I accept that turning 80 has resulted in a brain cell deficit. I know I've posted on here about my Immigration mess-ups before. Here's another one AND a heart-warming solution.

We've all suffered problems with 90 Day reporting, particularly those who have been here before the on-line joy.

I get angry that despite have a year's 'Visa' + a multi-re-entry permit, if I dare go on a foreign holiday, I have to report in person to Pattaya soi 5 90 days after I return. So I dutifully filled in my TM47; made copies of various passport pages; ensured my TM30 was firmly stapled and set off. I am one of the lucky ones in that I have a car and a half-hour drive gets me to Jomtien, paid my 40 baht parking fee and joined the new streamlined queue dedicated to this one (more) hoop ex-pats are forced to endure. I was crestfallen when I got to the counter to learn that I had come too EARLY by several days and told to return nearer the end of the month.

Eventually my blood pressure returned to normal, and I accepted that though I was one of 'the good guys Thailand wants IN,' it was my fault. Then I heard about Manheerat visa agency
Soi Pattaya 13/2, Pattaya City, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri 20150, Thailand. I went in the following day to find a perfect Green Heaven. The only paper involved was my TM30 + a 100 baht note. Two days later it was done & dusted; my passport was returned in a smart plastic wallet with all my salient dates/details printed on the front. On both visits I was never in the office longer than 2 minutes. There were over a dozen smiling faces eager to please.

I think back to my visits to Immigration over the years, complete with a small forest of paper copies of 'necessary data (all of it already on the Immigration computer). It's a new Green beginning - no more parking fees; no more unnecessary paper.

Hi Mike, I totally agree with you. Ten years ago I was told by a friend to go to Cambodian Intra in Soi Buakhow. From then until now I've been problem free. I first came to Thailand 25 years ago, I was living in Bangkok so I had to visit the old immigration office in Soi Suan Plu. Believe me it was chaotic. Anyway I bought a condo in Naklua so now that's my registered address which enables me to use an agent in Pattaya.