Current tactics for visiting Chaengwattana

[brewsterbudgen]

As the appointment system for Work Extensions has broken down (it's permanently fully booked) and I need 3 consecutive appointments anyway, we will have to take our chances and just turn up on the day.

 

What is the recommended time to get to Immigration for the queue ticket (section N).  I've read reports of people getting there before it opens (5am?) but does that involve sitting outside for 3 hours? Not something I would want to do with my family in-tow.

 

If we get there just before it opens, presumably there is a line before you can get into the office?  How quickly does it go before you get a queue ticket?

 

Does arriving a bit later (9am) mean avoiding the lines but getting a queue ticket that means you are unlikely to be seen until much later in the day, most likely after lunch?

 

Does a queue ticket guarantee that you will be processed that day/

 

Dreading it.

 

 

[DrJack54]

For the times that I have been unable to obtain appointment (extension retirement) my plan is to arrive just prior to 12 (lunch break) 

 

Use the one hour break to attend to paperwork, any photocopying, banking etc.

To get a ticket you need show application form filled in.

The ticket will allow you to bypass que for entry after lunch.

 

With a que ticket you will be seen in the afternoon. 

[BrandonJT]

This information is over a year old, so it may have changed.  But if you arrived before the office opened you would get queue ticket, but not a queue ticket for your actual counter, it is just a ticket for entering the immigration office.  Then when the office opened they would let people in based on the queues they held, and then you can go to get your actual queue for your counter.  When I arrived about 30 minutes early I was already well past #100 to enter the office when it opened.  Obviously not all of these people are going to the same counter as you though.

Edited 2 hours ago by BrandonJT