom to prove it.  But COYR indeed.

 

The IO keeps the copy of the receipt and attaches it to the res of your paperwork, the original blue flimsy is now stapled in my passport.  That's a first.

 

I suspect the TM30 claim was so the IO found something.  As I said, it was dated  Nov 2018 and I haven't left the country nor moved address since then.

[tahaan]

Similar experience to my first visit to Khon Kaen in August. I arrived around 11:00 having collected the  bank letter to support a retirement extension. Seen straight away by an IO but was sent out twice to photocopy forms including the 1,900 B receipt. I was out in under 30 mins.

 

 Kasikorn took longer to update my book and produce a letter. 

 

 

[fceligoj]

Same as lungbing.  Went in at 1315, 2 officers were just finishing up with their "clients".  I was doing three things, retirement extension, re-entry permit app'n and my 90-day report, so I was next up.  My TM30 was from December of 2018, but there was no issue.  I always provide copies of letters from my several pension providers (SSA and company).  Since I was using the 65K method, had copy of bank book with the 100-baht deposit on the same date, the 1-year bank statement, and the bank letter.  I also provide a copy of my yellow book.  The forms immigration wants you to sign were provided for my signature, no filling in the blanks.  Done and gone in about 30 minutes.