I just recently moved to Roi Et. and I have been going to Amnat Charoen Immigration Office for my 90 day reports. While their they informed me that they want me to renew my visa in their office rather than in Pattaya where my last Visa was issued.

I need to know if anyone has had experience with the requirements needed for a Retirement Visa in the Amnat Charoen office? I have heard that it may be different from office to office.

I will need to renew my Visa in March of 2014 and my Passport will expire in Dec. 2014. After reading on TV about the new regulations concerning Passports, and Visa renewals. I'm assuming I will need to renew my passport now, so I can apply for a new Retirement Visa.

I will also be using my verified income from the US Embassy, rather than monies in a Thai bank account because I'm build a new house.

Any advise will be welcome,

Thanks Ryan

It only takes 10 days to get passport so you could wait until January to get your new passport. There should be an outreach here in Ubon then and you could apply for it then. Then pick it up at embassy and do your income affidavit at the same time.

I don't recall any reports of them wanting anything special for retirement extensions.

Edited September 3, 201312 yr by ubonjoe

Get a new passport. As said it only takes 10 days. Make sure that you get the letter from the embassy stating that you have been issued a new passport. On your next 9o day report take both passports with you and they will transfer the required stamps to the new passport-should be free. At that time ask then exactly what you need to give them for your next extension! Best to get the info directly from the horses mouth, unless the horse changes before your next extension then all bets are off!

Thanks everyone for your replies. It's help me figure out what steps I need to do next.

Just send the ACS an email suggesting that it's a good time to get out at least the first three months of their 2014 Outreach schedule.

Now, wonder if they'l do it....

Mac

Must be a slow morning at the ACS, got a reply already!!

Mac

We will have a schedule for the next year published at the end of September.

Best regards,

American Citizen Services Unit

U.S. Embassy Bangkok

phone: +66-2-205-4049 (from overseas)

02-205-4049 (from inside Thailand)

fax: +66-2-205-4103 (from overseas)

02-205-4103 (from inside Thailand)

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I just got my passport renewed and the extended stay transferred over. Just before they changed the rules. For the transfer I had to show them the old passport plus photo copies of last extension and the passport itself also the reentry card. When I arrived there the officer said I needed to photo copy two more pages. Not sure what all was required as the wife was doing the talking. All in all had to have 6 photo copies.

Have heard of people needing photo copies of every page in the old passport. I had added pages to my passport so the total would have been about 30 photo copies if I had to do that. Maybe letting my Thai wife do the talking made the difference.

I did it here in Chiang Mai and photo coping is not a problem there is a little photo coping business just out behind the office. took less than 5 minutes. Mind you there has been times when they were processing a lot of Burmese where their could be a half hour line up at the photo copier.

Regarding getting a new passport, and then switching a 1 year retirement visa and multiple entry permit to the new passport, can this be done in any immigration office or just in the town where one lives, (and got the original visa)?
Thanks.

It can only be at office where you got the extension unless you have moved. Then you would need to show proof of new address.

This is the US Embassy Consular Outreach page listing the dates for the last 2 years: They usually keep the same sequence and the dates stay the same within a few days +/-

http://bangkok.usembassy.gov/consular_outreach_fy2012.html

BTW Fiscal year begins OCT1

Edited September 4, 201312 yr by JLCrab

It only takes 10 days to get passport so you could wait until January to get your new passport. There should be an outreach here in Ubon then and you could apply for it then. Then pick it up at embassy and do your income affidavit at the same time. I don't recall any reports of them wanting anything special for retirement extensions.

Ubonjoe,

Do you know what the schedule is for the embassy outreach in Ubon?

Whoops! I should've looked at the complete thread before asking this question. I see above the link to my answer. Thanks anyway!

Thanks,

Doug

Edited September 4, 201312 yr by DougF