Thai Foreign Ministry: Passports to be issued in downtown Bangkok

[webfact]

RALLY
Passports to be issued in downtown Bangkok

BANGKOK: -- A temporary mobile office at Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre is being set up from Monday to issue passports, Foreign Ministry announced Thursday.

The office will have the capacity to issue 600 passports a day.

The mobile office has become necessary as anti-government protesters led by a senior monk continue to block a site near the Government Complex, which is adjacent to the Consular Department on Chaeng Wattana Road.

The department is the main venue for issuing passports. The ministry has been forced to shut down computer servers for online passport issuance since January 13. The closing of the department and absence of servers has resulted in influx of people to passport offices at Pinklao and Bangna.

In the latest development, the monk on Wednesday agreed that officials could re-boot the servers this weekend.


-- The Nation 2014-02-06

[impulse]

As an alternative, you can always go to Kao San Road, where there is a much wider selection of countries to choose passports from.

Edit: And, as an added bonus, you can get a Driver's License and a Ph.D. to match your brand new passport.

Edited February 6, 2014 by impulse

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As an alternative, you can always go to Kao San Road, where there is a much wider selection of countries to choose passports from.

Edit: And, as an added bonus, you can get a Driver's License and a Ph.D. to match your brand new passport.

Thanks for the heads up

[rubl]

Marvelous chaps at the MoFA, very resourceful. 1-1/2 year ago they even managed to issue a passport from flooded offices, imagine

[fab4]

Marvelous chaps at the MoFA, very resourceful. 1-1/2 year ago they even managed to issue a passport from flooded offices, imagine

I just knew you wouldn't resist. About time for another grenade story isn't it?

[Suriya4]

QSNCC is just a stone throw from the protest sites.

It is time for Suthep et al to pay them a visit tomorrow.

[northernjohn]

Marvelous chaps at the MoFA, very resourceful. 1-1/2 year ago they even managed to issue a passport from flooded offices, imagine

I just knew you wouldn't resist. About time for another grenade story isn't it?

I believe that is one of the slogans in the red shirt bar's.

Any time is a good time for a grenade.

You got to admit they are over due with the delivery been a couple of days now. Not like the good old days when Thaksin paid their wages and fed them.

Can't figure out why Yingluck didn't just ask her brother for protection instead of trying to go around legal channels and get some from the Army. Is she afraid of the red shirts the anti government protestors are peaceful. All they wasn't is an honest government.

Serious question.

Can any one tell me why Yingluck doesn't want one?

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Just in case any one has forgotten she has created a commission to stop corruption. In the last year under it corruption has risen. Any one hear of a plan from her to stop it. So you can see why I say why doesn't she want an honest government. Suthep has put forth a plan might not be popular with her but it is better than her give me 6 months. Or having her brother call into cabinet meetings when it interferes with her world traveling.

Edited February 6, 2014 by northernjohn

[fab4]

Marvelous chaps at the MoFA, very resourceful. 1-1/2 year ago they even managed to issue a passport from flooded offices, imagine

I just knew you wouldn't resist. About time for another grenade story isn't it?

I believe that is one of the slogans in the red shirt bar's.

Any time is a good time for a grenade.

You got to admit they are over due with the delivery been a couple of days now. Not like the good old days when Thaksin paid their wages and fed them.

Can't figure out why Yingluck didn't just ask her brother for protection instead of trying to go around legal channels and get some from the Army. Is she afraid of the red shirts the anti government protestors are peaceful. All they wasn't is an honest government.

Serious question.

Can any one tell me why Yingluck doesn't want one?

edit

Just in case any one has forgotten she has created a commission to stop corruption. In the last year under it corruption has risen. Any one hear of a plan from her to stop it. So you can see why I say why doesn't she want an honest government. Suthep has put forth a plan might not be popular with her but it is better than her give me 6 months. Or having her brother call into cabinet meetings when it interferes with her world traveling.

Yeah

[surangw]

good announcement , now the protesters will know where to attack next.

[webfact]

FOREIGN MINISTRY
Passport issuance service to resume next week
THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- THE FOREIGN MINISTRY'S passport division will today reboot its computer server for online passport issuance. The server had to be shutdown for security reasons on January 13 after anti-government protesters took over the Government Complex.

The suspension of the server and the service at the Passport Office headquarters inside the Consular Department on Chaeng Wattana Road has resulted in an influx of people at the branch offices in Pinklao and Bang Na areas as well as to those in Chiang Mai, Phuket and Songkhla. Prior to the protests, 18 branch offices were able to issue passports and applicants only had to wait three days for a new passport. Now, however, applicants are having to wait 10 to 12 days.

In addition, only a specific number of passports can be issued daily at branch offices. For instance, the Bang Na office can only issue 1,750 passports per day, Pinklao 1,300 and Chiang Mai 200.

The shutdown has also badly affected the issuing of passports both in Thailand and overseas, as Thais have not been able to renew their passports through Thai embassies.

Once the rebooting and testing of the server is completed on Sunday as scheduled, the office's passport-issuing capacity should return to almost normal, about 7,000 passports a day, compared to 3,650 during the shutdown.

Since the anti-government protesters set up camp on the road outside the Government Complex and put up a stage right in front of the department, the ministry was forced to close down the service.

The ministry said that as soon as the server goes back into full operation, people can submit their passport applications at any branch of the Passport Office, with the exception of the Consular Department, the Labour Ministry as well as branches in Surat Thani and Phuket.

The move follows talks on Wednesday between the ministry's senior officials and Luang Pu Putta Issara, a senior monk leading the Chaeng Wattana rally.

In response to a backlog of applications, the division will set up a temporary mobile office at Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre from Monday onward, where it will be able to issue up to 600 passports a day.

Meanwhile, at the Bang Na branch, hundreds of applicants were seen queuing up for hours to just get queue tickets - a problem that some used as a business opportunity, offering to queue up in exchange for money. But the ministry quashed this by insisting that everybody in the queue show their identity card before they can get a ticket.

In Chiang Mai, many people ended up having to camp outside the City Hall overnight so as to be among the first few to apply when the office opened in the morning. Some people said they had been waiting for four days.

Passport applicant Anchana Tangsathaporn said she saw people quarrelling over places in the queue on Monday and Tuesday, so she returned home. Upon returning on Wednesday, she learned that more than 200 people had been queuing for their turn since 2am.

"The remaining 180 of use decided to set up queue numbers among ourselves, with the first 20 reserved for monks. We met up again at 8pm to check names, continued checking names to avoid any absenteeism or jumping of queues. This was so everybody could apply the following morning," she explained.

The queues yesterday and today were full and will probably remain this way until Monday.


-- The Nation 2014-02-07

[Chao Lao Beach]

We were there at 4am and #700 in the que. If you arrived at 7am, it would be to late.

It was like a zoo

[user82374298374]

'In the latest development, the monk on Wednesday agreed that officials could re-boot the servers this weekend.'

You just can't make this stuff up.

[rubl]

Marvelous chaps at the MoFA, very resourceful. 1-1/2 year ago they even managed to issue a passport from flooded offices, imagine

I just knew you wouldn't resist. About time for another grenade story isn't it?

Why would I bring up grenades? That would be totally off topic.

Here we just praise those wonderful government people at the MoFA who are resourceful if anything. Of course it may be that caretaker MoFA Surapong helped. He has more time now that he is only former head CAPO

ADD: by special request only:

"M-79 grenades fired at Chaeng Wattana protest site, no injuries reported"

Edited February 7, 2014 by rubl

[Chao Lao Beach]

'In the latest development, the monk on Wednesday agreed that officials could re-boot the servers this weekend.'

You just can't make this stuff up.

I agree, really Bizarre.

Now they are even trying to stop Thais that are pissed of with Thailand getting out. I spose they spend money in Thailand when here

This MONK, <deleted> ?

[GMajor]

We were there at 4am and #700 in the que. If you arrived at 7am, it would be to late.

It was like a zoo

Arrived Bangna at 10hr30 Tuesday and #1720 in queue. Biometrics done by 19hr00. No fast track to get the passport made in 3 days (as still posted on the Foreign Ministry web site), tea money not accepted either.

Hundreds patiently waiting in perfect order, laying or sitting where they could. Very quiet crowd, with people softly talking to each other to kill time

All in all, the 2hr30 return trip to Pattaya on a crowded van, doing some hundred stops on Rd. 3, was a lot more harassing indeed.

I cross my fingers the 10-12 days wait is not further delayed by some post office issue due to the never ending protests... but by now I know that I'm a lucky bastard

Edited February 7, 2014 by GMajor

[cracker1]

Is it possible to download an application form from the internet and post the relevant documents for a PASSPORT RENEWAL ?

[ubonjoe]

Is it possible to download an application form from the internet and post the relevant documents for a PASSPORT RENEWAL ?

The requirements in English are here on MFA website. http://www.mfa.go.th/main/en/services/1415/21479-Requirements-for-the-Ordinary-e-Passports-Applicat.html

In Thai info here: http://www.mfa.go.th/main/en/services/16263-Thai-Passport.html

I have not found any downloads on the English side of website perhaps is possible in Thai.

[arfandy]

Dear ALL,

I'm an Indonesian and my wife is Thai. Recently we just had our first newborn in Bangkok. It took us nearly 2 weeks for the hospital to issue Thai birth certificate due to current Bangkok Shutdown. After that, i HAD to use an agency to deal with English Translation + legalization by MFA (took only 3 working days and sent via EMS)... which i came to believe that doing so myself would probably take weeks & few travelling attempts to get queue number in Central Bangna.

Since i live close to passport office nearby Pinklao, question is: how is the queue in that Pinklao office? The passport is for my 3 weeks old daughter, whom we might need to travel back to Indonesia soon. All documents are ready, except no queue number just yet. I am thinking to use some agency to help get the passport done soon. Any advices which trustworthy agency should i use? (websites, addresses, phone number, emails, are very much appreciated). Of course, shall the queue in Pinklao back to normal (like 3-4 months ago), then i guess we wouldn't need to use agency services.

Thank you.

[1000baht]

What is the phone # for passport office , or if anybody here could tell me how much for adult passport, the wife needs one. Thanks

[Yid Army]

Passport Office - Central Bangna

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