Retirement Extension

[WilliamIV]

Hi

Did my 11th Extension for Retirement at Suan Phlu Today.

First I must explain that as usual ...

last week I faxed requests to the British Embassy

and my Bank at Chong Nonsi

to have the necessary Letters ready for me to collect today.

OK - I set the alarm for 8am (NO - I do NOT believe in getting to Suan Phlu at dawn)

9.00am - left home in Bangkapi by Taxi to MRT Soon Wattanatham.

changed to Sky Train at Asok to Ploenchit

9.55am Arrived British Embassy to collect their Letter(Bht1980)

Sky Train from Ploenchit to Chong Nonsi

10.45am Collect Letter from Bank (Bht100)

Taxi to Suan Phlu

11.20 get Queue number - 14 persons waiting ahead of me.

11.45am called to go to Officer.

11.55am FINISHED

The 10 mins was mainly taken up waiting for the Cashier to accept the Bht1,900

and to issue the receipt.

Within a couple of minurtes the Officer finished checking my papers and asked for the money.

There was no wait while my previous File was found.

Really efficient Service

Bill

[longball53098]

Great ! All extensions for retirement should be that smooth.

[lopburi3]

That's what we like to hear. I felt they were calling numbers much faster yesterday when I was waiting for a stamp transfer than the previous two years but had nothing to judge it against as was not in the extension queue.

[opalhort]

Do they have now different queue numbers for retirement extensions?

In the past it was 8xx for business and 9xx for other (Thai wife/ retirement)

opalhort

[TaoNow]

Question for WilliamIV: You said you got the embassy letter *and* a bank letter. I presume the embassy letter was an affadavit about the amount of your pension income being over 65K baht/mo equivalent -- correct? If so, then what was the letter from the bank for? What I'm interested in is, if you used the pension income method, has Immo ever looked at your bank book for evidence of transfers into your Thai account from abroad (as indirect evidence of the pension)? If so, what amounts of transfers are they looking for?

Thanks for your trip report anyway. I too have experienced prompt, hassle-free service at Suan Plu this year and last.