Camerata's Guide To The Permanent Residence Process

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, mortenaa said:

I just asked the same question. No one has replied to my question yet.

Reports are showing that you cannot select Thailand as your country of residence, so I think we dont need to, as was also the case with TM6.

Perhaps email to division1.immigration@gmail.com  and ask for an instruction.

 

I've asked many questions on this email address, always got a clear answer in English, within about 3 to 5 days. 

[rimmae2]

13 hours ago, scorecard said:

Perhaps email to division1.immigration@gmail.com  and ask for an instruction.

 

I've asked many questions on this email address, always got a clear answer in English, within about 3 to 5 days. 

Last year I sent a mail to division1 about e gates and after several weeks received the following reply. I sent a mail to Division 2 but never received a reply.

 

'Please inquire with Immigration Division 2 directly.

Contact - Immigration Division 2

email : [email protected]'

[onthemoon]

I asked at Suvarnabhumi and wanted to register for e-gate, as I did with the previous incarnation of e-gates. They said, I must go to the PR section at CW, only they can register PR holders.

When I was at CW to renew my PR (sorry, get an endorsement), I was told they have nothing to do with the e-gates.

All is well organised, as we can see.

[onthemoon]

21 hours ago, Arkady said:

 

It would be in everyone's interest to issue a smart card for PRs but who knows, if they will ever get around to doing this.  The concept behind the red book when it was introduced following the first Immigration Act in 1927 was that it should act an alien ID document to help control the Chinese community who were difficult for Thai police and other authorities to track and many were believed to be involved with triad criminal organisations.  So it was ahead of its time to issue foreigners with ID docs they were supposed to carry everywhere because Thai citizens didn't get ID cards until after the first census of, I think, 1954.  Perhaps they still have substantial stocks of the red book blanks printed in 1927 they need to use up.

 

If they issued smart cards for ID, it would follow that the red books would have to be scrapped and pulped or burned, regardless of how much stock they still have.  Smart cards are issued by DOPA at district offices.  So the section at CW that does nothing by issue red books would be redundant.  So would the alien registration officer in each police station in Bangkok and maybe qutie upcountry whose job is just to sit there waiting for aliens to come in to have new books issued or renew old ones.  Of course district offices would not need to add any staff.  They are already issuing pink cards to PRs anyway.  So it would be a big staff saving and cracking of iron rice bowls of indolent civil servants that the police would fight tooth and nail to prevent or delay, since it is inevitable that it will happen one day.  Add to that the blue and white books that have been made redundant by immigration e-gates and another entire section of Pol Snr Sgt Majs at CW would be forced to play with their phones all day without interruption by the occasional PR.

 

Now they have other types of long term visa, they may as well issue smart cards for them too.  Indeed they could issue an ID card for NON-B visas too and stop giving expats the ridiculous pink non-smart cards that state the holder is not allowed to go out his district without permission of the district officer. 

 

If this were a private company, all this would have been done decades ago.

 

 

Let's see what happens when they run out of the red books that they printed in 1927 and are still distrubuting,