Alien Registration Book Renewal Question

[EdtheTruth]

A quick question for you residency experts out there. I received PR last year and in order to get the red Alien Registration book I got put on my mother-in-law's tabien baan in Ubon. Despite Camerata's excellent guide, I blundered hugely and only paid for one year. (For 800 hundred baht I could have gotten 5 more years, but I forgot about it and no one mentioned it to me at the police station in Ubon.) Here's my question: I know I need to get the Alien Registration book extended, but do I have to do it before I get a new re-entry stamp in my Residency Permit? In other words, when I go in to get my stamp in my blue book, are they going to ask for my red book and see that it's expiring soon, and make me take care of the red book first? Big difference for me because I know I can't renew my work permit until I get a new stamp in my Residency Permit, so I'd love to take care of that first and worry about the red book later.

Sorry for the somewhat technical question, but you know how it is here.

Thanks,

Ed

[p_brownstone]

A quick question for you residency experts out there. I received PR last year and in order to get the red Alien Registration book I got put on my mother-in-law's tabien baan in Ubon. Despite Camerata's excellent guide, I blundered hugely and only paid for one year. (For 800 hundred baht I could have gotten 5 more years, but I forgot about it and no one mentioned it to me at the police station in Ubon.) Here's my question: I know I need to get the Alien Registration book extended, but do I have to do it before I get a new re-entry stamp in my Residency Permit? In other words, when I go in to get my stamp in my blue book, are they going to ask for my red book and see that it's expiring soon, and make me take care of the red book first? Big difference for me because I know I can't renew my work permit until I get a new stamp in my Residency Permit, so I'd love to take care of that first and worry about the red book later.

Sorry for the somewhat technical question, but you know how it is here.

Thanks,

Ed

Why do you need a "Re-entry Stamp" in your Residence Permit?

If you have Permanent Residence in Thailand you can stay here forever without having to get any other Stamps in your Residence Permit unless you decide to leave the Country for some reason - that's when you need to get a Re-entry Permit.

The "Red Book" or "Tdangdao" has to be renewed yearly (or you can get a 5 year extension) but it has nothing to do with your Residence Permit.

Patrick

[EdtheTruth]

Patrick:

What you are saying makes sense. I have a multiple re-entry stamp in my residence book now that expires in two weeks. My alien registration book also expires in two weeks. Those two documents should be totally unconnected, right? Also, I shouldn't have to get another re-entry stamp until I'm actually leaving the country, right?

This leads me to wonder about another question. I got my work permit last November. I expected it to last one year. But Sunbelt told me it could only last until my re-entry permit expired. At the time I just went along with it. But now it makes no sense. Does anyone know why my work permit was unable to run for a full year?

-Ed