Lost Passport With "b" Visa And No Copy!

[glasshock]

Ok gang .... I really do need your help now!

On Thursday I returned from K/L Malaysia after getting my "B" visa.

Today I have start the process of work permit application.

Today I realise that my passport is missing!!!

Here on Thursday..... gone today .... I have a feeling I may have left in the taxi on the way back from the airport Thurs night!

Anyway........... I have no copy of the new visa!.... and I need my W/P sooner than asap!

I am from UK and know that I can replace the P/P here within 10 days or so but.......... Visa?... cost me a fortune to fly th K/L and wait for Visa stamp.... to do it all again will age me 10 years for sure!!!

Can I get a replacement visa?????.... please say yes!

Any advice will be so much appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

Mike.

Edited February 25, 2008 by glasshock

[lopburi3]

No. But once you get your new passport they should be able to reconstruct your arrival stamp and place that information into your passport. But am not at all sure that will satisfy Labor Department without the old passport/visa being available.

You have made a police report? (with luck someone may have found it). At any rate am sure this is going to be required by Embassy.

Have you searched everywhere? All pockets of clothing and bags?

[opalhort]

.... I have a feeling I may have left in the taxi on the way back from the airport Thurs night!

Mike.

If you took a taxi using the official taxi queue you should have a 'receipt' with a tel. number. call it and see if the driver found your PP.

also call the 'Lost & Found' at at the airport since you may have lost it there.

opalhort

[glasshock]

Thank you both for your help...........

Going to tell you the story now!

When I noticed it was missing my first call was to my wife....no answer....!

So .... I look everywhere EVERYWHERE!

Call my wife again.... and hear her phone ringing in the bedroom .....aarrgghhh!!... she's left it behind!

I spend the next 3 hours looking in every nook and cranny for the bloody thing.......... nothing.

Finaly I look in the bins.......100 apartments worth of rubish and the odd rat to keep me company much to the amusement of the security guards....

I leave the rubish empty handed and smelling like ...... well, a bin!!

I arrive back at the apartment to be greeted by my wife filing away the new photocopys of our passports .....just incase we loose them .. I take from your bag early today for copy.... imagine if you lost your new visa

Anyway ..........I'm just pleased today is over and once again ....... thanks for the advice!

Mike

[Maestro]

Your wife is a treasure. Many will envy you.

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Maestro

[lopburi3]

All's well that ends well.

[glasshock]

Take care all!

[torrenova]

In this day and age you should really scan all important stuff like pasports and visas and send them to a few internet based email accounts so you can at least retrieve the information wherever you are. never had to use it but I know it is there.

[ProThaiExpat]

Since the American Government paid for the immigration computers in exchange for data base access, Thai immigration has a record of all comings and goings and a reconstruction of your in and outs of Thailand can be recovered back through 2006.

I have seen such a record and it includes a picture of you and the details of your arrival in Thailand and I suspect the form of visa.

Thus as lopburi3 has stated, stamps on a lost passport can be reconstructed once the new passport is obtained and a request is made to your local immigration office.

[Captain Chaos]

In this day and age you should really scan all important stuff like pasports and visas and send them to a few internet based email accounts so you can at least retrieve the information wherever you are. never had to use it but I know it is there.

Having a back-up of some description is obviously a very good idea - not sure whether I'd want to keep all the details needed to copy my identity (non-financial admittedly) on the internet though! I keep scanned copies of my PP / visa details on the hard drive of my home PC, with a back-up on a USB drive kept locked in my office drawer (oh, and my secretary has a copy of the Singapore-relevant stuff for work permit renewals etc)

Just a thought, glad to hear all has worked out for the OP!

CC