Yesterday I duly travelled to Kab Cheong immigration office to apply to extend again my visa based on retirement. The previous extension expires on 27th June 2006.

I had collected and collated two packages of the various documents in support of the application as I have done for the past four years.

However, upon addressing my documentation, the officer informed me that I didn't have sufficient pages of my passport copied. When asked why they needed more pages copied than I produced last year, the officer said "it is a new requirement".

Whilst obtaining the copies was no headache (a copy shop some 1 km down the road), I thought it may be of benefit to others to post my experience here.

For the past three applications, I produced copies of the following pages of my passport which was acceptable to immigration at those times:

Front page with photograph.

Page with first entry stamp into Thailand from when my first extension was calculated.

Page with latest entry stamp into Thailand (which was on the same page as my re-entry permit).

Page with my 2005/2006 extension.

Both sides of my most recent TM card.

The additional pages of which they required copies yesterday were:

Page with my original visa which I was extending (this appears logical).

Pages with my previous extensions, 2002/2003, 2003/2004 and 2004/2005.

Believe you were lucky earlier as this seems like the normal requirement. I copy front page, new passport data page, visa extension based on and everything after that plus the arrival card.

Thanks for the report as am sure it will save some of us an extra trip.

After I left immigration on Thursday, I rang a friend who I knew was intending to apply for his own visa extension the same afternoon. I told him of my experience. Luckily, he hadn't at that time left home and it came to light that he had changed his passport late last year. He therefore copied the necessary pages from his old passport and also took the old passport with him.

During the application process, the senior officer apparently took 20 minutes studying the old passport and eventually passed it back to him and requested a copy of every page of said passport. No specific reason was given. Obviously he complied with the request.

Edited June 24, 200620 yr by jayenram

Hi

Just extended my retirement stay yesterday (Jompthien).

I provided a copy of every endorsed page of the passport, plus the info. / photo page, plus the arrival card. Didn't bother with the blank pages. They were happy with this. Every copied page has to be signed and dated as a true copy, by the way, but you probably know this already.

DM

Every copied page has to be signed and dated as a true copy

On the front or the back of the page?

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Maestro

I have always signed the front but have never been requested to date them.

In my experience, every time I've provided a copy of anything to anybody, the copy had to be signed. I have never been asked to date them though.