Has anyone done this recently?   I'm on a retirement extension of stay (based on a non-OA visa) and need the stamps, including multiple re-entry permit, transferred to my new passport.

 

A few questions:

 

1. Is it a same-day, walk-in procedure, or do you have to leave your passport and pick it up another day/week?

2. Any special form to fill out?

3. Apart from old and new passports, any other documents needed?  I hear that at Chaeng Wattana (Bangkok) they now require you to update and copy your bank book for this purpose.

For up-to-date info it might be best to ask at the registration on the ground floor.

 

It is almost 9 years since I did a visa stamp transfer – soon due again later this year – nothing was needed apart from old and new passports. If your embassy supply a letter with the new passport then that shall also be handed over. I was charged a fee of 500 baht – Okay for me – but some people states that there is no official fee for that service; I however won't ague with Samui Immigration about a relative small fee.

6 hours ago, khunPer said:

For up-to-date info it might be best to ask at the registration on the ground floor.

 

It is almost 9 years since I did a visa stamp transfer – soon due again later this year – nothing was needed apart from old and new passports. If your embassy supply a letter with the new passport then that shall also be handed over. I was charged a fee of 500 baht – Okay for me – but some people states that there is no official fee for that service; I however won't ague with Samui Immigration about a relative small fee.

Do you recall whether  you got it done same day or had to come back the following week for pickup?

16 hours ago, TerraplaneGuy said:

Do you recall whether  you got it done same day or had to come back the following week for pickup?

No – but probably – it's almost 9 years ago, and by that time we still got extension of stay back same day after waiting a while. So, what they did 9 years ago doesn't really matter much today.

Here's a report from someone who did it in July last year.

 

TIP:

Once you get all the stamps changed to new passport. Before leaving Immigration, check your current stamps and Multiple Re-Entry Permit if you have one. Make sure that the IO has copied over the hand written parts too. Including correct dates.

 

I got pulled aside on arrival at Suvarnabhumi, and taken to an office where I had a forty minute wait because hand written details were missing from one of my stamps. Wasn't a big problem, but I was delayed and once home, had to return to samui IO to get it sorted.

 

Luckily I had plenty of time to make my connecting flight from BKK.

On 5/25/2025 at 4:16 AM, khunPer said:

For up-to-date info it might be best to ask at the registration on the ground floor.

 

It is almost 9 years since I did a visa stamp transfer – soon due again later this year – nothing was needed apart from old and new passports. If your embassy supply a letter with the new passport then that shall also be handed over. I was charged a fee of 500 baht – Okay for me – but some people states that there is no official fee for that service; I however won't ague with Samui Immigration about a relative small fee.

The fat girl charged me 1500 baht in 2020, so let me know what you get charged.

1 hour ago, parallaxtech said:

The fat girl charged me 1500 baht in 2020, so let me know what you get charged.

Whoa, Hua Hin is looking good now, only 500 baht  

Yes and No to all questions. It depends on the IO's frame of mind, whether said IO is hungry, the time of day & bulge in your back pocket.🙃🙃

1 hour ago, parallaxtech said:

The fat girl charged me 1500 baht in 2020, so let me know what you get charged.

 

It's a free service , Samui is trash 

22 hours ago, NickyLouie said:

 

It's a free service , Samui is trash 

OP update:  I went this week and although the office was almost empty (about 8 expats, as it's low season) and plenty of staff, the officer told me it would take a week!  I could not stay in Samui that long, had flown down just to get stamps transferred.  I begged him repeatedly to get it same day, said it was an emergency, and finally he agreed I could pick up the next day (not same day although I was there before it opened).  He made it clear he was angry.  "You force us to work until midnight!!".   As if it takes hours to transfer a couple of stamps lol.   But there was NO charge.

I got my visa-, entry- and retirement extension-stamps moved from old to new passport today; i.e., I picked up my new passport at Samui Immigration today.

 

I needed to fill in a form on gthe ground floor, which I had to queue up to get from the counter, and then back in queue-line to show form and signed photocopies of name-page and all stamped pages in old passport, together with copy of the new passport's name-page and original letter from my country's embassy in Bangkok – I don't think the affidavit is a demand any more – whereafter I got a queue-number and went upstairs, where my number was called immediately, and passports and photo copies given to a man at the counter. This was done 10 days ago; so, that's about how long time you shall expect that kind of service to take.

 

The great news is that they didn't charge a single baht, nor satang, for the service; last time, 9 years ago, I paid 500 baht...👍

13 hours ago, khunPer said:

I got my visa-, entry- and retirement extension-stamps moved from old to new passport today; i.e., I picked up my new passport at Samui Immigration today.

 

I needed to fill in a form on gthe ground floor, which I had to queue up to get from the counter, and then back in queue-line to show form and signed photocopies of name-page and all stamped pages in old passport, together with copy of the new passport's name-page and original letter from my country's embassy in Bangkok – I don't think the affidavit is a demand any more – whereafter I got a queue-number and went upstairs, where my number was called immediately, and passports and photo copies given to a man at the counter. This was done 10 days ago; so, that's about how long time you shall expect that kind of service to take.

 

The great news is that they didn't charge a single baht, nor satang, for the service; last time, 9 years ago, I paid 500 baht...👍

When I went a couple of months ago (see above) I didn't have a letter or affidavit from my embassy and wasn't asked for one.  But as I recounted above, I had to beg to get next-day pickup because they said it would take a week.  I just can't understand why something so straightforward takes so long.