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?

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.

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

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?

Edited June 9, 201412 yr by IMA_FARANG

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!