Did The Non-O Extension Request At Chaeng Wattana 4 Weeks Ago - Where To Get The Stamp Now ?

[manutoo]

Hello,

I did my request to extend my Non-O extension (marriage based) on end of October, at Chaeng Wattana.

Now, I should go there again on November 17th to know the result (hopefully positive! ).

As it seems it's still flooded around there, anyone knows if I could go to get my stamp at Suan Plu instead..? Will they have access to my deposited file from there ?

[lopburi3]

You should be able to go there as it is the alternative location - at worst they would say yes but come back in a couple of weeks for the formal stamp at Chiang Wattana. But suspect they will be able to provide at Suan Plu.

[ljerams]

Normally the Captain who countersigns the Application documents will sign the actual extension stamp. Hence I suspect Suan Plu may reject you.

Better to ask them if you can.

[manutoo]

Thanks for the answers !

I asked my wife to phone Immigration at Chaeng Wattana and they told her I could go to Suan Plu.

Hopefully, they'll agree at Suan Plu when I'll go there tomorrow !

I'll report the result in this topic !

[Cuchulainn]

Thanks for the answers !

I asked my wife to phone Immigration at Chaeng Wattana and they told her I could go to Suan Plu.

Hopefully, they'll agree at Suan Plu when I'll go there tomorrow !

I'll report the result in this topic !

Looks like you'll be off to Chaengwattana then!!!

Seriously, best of luck!!

[frequentatore]

Thanks for the answers !

I asked my wife to phone Immigration at Chaeng Wattana and they told her I could go to Suan Plu.

Hopefully, they'll agree at Suan Plu when I'll go there tomorrow !

I'll report the result in this topic !

Lot of people at Suan Plu, go early because if they can't take care of your case, you'll need more than 2 hours to go to Chaeng Wattana (I noticed that the red buses in flooded areas are faster than the military trucks).

[manutoo]

Ok, here my report !

I arrived a couple minutes before 11.

I got a bit shocked : they changed the rooms layout since it was closed a few years ago, and the temporary room looked very small & crowded, and it looked like we had to elbow fight to get a queue ticket, but actually, I just arrived at same time than a small group of dudes following tightly its guide.

I then get my queue number, and I waited something like 3 or 4 minutes then the lady took me right away ! The 6 persons who had queued before me & were all missing may have sped up the process... (or maybe they were not missing, coz she called the numbers in Thai in a crowded & somewhat noisy place, it may have been hard to distinguish anything for people far from her)

Funnily, the lady who processed me was the same one who processed me 4 weeks ago at Chaeng Wattana, and her superior, who signed my application acceptance, was also standing a few meters behind her !

So if the rule outlined by ljerams has been enforced today, it's by going to Chaeng Wattana that I'd have been more than sorry..! The irony would have been cruel...

Anyway, after, I wanted to get a re-entry permit, so I crossed the street (like in the good old times ) to get the copy of my new stamp done ; it was 2b instead of 1 ! dam_n inflation !

I then noticed I had forgotten to take a pen, and no pen were available ; the lady checking papers for people wanting to get a queue number nicely took care of that (she brought me all the way to another room & waited there that I had filled my form ), then I got my queue number and I had just had the time to seat & see one dude getting his passport back that I was called to give mine ! I then waited a few more minutes to get it back, and voilà, I was done.

All in all, it took only about 30 minutes, and I saved about 400b of taxi & toll fee to go to Chaeng Wattana..!

Edited November 17, 2011 by manutoo

[ljerams]

At least it was worth checking. Interesting that the Captain had been moved to Suan Plu although they never told anybody that Staff had been temporarily moved. Presumably a person of higher rank signs when a particular Captain is absent due to illness?

Being normally less than 10 minutes flood free drive from Chaeng Wattana I would have made an effort to go there expecting normal service which may of course still be available.