Would people doing their 90 day reporting at Nong Khai Immigration please fill out the form and then take a number and wait for your number to be called. If you can't understand Thai there is a computer screen behind the officers' desks.

Just in case anyone reading this was one of those rude, impatient, arrogant old gits who jumped the queue last Thursday because they 'vee only be coming here to be doing 90 day reporting, yah' you do not have the right to walk straight to an officer and expect immediate service. There were at least 3 other people patiently waiting their turn who also had to only do 90 day reporting, however they were blessed with good manners and politeness.

Next time I will tell you to join the far queue.

Next time I will tell you to join the far queue.

And so will I when I am next there.

^

Good lad. They have to be told you know, those bloody foreigners.

I do agree in principle with the OP. However it would be "nice" if there was a better way of handling the "only" 90 day report at the offices. It only takes a couple of minutes to process a 90 day report and it can take at least 30 minutes to an hour to process an extension. If the queue has a number of extensions then it is indeed quite frustrating to wait so long just for the mandatory 90 day address report. Works same in Korat by the way. But for sure, as long as this is the way it has to be done, the OP is 100 percent correct, take a number and wait your turn (or if it is busy and you have the option, try and come back another day).

I do agree in principle with the OP. However it would be "nice" if there was a better way of handling the "only" 90 day report at the offices. It only takes a couple of minutes to process a 90 day report and it can take at least 30 minutes to an hour to process an extension. If the queue has a number of extensions then it is indeed quite frustrating to wait so long just for the mandatory 90 day address report. Works same in Korat by the way. But for sure, as long as this is the way it has to be done, the OP is 100 percent correct, take a number and wait your turn (or if it is busy and you have the option, try and come back another day).

How about reporting by mail?

I do agree in principle with the OP. However it would be "nice" if there was a better way of handling the "only" 90 day report at the offices. It only takes a couple of minutes to process a 90 day report and it can take at least 30 minutes to an hour to process an extension. If the queue has a number of extensions then it is indeed quite frustrating to wait so long just for the mandatory 90 day address report. Works same in Korat by the way. But for sure, as long as this is the way it has to be done, the OP is 100 percent correct, take a number and wait your turn (or if it is busy and you have the option, try and come back another day).

How about reporting by mail?

Trouble with mail is it is paper and can get lost anywhere in the process. Painful waiting for the report to be returned to you as has been reported on the forum many times. Also, don't really know if I can report by mail to Korat or to Bangkok or what??? Indeed, several years ago I reported by mail to Bangkok (Korat hadn't opened yet) and it was always an apprehensive wait, to see if the process would complete. Oh well.

you should try the 90 day reporting at BKK !!! ...... sometimes over 100 people waiting

Here on Samui, there's we expats gets priority treatment.

On the other hand we pay 5000 baht for our extensions.

Last reporting I did took two minutes.

Edited April 9, 200917 yr by PoorSucker