Experience of having visa stamps into new passport at Chaeng Wattana

[Stemme]

This may have been mentioned before but if so l missed it. Recently used VFS to re-new my British Passport, very efficient, no issues and received new passport within 6 weeks.

Along with the new passport VFS gives you a letter from the British Embassy which you give to Immigration, after completing your personal details. Immigration also has a form available “Transfer Stamp to New Passport Form” I decided to complete this and take it with me. On the form it gives a list of all the documents that need photocopying and presented to the I.O. I looked at the booking appointment system and there is a heading “Transfer Visa/Cancel Visa of Business Visa” Seems reasonable and the time given was 10 minutes. So incorrectly l booked an appointment in this category. I believe the section just relates to a Business Visa.

Arrived at Immigration, 15 minutes before appointment and was told no section for transferring visa and because my visa is based on Retirement l was given a queue ticket for Section L being retirement. Having known this maybe an appointment with ‘Extension Visa for Retirement” would have been appropriate. Decided to see if there was anything else l missed so asked the girlfriend to chat with an I.O. and check if the current documentation was in order. It wasn’t, to transfer visa stamps in the new passport they want the same documentation from the bank that you would have available for a normal Extension for Retirement. I use the 800K method but unfortunately l didn’t think to bring the passbook with me. So down to Bangkok Bank and had two letters done, one confirming the current balance in the account the other being a 6 month statement showing activity (fortunately the date l last Extended the Retirement Visa was less than 6 months, otherwise l believe anything after 6 months requires more time to be available)

So armed with the letters I duly waited for my ticket number to be called and all went well. Except run out of time and now need the multi-entry visa to be stamped at another session.

[mokwit]

No mention of this new and petty rule on their website. I got caught out as have others. Wasted journey for them.

 

For me, letter and statement was not enough, needed bank Book updated on the day - so take all of those. Surprised Bangkok Bank issued letter and statement without bank book. They refused to do something for me once because I did not have bank book with me, even though it just said "passport" on the website.

 

Causing a wasted journey and lot of inconvenience to people for what? To catch someone who forgot the ATM card fee would take them below 800k? Anyone planning on renewing their extension will have the money in the bank/use an agent to bypass as they did with extension.

 

CW has gone 'Provincial'.

 

 

Edited May 22, 2023 by mokwit

[KhunBENQ]

21 minutes ago, mokwit said:

CW has gone 'Provincial'.

Can't remember I had this much fuss in the province when transferring stamps.