Multiple Re-Entry Permit Issued @ Suvarnabhumi?

[NavaJauvana]

I have heard and seen Re-entry permits issued at Suvarnabhumi airport. But i have never tried to get one there before.

I have an annual extension on a Retirement Visa for Thailand. Usually i get a multiple entry Re-Entry Permit when i get the annual extension.
This year, thinking i would be "smart" and save some baht, i got only a Single entry Re-Entry Permit, and i have already used it.

Now i need to travel again, one or two more times outside Thailand, before my annual extension due date.

So i will need to get a multiple entry Re-Entry Permit after all.

My question is: Can i go to the airport, without a ticket for any flight, and get in the cue near Immigration, to receive a multiple Re-Entry Permit?

Or do i need an outgoing ticket for them to issue me a Re-Entry Permit at the airport?
No speculators, please. Only people who have had real experience at the airport in a similar situation.

Otherwise, i can go to Chaeng Wattana to get the Permit. Chaeng Wattana is open again, right?

[bazmlb]

There is re-entry permit desk open 24 hours a day.

It is located just after the south departure immigration area.

They charge the extra 200 baht because they do the form, photo and copies for you.

[davejones23]

If you only need to travel one or two times, then one or two single-entry permits would be cheaper.

[IMA_FARANG]

Not quite.

Only one small hitch in your planning.

You can get it there but , as far as I understand it, only AFTER you check-in.

That is because the desk is in the departure immigration area and you will need departure documents to enter there.

Now I admit I have never got one there...... it's always been at Chaengwattana. So I can't verify this.

But it has been said before on this forum that you have to co into the departure immigration to get a exit re'rentry permit.

In other words your idea of going there without a ticket is a non-worker.

Now you could take a weekend trip to Singapore, KL, or such, get a multi-entry on leaving. and then on return use just one of the multi-entries.

And that would leave the rest free. Don't see why. at least in theory, this wouldn't work.

A multi re-entry is good for the period of you extension, so if you had a one-year extension, and used the multi re-entry only once for the trip, you would already be good for the rest of that extension.

I doubt very much, if all the documents were correct. and you had the cash in your hot little hand, the immigration would much care if you asked for a single re-entry or a multi re-entry

What difference would it make to them?

[NavaJauvana]

Thanks, IMA_Farang. Your explanation does make sense about needing travel documents to get into the Immigration area where they have their Re-Entry Permit Booth. I have seen it there...and the last time i went thru Immigration outbound, they first have you go thru Security for your carry ons, and then go back downstairs to Immigration. Without a ticket, they probably will not let you go thru Security.

So i guess it's back to Chaengwattana for me. CW is open again, right?

The irony here is that i was very pleased with myself for havine saved some baht by getting the single entry Re-entry, and now it will cost me extra to get the multiple entry permit on top of the single entry!