I went to the Immigration Department at Nakhon Sawan yesterday morning to renew my retirement extension.

I arrived at 10.50 reasonably dressed but wearing jeans as I was on my motorbike.

One of the two slightly older ladies, probably in her early thirties, asked me what I wanted.

A 90 day report and a retirement extension please.

I had done all my homework and used a ring binder with pockets for originals plus first and second copies.

The one copy I missed from my passport was the page with the arrival date stamp which she found and copied free for me. I wonder what they do if you have a new passport and the arrival date is in the old one as you didn't leave the country for xx years?

A German guy came in with his wife I think and they showed him their copy of a letter from the German Embassy confirming proof of income which took the lady from dealing with me for about 5 minutes. She apologised and I took out my book to read anyway until she was ready again.

We got a bit further and she then had to deal with a British guy for another few minutes before coming back to me again.

I gave her a copy of my letter from the CM UK Consulate confirming my pension but she wanted the original which had the embassy seal on it.

She finished with that lot, did the 90 day report and stamped my extension until 23 Aug 2012.

I paid the 1,900 baht and that was it all over.

I walked out of the door about 11.25.

I must say that the lady spoke fair English, didn't seem to mind my broken Thai and was very helpful.

Is there anywhere in the Central Immigration Office that I can email a letter of thanks for the excellent service that I received?

Edited July 27, 201114 yr by billd766

The arrival stamp is transferred into your new passport as the first entry. So you can just copy from there.

The last time I was in there, they lost my passport, but I pointed to the photcopier and sure enough the world was well and I knew as we were all smiling that I was onto a winner! The staff there are very good, they did have when I was there a form for you to fill in asking for your views on the service at Nakhon Sawan, that might be your best bet, get one, fill it in and give to the person in charge to make sure the right person gets the recogniton. I am not sure emails get dealt with. might be easier to delete, just makes work for someone if you get my drift, but am all for acknowledging good service so good luck.

The arrival stamp is transferred into your new passport as the first entry. So you can just copy from there.

Thank you for that though I still have almost 3 years to go yet.

The last time I was in there, they lost my passport, but I pointed to the photocopier and sure enough the world was well and I knew as we were all smiling that I was onto a winner! The staff there are very good, they did have when I was there a form for you to fill in asking for your views on the service at Nakhon Sawan, that might be your best bet, get one, fill it in and give to the person in charge to make sure the right person gets the recognition. I am not sure emails get dealt with. might be easier to delete, just makes work for someone if you get my drift, but am all for acknowledging good service so good luck.

It is not too big an office for it to get really lost in.

I will call in there the next time I am down that way and see what they have for commenting.