Koh Samui Immigration - Transferring visa/extension stamps to new passport

[TerraplaneGuy]

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.

[khunPer]

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.

[TerraplaneGuy]

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?

[khunPer]

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.

[yabbra]

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

[phetphet]

 

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.

[parallaxtech]

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.

[KhunLA]

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  

[Lucky Bones]

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.🙃🙃

[NickyLouie]

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 

[TerraplaneGuy]

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.